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Streaming Glitches Delay Massively Hyped Mayweather-McGregor Boxing Match (cnet.com) 186

Posted by EditorDavid 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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Streaming Glitches Delay Massively Hyped Mayweather-McGregor Boxing Match

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  • if you had dierctv same price for higher bit rate and it can serve all customers at the same time.

  • glitch (Score:4, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 26, 2017 @11:47PM (#55091797)

    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.

    • Re:glitch (Score:5, Funny)

      by PolygamousRanchKid ( 1290638 ) on Sunday August 27, 2017 @01:59AM (#55092043)

      [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.

    • Re:glitch (Score:4, Insightful)

      by Trogre ( 513942 ) on Sunday August 27, 2017 @03:04AM (#55092171) Homepage

      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.

    • Ah, I had also managed to completely ignore it.

      Let me check..
      Mayweather wins.. I guess that means something to someone (and if you didnt want to know, I dont give a shit)

      And my wallet is not $100 lighter, which is the best outcome.

      Yes, got to keep the rabble entertained somehow, apparently.

      • Re: (Score:1)

        by Anonymous Coward

        Let me check.. Mayweather wins.. I guess that means something to someone (and if you didnt want to know, I dont give a shit)

        Thanks for that super aggressive parenthetical comment. I guess you're trying to demonstrate that you're some kind of badass even though you didn't watch the fight like most of the other alphas did?

        And my wallet is not $100 lighter, which is the best outcome.

        That's fantastic, especially since your wallet likely didn't have $100 in it to start with. Leave the expensive entertainment to the guys who have the cash to afford it. Also, nobody, but nobody, drops $100 to watch this. You have a watch party and invite over 5-10 buddies.

        Yes, got to keep the rabble entertained somehow, apparently.

        Yes, people need entertainment to be

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by murdocj ( 543661 )

        Well, at least you can feel superior, that's something. Same way I feel when guys on slashdot start ranting about which which GUI they use.

      • It is fascinating how this story has triggered all the classist buffoons and brought them out on parade.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by dcw3 ( 649211 )

        If you don't enjoy MMA or Boxing, why the fuck are you even commenting. My double-MBA wife (the rabble) bought $40 tickets for our date night, We watched on the big screen from huge recliners, and in of my low expectations or Connor, he put up a decent fight for the first few rounds until he got gassed, which was part of Mayweather's plan.

        Connor's longer reach, and his ability with the jab, and counterpunching won him the first few rounds, but he wasn't able to hurt Floyd with the few good punches he got

  • Clearly we have angered the Gods (Score:1, Insightful)

    by Anonymous Coward

    I demand a return to real bloodsport, where grievances are settled on the sands of the Arena, with the blessings of the Emperor and Almighty Iupiter, as our forefathers did.

    This will surely improve our lives, strengthening us so we no longer fear death, and demonstrating to our enemies how mighty we are.

    • mayweather went from a busted ass house as a kid to making 300 million + in a night

    • I demand a return to real bloodsport, where grievances are settled on the sands of the Arena, with the blessings of the Emperor and Almighty Iupiter, as our forefathers did.

      That's more or less what we've got right now with terrorists. Except the swords are used on the asphalt of European cities. And the chariots have been replaced with white rental mini-vans.

      Although, the massive public interest in this Mayweather-McGregor spectacle has got me wondering. Obviously, it wasn't a "Boxing Match", since, when push comes to shove (haw, haw), McGregor isn't a boxer. But a "grievance" was hyped up, and a lot of folks appeared to be willing to pay lots of money to watch the "griev

    • Spartacus was awesome. Highly recommend.

  • The fight I really want to see (Score:1, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward

    is creimer against a cheeseburger.

  • If you can put up with the kid running OBS trying to get subscriptions tabbing out of the stream every so often to splash "SUBSCRIBE" across the screen and 15fps at 320x240 it wasn't 1/2 bad. Course he'll get shutdown by morning for copyright violation.

  • Comment removed (Score:5, Informative)

    by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) on Sunday August 27, 2017 @12:05AM (#55091845)
    Comment removed based on user account deletion

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

      • 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.

