{"id":613283,"date":"2026-04-17T16:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T16:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/613283\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T16:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T16:40:09","slug":"joe-rogan-on-why-netflix-can-make-mma-work-even-after-rousey-vs-carano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/613283\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Rogan on why Netflix can make MMA work even after Rousey vs Carano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Rogan has welcomed Netflix\u2019s move into the MMA space, calling it \u201cgood news\u201d for the sport.<\/p>\n<p>The streaming giant will air its first ever event on May 16, with a card promoted by Jake Paul\u2019s Most Valuable Promotions taking place at the Intuit Dome in Inglewood.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The main event features a high-profile matchup between Ronda Rousey and Gina Carano, while Francis Ngannou and Nate Diaz are also set to appear. The rest of the card includes several up-and-coming fighters looking to make their mark.<\/p>\n<p>No additional MMA events have been announced by Netflix so far, but Rogan believes they\u2019re well positioned to do more in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Rogan believes Netflix can find a formula for consistent MMA events<img alt=\"Photo by Jeff Bottari\/Zuffa LLC\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/d0c740c05ea5c39f8c93c7c204bd2625.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo by Jeff Bottari\/Zuffa LLC<\/p>\n<p>During a recent episode of his JRE MMA Show, UFC commentator Joe Rogan spoke about the streaming giant\u2019s move into MMA.<\/p>\n<p>Guest Din Thomas raised a good point, wondering how Netflix would sustain paying big names like Rousey, Diaz, and Ngannou over the long haul.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>While not claiming to be an expert on the business side of things, Rogan offered his thoughts on why Netflix might have the resources to stick around in the sport.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s exciting that Netflix is doing it. I like that there\u2019s another place people can go,\u201d Rogan said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere\u2019s the thing, it\u2019s Netflix. Netflix has an insane amount of money and they keep raking it in\u2026 They\u2019ve just gotta give people exciting things to want to watch and they\u2019ll keep making more money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The platform is already making its presence felt in boxing following Jake Paul\u2019s win over Mike Tyson back in November 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Canelo Alvarez\u2019s fight with Terence Crawford was among them, as well as Tyson Fury\u2019s return bout against Arslanbek Makhmudov.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Read more:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joe Rogan has welcomed Netflix\u2019s move into the MMA space, calling it \u201cgood news\u201d for the sport. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,29825,44069,2765,785,22147,435,15809,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-613283","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-francis-ngannou","12":"tag-gina-carano","13":"tag-joe-rogan","14":"tag-mma","15":"tag-nate-diaz","16":"tag-netflix","17":"tag-ronda-rousey","18":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613283","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=613283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}