Ronda Rousey vs. Gina Carano | NETFLIX - May 16, 2026

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Ronda Rousey interrupts Carano camp to campaign for new California fighters' pension fund bill

Ronda Rousey is in the middle of training for her Netflix-streamed comeback fight May 16 versus Gina Carano, and one of her children wasn’t feeling well Monday morning, either.

Yet Rousey made the trek through the teeth of Southland traffic to speak in support of California Assembly Bill 2130, which proposes approval of sponsorship contracts and proceeds from the creation of a new designer license plate to further support the state’s Boxer’s Pension Fund and Mixed Martial Arts Retirement Benefit Fund.

““I’ve been so fortunate. It seems wrong to just take and take … I’m in the fortunate position to speak up and bring attention to these things and make sure people don’t forget about the fighters while they’re fighting,” Rousey told Boxing Scene at the event attended by the bill’s author, Assemblymember Matt Haney (D-San Francisco), California State Athletic Commission Executive Officer Andy Foster and longtime UFC referee Herb Dean.

Rousey’s mother, AnnMaria De Mars, a CSAC commissioner, also attended.

“I feel like that’s one of the reasons I’ve had so much success, and fortunate enough to be raised by someone who taught me to not have a ‘fornicate you, I’ve got mine’ attitude,” Rousey said. “I feel like if everyone had less of that and gave back, the world would be a little bit of a better place. So I’m trying to do what I was raised to do.”

Following bipartisan support for the related pension and retirement funds, the bill is set to be introduced to the Assembly’s Business and Professions Committee and Arts and Sports Entertainment Committee next week, and could reach Governor Gavin Newsom for signing by September to take effect on January 1, 2027.

It’s logical that the state will reach out to fight-enthusiast business people, making Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg a likely early contact for the athletic commission, which will allow for company advertising on the back of referee shirts.

Haney reminded of the impact of such promotion, knowing that Rousey-Carano, which will be staged at the Intuit Dome in Inglewood, California, will have “millions and millions of eyes on it” thanks to Netflix.

Should the CSAC be able to generate $1 million in advertising and license-plate sales each year for 20 years, the coffer would rise through interest to an estimated $25.4 million, distributing anywhere from $100,000 to $300,000 to boxers and MMA fighters who reach the age of 50.

Rousey, the UFC’s former bantamweight champion who parlayed her fame to a WWE career, spoke to the importance of the support.

“You have a very short shelf [life] in this sport. It’s very hard, very intense on your body, and the amount of strain you [endure] is more or the same as the amount you’d put on yourself in a 40- to 50-year career behind a desk,” she said.

“It’s condensed into a shorter amount of time and the marks and effects on your body mean you might not be able to go into a different career. You won’t be able to go into the military or certain trades if you’re carrying the effects of a career like this.

“It should be considered a smart career path, and not a gamble to try and be a fighter – and there should be a viable path forward for people who want to try it for a living.

“Not everyone is going to make it, not everyone is going to be a champion, and not every champion is going to get paid the way I do. That doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be able to make a living or afford retirement or their medical expenses.”

Foster, who oversaw the distribution of an average of $21,000 per fighter in boxer pensions, said every state that presents combat should look to emulate this model.

“This bill will do more to help retired fighters than any bill that has been put forward for fighters anywhere in the world,” said Foster, who has also advocated for Zuffa Boxing’s push for a revised Ali Act in boxing.

In regard to possible resistance to the bill, someone mentioned Zuffa Boxing and its MMA sibling company, UFC, but an official familiar with the situation said not to expect objection from the UFC or Zuffa, which clothe their fighters thanks to lucrative apparel deals.

“The Governor, Senate and Assembly have a deep respect for fighters. Everyone has been so supportive, This is going to help our fighters immensely,” Foster said.

Haney detailed that 75% of the funds will be set aside for fighters, with the remainder being earmarked for fight officials (referees) and support staff.

“If you care about fighters in this state, you should care about the people who make it possible, who put their blood, sweat, tears and resources – with family and friends making all sacrifices,” Haney said. “We should care about the people who do that, and that’s what we’re asking the state of California to do – with no taxpayer dollars. The prospects are good.”

Fighters will gain eligibility to receive funds from California if they have fought 75 boxing rounds or 39 MMA rounds in California, which is the nation’s busiest combat sports state.

If an active fighter has already compiled rounds in the state and then surpasses the round limit upon the approval of this law, they will be eligible for the support at age 50, Foster said.

“I just wish we had thought of this sooner,” Foster said.

Following so many tales of veteran fighters falling on hard times financially and struggling with health issues in their later years, Rousey said, “A sad ending shouldn’t be the cliche.

“A lot of times you don’t know if you’ve taken one hit too many until decades later, and you won’t feel the effects of your injuries until the time you’re not making that money anymore, and you haven’t planned for it.”

