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Streaming Glitches Delay Massively Hyped Mayweather-McGregor Boxing Match (cnet.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the knocked-out dept.

"After initial indications the main event would commence at 11:15 p.m ET, it didn't get started until nearly one hour later," reports Variety. An anonymous reader quotes CNET: Saturday's much hyped fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and UFC champion Conor McGregor drew fans from all walks of life, even those who'd never typically watch a standard boxing match. But when some of those fans settled in to watch the spectacle, beverage and snacks in hand, they found themselves in a world of hurt. Watching the fight wasn't cheap (nearly $100 on pay-per-view), so naturally, those who had technical issues as fight time neared -- on whatever platform -- were fighting mad. At 6:28 p.m. PT, as the undercard matches preceding the event aired, the UFC admitted on Twitter it was having technical issues with its Fight Pass streaming service due to the overwhelming interest in the bout.
ESPN confirms that the much-hyped event was "delayed due to pay-per-view outages."

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  1. glitch by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Who fucking cares.

    I wanna see two buffoons beat the shit out of each other all I have to do is look outside.

    And it's free.

    1. Re:glitch by PolygamousRanchKid+ · · Score: 4, Funny

      [If] I wanna see two buffoons beat the shit out of each other all I have to do is look outside.

      I can top that. I just look in a mirror.

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    2. Re:glitch by Trogre · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Yeah, I never did see the appeal in standing with a bunch of slack-jawed yokels watching to see who could inflict the most serious concussion on their opponent.

      Barbaric is what it is.

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  2. Re:$100? by 0100010001010011 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How the hell is that computer board worth 10 months of Netflix?

    How the hell is that spinny disk worth 10 months of Netflix?

    How the hell is that 3D printer worth 30 months of Netflix?

    People have different hobbies and interests. Do you have someone looking over your shoulder watching your spending habits?

  3. Re:$100? by dknj · · Score: 4, Informative

    did you watch the fight? it wasn't fake, it was blast from the past mayweather and mcgregor actually put up a good fight. this is what the pacquiao v mayweather fight should have looked like. fuck you "it's fake anyway". this ain't wrestling, son.

  4. glitches from sheer greed. by nimbius · · Score: 5, Informative

    Pay per view for this fight in america was over $100. seats at the arena went for more than five thousand dollars, and ringside was nearly $250,000. this fight was hyped for more than six months. content providers had metrics, they had every chance in the world to bolster their networks and increase server count. They did not, because from the get go this fight has been a test to see exactly how magnificently a handful of promoters and media moguls can fleece the average customer. You'll likely never see a refund for your 'online ticket.' as of right now, the fightpass servers are barely online with much of the page content timing out or flat out not connecting at all.

    Now, from experience, when my fightpass connection glitched out after the second round I was angry enough to put my laptop through a fucking wall. But after some diligent searching I found pirate streams that were just as good, if not better quality, than the $100 show I paid to see. These streams remained consistently reliable throughout the entire fight, and im sure the torrents of the fight are going to be consistently high quality as well.

    the industry needs to learn from this. the 'customers as an endless cash cow' model of Hollywood media is exactly what drove cable, CD music, and the theater movie experience into the fucking ground. Screw these streams up badly enough, screw over paying customers frequently enough, and the internet will quit caring about your streaming content entirely.

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    1. Re:glitches from sheer greed. by xlsior · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Pay per view for this fight in america was over $100. seats at the arena went for more than five thousand dollars, and ringside was nearly $250,000. this fight was hyped for more than six months. content providers had metrics, they had every chance in the world to bolster their networks and increase server count.

      And for comparison: In the UK they charged GBP 19.95 (~$25), while in the Netherlands it was aired as regular programming on the Fox Sports cable channel.

      They pretty much just charged what the (local) markets would be willing to bear.

    2. Re: glitches from sheer greed. by Gussington · · Score: 2

      without the ppv $$$$ we would have never seen this fight

      Of course we would. Because people like Macgregor and Mayweather exist in amateur ranks. There's a whole world of cocky young upstarts that love frighting purely for bragging rights. We might not have seen the private jets or the the Roll Royce's, but had there been no ppv we could still see two guys punching each other's light out every day of the week.

  5. And in case you were wondering the result by cyn1c77 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Mayweather won, but it went 10 rounds and was by the referee calling it.

    1. Re: And in case you were wondering the result by manofherb · · Score: 2

      like any boxing match when the guy is getting pummeled and can't defend themselves

    2. Re:And in case you were wondering the result by gravewax · · Score: 2

      The referee calling it? technically yes, but Conner was completely destroyed. Boxing has strict rules about when a match has to be called, when a boxer is no longer capable of defending themselves and is basically out on their feet it is over. Mayweather even though retired made Conner look like a complete joke.

    3. Re: And in case you were wondering the result by tommeke100 · · Score: 2

      right, and McGregor had a really hard time trying not to hold back the head bashing every time they got clinched. I'm pretty sure the ref could have disqualified him after the n-th time he did that.

    4. Re:And in case you were wondering the result by tommeke100 · · Score: 2

      If anything, we learned that McGregor can take a few punches in a boxing match. This is a welterweight class fight and McGregor is still a good fighter so he was likely not going to go down in 2 rounds. He tried using his range at first and Mayweather let him, waiting for him to get tired so he could get closer safely and start the actual boxing. McGregor was pretty much worthless at close range but since he could take the beating pretty well he managed to hang on for a few more rounds until he was just a wobbling punching bag (which he already was in the previous round and the ref could have called it quits there). So good call by the ref. The only thing McGregor could get in that fight was more brain damage.

    5. Re:And in case you were wondering the result by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2

      He played into Mayweather's hands and ended up looking like he was in over his head with inferior skill and inferior endurance.

      Mayweather is significantly older and and has been in retirement for 2 years. Yet, he was able to let Conor wind himself throwing weak punches and the finish the guy off according to the script he distributed before the fight.

      When a cat finishes off a mouse after toying with it, nobody is impressed that the mouse held off a superior opponent for an hour.

  6. Happened to me once by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I was overseas and wanted to watch the Superbowl. Hurray for drinking beer at 7:30am Monday morning! Tried and tried to use the legitimate NFL.com streaming to watch the game. It just would not work. I clicked submit and then it either timed out or went to a website error.

    I went to myp2p.eu and got the stream from there. Steady, reliable, and it even got the commercials which the NFL.com stream would have lacked. Superbowl is the one time a year I actually want to watch the commercials. Once again, the pirates provided a better service than the corporations.

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  7. Re: $100? by oobayly · · Score: 2

    I get the gist of what you're trying to say, but you choose some pretty bad examples. All of those last significantly longer than a month, not less.