{"id":637156,"date":"2026-04-29T21:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T21:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/637156\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T21:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T21:30:08","slug":"defiant-ufc-headliners-up-against-rousey-vs-carano-suggest-fans-will-ditch-boring-netflix-card-to-watch-a-real-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/637156\/","title":{"rendered":"Defiant UFC headliners up against \u2018Rousey vs. Carano\u2019 suggest fans will ditch \u2018boring\u2019 Netflix card to \u2018watch a real fight\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cThe fact it\u2019s me and Melky headlining against them, I don\u2019t think UFC is really trying to compete,\u201d Allen said on <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/l48hwzBCxAE?si=8BSItO2KlM81U5LT\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Ariel Helwani Show.<\/a> \u201cNot trying to put me and Melky down, but let\u2019s be real: star power. Like, they ain\u2019t trying to compete. They\u2019re not going to try to compete with that. I don\u2019t think they really care. I know [fans] have a vested interest in it, but I know what fight I\u2019d rather watch. I\u2019m not going to talk sh*t, but let\u2019s be real. This is two guys in our primes, at the height of MMA. It\u2019s at Meta APEX. That kind of blows, but the fight itself is sick.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cIt\u2019s simple, when you see those boring fights going on, you\u2019ll change the channel and watch a real fight,\u201d Costa added on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MelkCostaCauthy\/status\/2049258515995226591\" rel=\"nofollow\">social media<\/a>. \u201cWithout even realizing it, they\u2019ve prepared the ground for us. See you on the 16th.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In the immortal words of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=K9F5xcpjDMU\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Black Sheep<\/a>, the choice is yours! You can get with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-fight-cards\/433153\/its-on-ufc-counter-programming-answer-rousey-vs-carano-fight-card-may-16\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a>, or you can get with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ronda-rousey-gina-carano-netflix-latest-news-odds-results-mma\/429661\/rousey-vs-carano-fight-card-start-time-date-and-location-netflix\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">that<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe fact it\u2019s me and Melky headlining against them, I don\u2019t think UFC is really trying to compete,\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,197642,82,139445,702,4454],"class_list":["post-637156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-ronda-rousey-vs-gina-carano-netflix-news-hub","tag-sports","tag-ufc-on-paramount","tag-ufc-news","tag-upcoming-ufc-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}