Why, then, all the excitement about Netflix's coming for live sports? First, there was Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul, a fight more memorable for Tyson's bare-butt interview and incessant buffering issues than the result itself.

Folding the World Cup — long the final bastion of free-to-view soccer — into a subscription service could limit viewership

Netflix is continuing to gain exluisive rights to sporting events. Most recently thestreaming giant has secured the U.S. rights of the 2027 & 2031 Women's World Cup