Dean, who formerly trained with a UFC 1 fighter, said pointedly, “I thought the compensation would catch up and be here by now to support the fighters, but it hasn’t.

“[Fighters] have given us so many great moments to inspire us, and it should not look [sad] at the end of the day.”

Rousey’s familiarity with the financial vulnerability of fighters dates to the “six-figures” support provided by her mother caravaning her to judo practices and tournaments throughout Southern California as a youth, only to win an Olympic bronze medal in 2008, receive $10,000 that she was taxed 50% on, and use the remainder to invest in a used 2005 Honda Accord that she wound up sleeping in on some nights.

“I have experienced it firsthand. We didn’t do it for monetary reasons, but that’s a shame,” Rousey said. “It actually blocks a lot of people out. … When we expand opportunities, more people are free to access the sport.”

Rousey, 39, ultimately became the first women’s fighter signed by UFC, winning the first women’s title fight in 2012 and reigning through five title defenses while reaching the organization’s height of popularity – and its Hall of Fame – thanks to both her famed armbar and refreshing candor.

“Combat sports is the best thing to ever happen to my life – my personal development, my professional life. I’ve been able to affect the world in the best way I can because of it and I want everybody who wants it to pursue their dream without it being a detriment to their professional prospects,” Rousey said Monday.

“There’s also a village that goes into every fighter – training partners, coaches. We need them. Those people need to be supported. Not everybody’s going to be a champion, but everybody contributes to the outcomes and should be compensated fairly.”

Rousey made eye contact with Haney, Foster and her mother while saying, “It’s really encouraging to see there are people who really care, and we have people within the Assembly who really see us.

“It’s easy for us to feel ignored when we’re not under the lights. This is the kind of work that’s not as glamorous and I really appreciate all the people here for taking the time and caring about the fighters who aren’t fighting anymore.

“This is the way we allow this sport to grow and thrive, and contribute to California even more in the future.”

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Tonight.

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MVP’S VISION FOR WOMEN’S BOXING IS ROOTED IN ROUSEY

Jake Paul’s Most Valuable Promotions has been making massive waves in women’s boxing in the last year by signing stars and brokering top-shelf media rights deals to showcase its roster of 50 female fighters, 17 of whom are active champions.

The next chapter of the company’s journey investing in combat sports arrives Saturday when they jump into the cage to stage an MMA event headlined by female icons Ronda Rousey and Gina Carano at Intuit Dome in Inglewood, California.

The show will also feature former UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou and forever fan favorite Nate Diaz, household names who are no strangers to boxing.

The main card will broadcast globally on Netflix, the streaming powerhouse that has taken a serious liking to presenting pugilism for its 325 million subscribers ever since first stepping into the space with Paul’s showdown against Mike Tyson in November 2024.

Nakisa Bidarian, the co-founder and CEO of MVP, is the businessman brokering deals behind the scenes while Paul masterfully mans a megaphone, shining a light on their series of calculated risks.

Bidarian’s respect for the power of women's combat sports is rooted in Rousey, who took the UFC by storm as its first women’s champion at a time when he served as a chief strategy and financial officer for UFC.

“We're incredibly excited to put on this massive, global event headlined by two athletes in Ronda and Gina, who just happen to be women. It's capturing not just a sports audience but a mainstream audience as well,” Bidarian told The Ring after Rousey, Carano and others from the 11-fight card took over the iconic Venice Beach Boardwalk for a public workout.

“Ronda became the UFC’s biggest star and was right up there with Conor McGregor in 2015. I’d never seen anything like it. It’s very uncommon for any industry, but most notably for a woman in the professional sports ranks, to be the biggest star. When we started MVP, Ronda’s success in MMA was definitely a large component of us trying to make women’s boxing sustainable moving forward.”

Women’s boxing has been devoid of a perennial draw and lightning rod akin to Rousey, but it's certainly grown out of its stereotypes of being a novelty act since the turn of the century.

Bidarian and Paul made their first splash five years ago by signing Amanda Serrano, one of the greatest female fighters of all time. They immediately gave her a co-starring role alongside Paul, beginning with the company’s debut event featuring his first fight against Tyron Woodley on Showtime PPV in August 2021.

MVP slowly navigated around boxing, with Paul mostly steering the ship with his own fights headlining events. Separately, a series of contenders including Lucas Bahdi started to emerge and starred on MVP shows.

But since the beginning of last year, MVP has signed seemingly every significant female fighter under the sun, including Alycia Baumgardner, Mikaela Mayer, Caroline Dubois, Chantelle Cameron, Holly Holm, Ellie Scotney, Dina Thorslund, Cherneka Johnson, Yokasta Valle, Savannah Marshall, Shadasia Green, Oshae Jones, Tiara Brown and Evelin Bermudez, among dozens of others.

