UFC Stream Not Working: ESPN responds to UFC 257 Conor McGregor vs Dustin Poirier 2 Live stream inaccessibility following technical issues.
Dana White has had egg on his face following technical issues in the ESPN+ streaming service, preventing many from enjoying the pay per view. Social Media has been flooded with complaints regarding the pay per view and how they were unable to access the app.
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The UFC president had earlier claimed that they were going to come down heavily on illegal streamers. Unfortunately, the only way to legally stream the pay per view suffered from an outage. This meant that there was no legal way to watch the pay per view.
ESPN responds to UFC 257 Live stream inaccessibility following technical issues
Many soon realized that their UFC 257 stream was not working, The Athletic’s Richard Deitsch emailed ESPN’s PR regarding the issues.
“We are aware of an issue impacting some fans’ ability to access to tonight’s PPV event and are working to resolve it as quickly as possible,” ESPN responded to him.
Regarding the ESPN+ issues tonight for UFC 257. I emailed ESPN PR. Here is what I just got back.
“We are aware of an issue impacting some fans’ ability to access to tonight’s PPV event and are working to resolve it as quickly as possible.”
— Richard Deitsch (@richarddeitsch) January 24, 2021
The issues have since resolved. Not many however, will be pleased at forking out 70 dollars for a pay per view they couldn’t enjoy from start to finish. The only consolation in all of this is that the issue did not creep up during the much awaited main event rematch between Conor McGregor and Dustin Poirier.
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