{"id":684590,"date":"2026-05-21T06:09:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T06:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/684590\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T06:09:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T06:09:13","slug":"jake-paul-planning-another-mma-event-after-rousey-carano-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/684590\/","title":{"rendered":"Jake Paul Planning Another MMA Event After Rousey-Carano Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/MixCollage-21-May-2026-12-20-AM-162.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24037804\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">\u00a9 Kirby Lee-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>Jake Paul\u2019s MVP promotion believes it has a future in the MMA space after the success of its Rousey-Carano event.<\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, MVP MMA broke the record for the most-watched MMA event in the U.S. with their Rousey-Carano card that aired live on Netflix.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RouseyCarano?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#RouseyCarano<\/a> numbers are in. 12.4 million globally, peaking at 17 million \u2014 11.6 million for the main event in the U.S. According to the numbers, it was the most watched MMA event ever in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mike Heck (@MikeHeck_JR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeHeck_JR\/status\/2056844503827329359?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 19, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Paul\u2019s business partner and MVP co-founder Nakisa Bidarian spoke to Ariel Helwani about continuing in the MMA space following the success of the Rousey-Carano event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c100%, MVP is in the MMA business. There\u2019s a clear opportunity to create an alternative avenue for fighters that truly represents the best of the sport and is fighters first. Our hope is that\u2019s with our partners at Netflix.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Nakisa Bidarian: 100%, MVP is in the MMA business. There\u2019s a clear opportunity to create an alternative avenue for fighters that truly represents the best of the sport and is fighters first. Our hope is that\u2019s with our partners at Netflix. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HelwaniShow?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#HelwaniShow<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/a4yu8tFhe8\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/a4yu8tFhe8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jed I. Goodman \u00a9 (@jedigoodman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jedigoodman\/status\/2057159234475970856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 20, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bidarian said they would be interested in doing something with Conor McGregor, who has two fights left on his UFC contract.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the day comes that Conor McGregor is a free agent, we will do everything in our power to work with him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Nakisa Bidarian on Conor McGregor: If the day comes that Conor McGregor is a free agent, we will do everything in our power to work with him.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HelwaniShow?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#HelwaniShow<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nwl5O3ZoMd\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/nwl5O3ZoMd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jed I. Goodman \u00a9 (@jedigoodman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jedigoodman\/status\/2057165089166541236?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 20, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a9 Kirby Lee-Imagn Images Jake Paul\u2019s MVP promotion believes it has a future in the MMA space after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,9225,785,85],"class_list":["post-684590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-jake-paul","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684590","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=684590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}