{"id":836279,"date":"2026-07-31T19:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T19:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/836279\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T19:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T19:34:09","slug":"disinterested-dana-white-reacts-to-mvp-pfl-merger-wont-sell-tickets-and-nobody-will-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/836279\/","title":{"rendered":"Disinterested Dana White reacts to MVP-PFL merger \u2014 \u2018Won\u2019t sell tickets and nobody will watch\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cI don\u2019t know anything about what they\u2019re doing,\u201d White told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Y6Mn9e2_ZJk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">The Mac Life<\/a>. \u201cIt probably makes sense when shit isn\u2019t working for anybody, they should all probably get together. Let\u2019s take two organizations that don\u2019t sell tickets and nobody watches and let\u2019s merge them together and make a bigger company that won\u2019t sell tickets and nobody will watch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cListen, I\u2019ve said this a hundred times and I\u2019m f\u2014\u2014 around,\u201d White added. \u201cI don\u2019t look at any of those guys as our competition. We\u2019re on a whole other f\u2014\u2014 stratosphere now. I mean, I\u2019m competing with all the majors. Those guys aren\u2019t my competition so good luck to them all. I wish them all the best.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">MVP did a one-off MMA event on Netflix back in May, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ronda-rousey-gina-carano-netflix-latest-news-odds-results-mma\/444998\/rousey-vs-carano-smashes-records-peaks-at-17-million-netflix-viewers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">to great success<\/a>, and PFL is currently airing its MMA product on ESPN. That said, Paul and Co. have yet to find a streaming home for their new endeavor, which could prove to be a major factor in how much (if any) competition they pose to UFC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI don\u2019t know anything about what they\u2019re doing,\u201d White told The Mac Life. \u201cIt probably makes sense when&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":836280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,8081,85,1396],"class_list":["post-836279","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-professional-fighters-league-pfl","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836279","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=836279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/836280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}