Dana White was briefly left red-faced by a technical flub because the international stream for his debut boxing event was shut down by its own broadcaster.
Zuffa Boxing 1, headlined by Callum Walsh vs Carlos Ocampo, is the promotion’s official first event, and kicks off a ground-breaking broadcast cope with Paramount+. The streamer aired the show within the US and UK, but international fans were in a position to watch on a free YouTube stream.
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Unfortunately for White’s promotion, wires were crossed behind the scenes and the official broadcast on Zuffa Boxing’s YouTube channel was hit with a copyright claim by the broadcaster.
For around 20 minutes, viewers needed to migrate over to a special stream on the UFC’s YouTube channel with the intention to catch the important event.
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Fans express annoyance as Zuffa Boxing stream is shut down by embarrassing claim
As the ultimate punches were being thrown between Julian Rodriguez and Cain Sandoval within the opening bout of the Zuffa Boxing 1 important card, fans watching internationally had their YouTube stream cut out of nowhere.
Paramount are the exclusive broadcasters of the show in America, but international fans in regions with out a broadcast deal were in a position to watch totally free on YouTube. That was until a message showed up on screen that read: “This video isn’t any longer available because of a copyright claim by Paramount.”
One country where the stream was affected was Ireland, where important event star Walsh is from. And viewers were left frustrated, taking to social media to air their grievances in the shape of tweets and Instagram comments.
“Yo @Zuffa_Boxing @paramountplus just put a copyright block in your YouTube channel livestream outside the US,” one fan wrote. “WTAF!!!??? [What The Actual F—]” One other commented that it was a ‘f—ing disgrace’.
One other commenter tagged the promotion and Paramount wrote: “Fix your stream. It has literally said video unavailable almost 10 times because the start of the important card.”
When the stream was reinstated, the primary message within the live chat read: “I can’t consider they DMCA’d the official channel lol.” In response, one other chatter wrote: “Ikr [I know right]? LOL they need to be silly.”
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