It wasn't boxing's finest moment, but Jake Paul showed in his bout with Mike Tyson that he knows how to use attention in a social media world.

A post on X claims that Mike Tyson and Jake Paul were banned from boxing after their November fight aired on Netflix. Verdict: Misleading They received a standard 24 day mandatory rest period, and no wrongdoing was cited.

"Sixty million Americans were hyped to see 'Iron' Mike Tyson ... What they saw was 'The Baddest Streaming on the Planet," the suit reads.

One man who believes that theory is former world champion Carl Froch, who told GiveMeSport that he thinks Tyson was instructed not to fight properly.

Jake Paul and Mike Tyson have been suspended from boxing after their superfight on Netflix. However, it isn’t going to last too long for either of them.

Despite widespread issues with video quality and buffering, Netflix’s live-streamed Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul boxing match brought in an average of 108 million viewers, based on TVision data in the US and first-party data in global markets.

The inability of Netflix to deliver an acceptable and consistent experience during the Jake Paul real-world boxing fantasy camp featuring Mike Tyson has already spawned litigation.

According to Variety, Netflix reported that drew 108 million viewers worldwide and that it was the “most streamed global sporting event ever.”

"60 million Americans were hyped to see ‘Iron’ Mike Tyson, ‘The Baddest Man on the Planet’ versus Youtuber-turner-prizefighter Jake Paul. What they saw was ‘The Baddest Streaming on Planet,’" reads the lawsuit.

An image of boxing legend Mike Tyson posing with a Palestinian flag in the ring shared on social media is a fake, according to a Tyson spokesperson and Netflix, and experts told Reuters the image was probably generated using AI.