Logan Paul promised to bring a huge audience to Showtime for his fight against Floyd Mayweather. Showtime wasn’t ready for it.

The company’s website and app crashed on Sunday night, a major outage during the most anticipated boxing match of 2021. The pay-per-view service stopped working shortly after 8pm US Eastern Time on Sunday night during an undercard fight, well before Paul or Mayweather took to the ring. Fans struggled to watch the fight throughout the evening, and many turned to illegal streams on the internet...

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