      • Re: glitches from sheer greed. (Score:1)

        by Anonymous Coward

        you could have found some dudes williing to fight for 1 /100 the price and had a great match.

        it was promotional trolling brilliance and betting companies made zillions.

    • Re:glitches from sheer greed. (Score:5, Insightful)

      by xlsior ( 524145 ) on Sunday August 27, 2017 @01:58AM (#55092039)

      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.

    • $99.99 is less than $100, not more. Why fucking lie in your first sentence and lose any credibility? Now everything you say may be exaggerated and not worth reading.

      • Re: (Score:1)

        by Anonymous Coward

        $99.99 is less than $100, not more.

        $99.99 + tax > $100

  • And in case you were wondering the result (Score:5, Informative)

    by cyn1c77 ( 928549 ) on Sunday August 27, 2017 @12:12AM (#55091857)

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

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

    • 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.
      • Pretty much played out as expected. Mayweather let him go for a few rounds to figure him out, then dismantled him piece by piece as he ran out ideas and energy.
        This should be a lesson for rednecks who think outsiders would do a better job than the experts. Experts are experts because they are the best at what they do. No amount of wishful thinking changes this fact...

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by jon3k ( 691256 )
        Going 10 rounds with one of the greatest boxers in history, and winning rounds, makes you a "complete joke" ?

        • Re: (Score:2)

          by Anonymous Coward

          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.

        • The fight was very one sided. Conner may have lasted 10 rounds but he did basically let Mayweather dictate the entire fight and it went exactly as Mayweather predicted. Conner did no real damage in the first few rounds and was exhausted because he threw way to many punches that didn't land or did no lasting damage, allowing Mayweather to pick him apart. It was an demonstration of how a professional boxer does it, no risks, careful execution of plan and total control. I would say he really only lasted 5 roun

          • Re: (Score:2)

            by jon3k ( 691256 )
            Conor won more than one round, as many as 3-4 by some estimates. Conor was also never in danger until the 10th round when he got tired. Everyone knew going in that conditioning would be the big question and Mayweather did exactly what he needed to. This is a FAR cry from making him look like a joke. Mayweather could didn't land anything significant until probably the 7th round.
            • you need to learn something about boxing. Conor was in serious trouble by the 5th round as he had expended huge amounts of energy for no return. By the end of the 5th round this fight was over bar the shouting.

              • Re: (Score:2)

                by jon3k ( 691256 )
                The reality is he went 10 rounds with one of the greatest living boxers. No legitimate voice in the professional boxing community is calling him a joke. In fact, it's just the opposite [sbnation.com]. Every real boxing fan is surprised by how well McGregor was able to do against a real boxer like Mayweather.
                • picking a generic sports reporter as your proof of what the boxing world thought really??? Here is what the boxing world really thought, an excellent article basically a good effort but he was completely outclassed in every department.

                  http://www.boxing.com/mayweath... [boxing.com]
                  "In any case, “Notorious” was gassed, red-faced and full of exhaustion long before the end came in round ten. His jab was null and void. He was visibly breathing through his mouth. The maximum one can fight in a UFC contest is tw

                  • Re: (Score:2)

                    by jon3k ( 691256 )

                    before the end came in round TEN .

                    Many had the bout much closer than a near shutout, especially in the earlier rounds.

                    https://www.si.com/boxing/2017... [si.com]

                    For the first few rounds, Conor McGregor, the UFC fighter, looked like a boxer. A competent boxer. Dare we say, even a good boxer. He looked like he might even do what he had been telling us heâ(TM)d do for the last three months: beat Mayweather at his own sport, outbox one of the best boxers of all time. In the first round Mayweather threw five total punches. McGregor charged forward, looking like he wanted to make good on his promise that heâ(TM)d drop Mayweather in the first round. He put his arms behind his back, taunting Mayweather. He threw jabs and landed them. He countered a Mayweather attack with an uppercut, something that very few professional boxers have ever done. The vastly pro-McGregor crowd broke out in an olé chant, thinking their hero was going to do the impossible, again, just like he told them he would.

