{"id":681921,"date":"2026-05-20T00:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T00:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/681921\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T00:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T00:50:08","slug":"jake-paul-just-teased-mvp-mma-2-and-ufc-retiree-colby-covington-favored-to-be-first-on-the-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/681921\/","title":{"rendered":"Jake Paul just teased MVP MMA 2 \u2014 and UFC retiree Colby Covington favored to be first on the card"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cIt\u2019s back to the drawing board for us, but we\u2019re ready to keep on going,\u201d Paul said at the MVP MMA 1 post-fight press conference<\/a> (via ESPN<\/a>). \u201cWe love doing this, and don\u2019t want to do anything that\u2019s mid like the UFC has been doing. We\u2019re always going to hold ourselves to a higher standard, and because of that, there might be fewer events, but we\u2019re going to do as many as we can. A lot of things were set up for us tonight. I stand here ready to go to war with the UFC using my followers and promotional ability. [UFC] knows it can\u2019t touch me.\u201d<\/p>\n

A second card requires a second batch of available fighters.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m excited about the amount of outreach we\u2019ve had inbound to us from current fighters, former fighters, future fighters and fighters with other promotions that shouldn\u2019t be calling us,\u201d Bidarian added. \u201cIf we can provide an alternative that\u2019s fighter-first, that\u2019s equitable, that has a great partner in distribution, why would fighters not want to work with us? We\u2019re not going to be piggish in our desire to have insane profit margins. We don\u2019t want to be in the business of losing money, but we don\u2019t need to make crazy amounts of money to create asset value. We want to be fair to the fighters and pay them what we believe they are worth, which is more than other promotions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Could former UFC welterweight title challenger Colby Covington be first to sign for MVP MMA 2?<\/p>\n

Until that gets sorted out, you can still watch Covington compete here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt\u2019s back to the drawing board for us, but we\u2019re ready to keep on going,\u201d Paul said at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":681922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,250320,85,1396],"class_list":["post-681921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-ronda-rousey-vs-gina-carano-netflix-news-hub","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681921","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=681921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}