Tens of millions of people tuned in to watch Saturday’s Most Valuable Promotions MMA card that featured the headlining matchup between Ronda Rousey and Gina Carano.<\/p>\n
“MVP’s first entry into MMA delivered on a massive global scale and exceeded every expectation we had for the launch of this new chapter of our business,” MVP co-founders Nakisa Bidarian and Jake Paul said Tuesday in a statement.<\/p>\n
“Over 12.4 million viewers around the world tuned in live on Netflix, with viewership peaking at almost 17 million during Rousey vs. Carano, making it one of the most-watched MMA events of all time. In the United States alone, the triple-main card averaged 9.3 million viewers and peaked at 11.6 million viewers during the main event, making it the most watched MMA event ever in the US.”<\/p>\n
With so many high-profile names returning to the sport, the high viewership numbers come as anything but a surprise.<\/p>\n
The biggest storyline was the fight between Rousey and Carano, although it didn’t last very long.<\/p>\n
Rousey defeated her opponent in just 17 seconds thanks to an armbar submission in a performance that was reminiscent of the peak of her career. The UFC Hall of Famer had not fought professionally since back-to-back losses seemed to end her career in 2015 and 2016, but Saturday marked a triumphant return to the sport.<\/p>\n
She was far from the only marquee name to enjoy quick success.<\/p>\n
Francis Ngannou handled Philipe Lins with relative ease in a first-round knockout and then added some drama to the Netflix broadcast when he called out Jon Jones:<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, Nate Diaz returned for his first MMA fight since September 2022 but did not enjoy the same type of success that Rousey and Ngannou did. Mike Perry notched a victory via a second-round TKO against Diaz after controlling the fight with his aggressive approach.<\/p>\n
Diaz was left bloodied by an open cut on his head, and a doctor stoppage ended the match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tens of millions of people tuned in to watch Saturday’s Most Valuable Promotions MMA card that featured the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":681841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-681840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681840","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=681840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}