{"id":499903,"date":"2026-02-24T00:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T00:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/499903\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T00:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T00:55:08","slug":"espns-new-sunday-night-plan-netflix-chosing-interesting-path-into-mma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/499903\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPN\u2019s new Sunday night plan; Netflix chosing interesting path into MMA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-media \">ESPN has a few Sunday night spring\/summer windows to fill now that MLB is no longer there, and the network announced it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/02\/19\/espn-to-launch-womens-sports-sundays-in-summer-primetime-slot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/02\/19\/espn-to-launch-womens-sports-sundays-in-summer-primetime-slot\/\">will be putting higher-profile WNBA and NWSL games<\/a> on many of those Sunday night slots. It\u2019s a big positive for women\u2019s sports, and reflects what ION has been doing for years now with the WNBA and NWSL on Friday and Saturday nights, respectively (dedicated windows for both). But while a good WNBA game may be able to match a normal \u201cSunday Night Baseball\u201d audience, don\u2019t expect any NWSL game to hit that sort of number.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-media \">Netflix is getting into the live MMA space with a matchup that seems to resemble something closer to a celebrity boxing match or Alex Honnold\u2019s recent tower climb vs. a serious sporting event. The Netflix MMA foray will feature <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/02\/17\/netflix-lands-rousey-carano-for-mma-debut-as-streamer-stays-bullish-on-live-events\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ronda Rousey against Gina Carano<\/a> on May 16, and the truth is neither has fought in a long, long time. But Netflix certainly loves big events, and this will qualify. I wouldn\u2019t expect this fight to be Nielsen-measured, either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ESPN has a few Sunday night spring\/summer windows to fill now that MLB is no longer there, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,794,786,785,435,39623,85,5941],"class_list":["post-499903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-espn","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-netflix","tag-nwsl","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}