{"id":692024,"date":"2026-05-24T19:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T19:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/692024\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T19:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T19:17:09","slug":"white-mcgregor-holloway-reveal-had-nothing-to-do-with-mvp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/692024\/","title":{"rendered":"White: McGregor-Holloway reveal had nothing to do with MVP \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

UFC CEO Dana White insists the announcement of Conor McGregor’s blockbuster return fight wasn’t meant to overshadow Most Valuable Promotions’ inaugural MMA event on Netflix last weekend.<\/p>\n

“I had a f—–g fight here that night,” White told Fred Talks Fighting<\/a>. “Anybody who thinks that I gave a shit what was going on anywhere else is out of their f—–g minds.”<\/p>\n

MVP MMA 1 featured several high-profile MMA stars, including a main event between Ronda Rousey and Gina Carano. Mike Perry, Nate Diaz, and former UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou also appeared on the card.<\/p>\n

However, while Ngannou walked to the cage to face Philipe Lins during the Netflix event, White announced a welterweight bout between McGregor and Max Holloway at UFC 329 on July 11. McGregor, a former two-division champion, hasn’t fought since 2021.<\/p>\n

Many in the MMA world speculated that White tried to steal the spotlight from the MVP’s card with his announcement on social media.<\/p>\n

“We announced it as soon as we got it done, and we were in the middle of our event. I don’t give a f–k what those guys are doing,” White added.<\/p>\n

MVP said that an estimated 12.4 million people tuned in for its MMA event, with viewership peaking at almost 17 million during Rousey-Carano. According to the promotion, the card was the United States’ most-watched MMA event ever, averaging 9.3 million viewers and peaking at 11.6 million.<\/p>\n

Rousey, a UFC Hall of Famer returning from a 10-year layoff, submitted Carano with an armbar 17 seconds into the fight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC CEO Dana White insists the announcement of Conor McGregor’s blockbuster return fight wasn’t meant to overshadow Most…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":692025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-692024","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\/692024","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=692024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}