This happens a lot.
Many people say they aren’t going to do something, but end up doing it anyway.
My theory is Showtime believed most of the PPV would come from the traditional cable/satellite networks and maybe underestimated how many people are streaming these days and it caused this to happen according to Variety.
Strong demand for Sunday’s heavily promoted fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Logan Paul has caused outages for some consumers on Showtime’s PPV service and its streaming apps, the company said Sunday.
ViacomCBS’ premium network acknowledged “an issue impacting tonight’s PPV event as well as the Showtime and Showtime Anytime apps” in a Twitter message posted at 6:16 p.m. PT. The event dubbed “Bragging Rights” features the retired boxing champ and the disgraced YouTuber. The bout that sold for $49.99 started at 5 p.m. PT.
“We are aware that some customers have been having trouble accessing tonight’s Pay Per View event on Showtime.com. We are working diligently to resolve the issue and will redress customers appropriately,” Showtime said in a statement.
It will be curious what the PPV numbers will be.
Flip the pages for highlights from the fight.