                    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0... [nytimes.com] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0... [nytimes.com] https://www.forbes.com/sites/b... [forbes.com]

                    None of the shots McGregor landed seemed to hurt Mayweather, but the success the Irishman experienced was more than many boxing pundits thought he could enjoy. Mayweather stayed composed throughout the fight and gradually turned up the heat beginning in the fourth round Until you can find a professional analyst who claims McGregor "looked like a joke" we'll just have to agree to disagree.

                    • Until you can find a professional analyst who claims McGregor "looked like a joke" we'll just have to agree to disagree

                      challenge accepted
                      https://www.boxinginsider.com/columns/mayweather-vs-mcgregor-party-finally/
                      "McGregor was terrible, and although we knew he couldn’t box, I was amazed at how bad he really was."

        • To be fair, the corner stool with a towel on it could have won those first three rounds. They were giveaways, not earned.

          • Re: (Score:2)

            by jon3k ( 691256 )
            Mayweather was just executing his game plan which was not to expend any energy and he did it perfectly. Conor performed surprisingly well. Certainly a far cry from looking like "a joke". That's absurd. He went 10 rounds with Floyd Mayweather. Suggesting otherwise is ludicrous.

    • A damn shame. For the money he's pocketed, he should have been beaten good.

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by Anonymous Coward

      Result:

      A 40 year old smaller man with arthritic hands and much shorter arms beat the world's cockiest 29 year old UFC money fighter. 29 year old managed to gas out starting about round 5 of a 12 round fight. 29 year old bigger man left with black eye, swollen ear, swollen and stuffed up nose after being pummeled by 40 year old small man. 40 year old small man left looking better than he did at weigh ins.

      The only thing really good to come of this? MMA fighters will end up under an extension of the Ali A

    • 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 w

  • 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,

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by Wolfrider ( 856 )

      --Seriously, this is 2017 and streaming to huge crowds isn't a Solved Problem yet? Aren't they supposed to be able to add more cloud servers dynamically for anticipated loads, or something?? Good God youse guys, get your sh*t together... $100 is Serious Money for a lot of people, especially to see a single event--!

  • I really hate it when my fight didnâ(TM)t get streamed on time.

  • what the attraction is of watching one man hit another ? People wail when terrorists drive lorries into crowds but then cheer when someone smashes his fist into another man's face. I don't understand ?

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by Dr. Evil ( 3501 )

      It's a primate thing. Not much we can do about it.

      The real mystery to me is why we don't care.

      There's some consolation to me that they're "sportsmen". If Mayweather crippled McGregor, people would be sad about it. No parallel with random hate and violence.

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by Anonymous Coward

      The ability to test one's strength and endurance. Do I have the capability to take or avoid a hit and return the favor? There's a hell of a lot of work that a person has to put in to be able to defend themselves and fight back and that's what it's all about. The mutual agreement of saying, "Let's fight out who the stronger and more skillful person is."

      Stop looking at it so simply, you high-and-mighty jackass.

    • I don't watch boxing, but I can understand its attraction. It's the same reason sports are popular (and in particular why judged sports like figure skating are often criticized). Theories, talk, arguments about which team or boxer is better don't count for anything. You're conclusively resolving the debate with a pure head-to-head confrontation. Any theory about whose strategy will be more successful is immediately and with finality validated, or is shot down.

      It differs from terrorism and criminal vi
    • Comment removed based on user account deletion

  • Slightly off topic, I didn't watch this stream in particular. Why do sports streams always start glitching and lagging just as the action culminates? Like, just before there's a goal in football (soccer), and even when the time is running out in chess! Surely, not a lot of people are tuning in just then. If it's a variable bitrate stream, requiring more bandwidth for the fast action, that still doesn't explain it -- surely their streaming platform should be able to manage the overall bandwidth. Is it just a

  • At what point will ISPs open up multicasting to the home? I'm sure the organizers used MC to get to distribution servers but everything from there to the end users is still unicast. I was working during the fight and our multicast to the edge modulator in the headend did just fine. I'm sure they'll point out that events like the Super Bowl will tax their edge routers but what about an event like this? I'm sure it was popular, but still a small fraction of users.

  • What a joke...oh well, suckers born every day I guess. SPORTS...waste of time & money, but, at least it ain't my money.

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