The fight attracted a huge amount of media coverage. Tyson is one of the most famous men on the planet, while Paul drew in a younger audience. According to Paul, 120 million viewers watched it live globally on Netflix. The tech firm has said it will reveal further viewing figures on Tuesday.

Then we threw up. This is a long way of saying I’ve had worse ideas than staying awake past midnight Friday to watch a glitchy stream of Mike Tyson losing a one-sided boxing match to the YouTube goofball Jake Paul.

The streaming company announced Saturday that 60 million people tuned in for its heavily anticipated Mike Tyson-Jake Paul Friday night at AT&T Stadium. But scores of fans complained throughout the broadcast that their stream froze or crashed.