MVP has six of The Ring’s top 10 pound-for-pound fighters under contract. Although Katie Taylor, Claressa Shields, Gabriela Fundora and Lauren Price are navigating their careers outside of MVP, all roads for meaningful matchups seemingly lead them back to Bidarian and Paul.

“People have been doubting our strategy ever since the beginning,” said Bidarian. “We tested our theory with Amanda Serrano by leveraging Jake’s profile to put her on the pedestal and provided her a platform and push to allow the world to appreciate her talent and women’s boxing as a sport.

“We’ve been getting traction, just like we thought we would, ever since, and it all culminated around the time Jake Paul faced Mike Tyson. That’s when we pulled the trigger to go all-in with a strategic priority and signed all of the best women's champions that we could, in addition to top female contenders and prospects.”

Broadcasters took notice that there was a viable market for women’s boxing — albeit one that required much fewer financial resources — after punting on boxing as a whole.

Serrano and Taylor engaged in an all-out war in a rematch as the co-main event under Paul-Tyson that yielded 60 million worldwide live views on Netflix. The Serrano-Taylor trilogy in July was also presented on Netflix and resulted in six million views as the main event of an all-women’s card.

With a deep roster in tow, MVP signed a multi-year media rights deal with ESPN to feature MVPW shows on ESPN’s linear cable channel and ESPN+ streaming service, eight months after the media giant allowed its deal with Top Rank to expire. Also in March, Sky Sports became the UK home for MVPW, which has already staged two shows featuring wins by Dubois and Baumgardner across continents.

MVPW’s third event is scheduled for May 30 in El Paso, Texas, headlined by a rematch between Holm and Stephanie Han, and Serrano as the co-main event. MVP-04 is set to take place in Orlando on June 13, and Bidarian said several more shows will be slotted for the second half of the year.

“We’re really excited to have a cohesive brand and reference for the sport in MVPW, which represents the best in women’s boxing,” he said. “There is positive momentum right now around women's sports, starting with the WNBA, and that is spreading across the entire ecosystem. We’re not fools to say MVPW is going to be as big as men’s boxing, but it’s OK. You see how leagues like the WNBA are starting to do well. There is a lot of asset value there.

“When you believe in creating a premium product featuring a vast majority of the world's best athletes, there will be media rights demand for it, consumers will continue to understand its power, fanship and viewership will continue to grow.

“People are paying attention to women's sports more than ever. If you can give media companies the guarantee that they are getting the best of the best fights consistently, and it’s not insanely expensive compared to that on the men's side, it becomes a great one-two punch for everybody.”

MVP is still very much in the business of promoting men’s boxing on the undercard of Paul’s fights and on the prelim portions of the MVPW shows. Bidarian said MVP is also in discussions for additional media rights deals for event configurations headlined by men’s boxing.

Despite Paul saying his fighting future is in jeopardy after breaking his jaw in two places following a knockout loss to Anthony Joshua in December, an injury that resulted in two surgeries, Bidarian said the expectation is for the YouTuber-turned-fighter to return to the ring late in Q4 against either Ngannou, a Tommy Fury rematch or a run at a high-level cruiserweight.

“Given Jake’s profile, reach, and the demand for his product, we can do what makes sense on a case-by-case basis,” said Bidarian.

In the meantime, Rousey, 39, and Carano, 44, who are returning from a combined 27-year retirement, are tasked with guiding MVP’s maiden voyage into MMA.

"It's getting to a point where it's not a novelty to have women headlining events. It’s becoming commonplace," Rousey said during a press conference. "Hopefully, it's so common that it doesn't even deserve a mention. The ultimate goal is for women to have the same viewership and bring in the same revenue as men and to be able to be compensated the same as them as well."

Bidarian entirely supports Rousey's viewpoints and hopes its challenger brand can break through in a new sport and become something bigger, much like their business moves have proven to be in boxing.

“I assume our MMA event will do great numbers and that we’ll be taking a much more systematic approach on how we approach the sport,” said Bidarian. “Ronda's blown me away with her professional and promotional capabilities. She told me she has the desire to be our Dana White after this fight, and if all things go well, I am very open to launching MVP MMA with Ronda being an integral part of it.

“We can push, promote and raise awareness, but it also comes to the athletes to put on the right performances and capture the imagination of fans so that MVP can tell those stories and help everyone expand even further.”

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MVP’S VISION FOR WOMEN’S BOXING IS ROOTED IN ROUSEY

Jake Paul’s Most Valuable Promotions has been making massive waves in women’s boxing in the last year by signing stars and brokering top-shelf media rights deals to showcase its roster of 50 female fighters, 17 of whom are active champions.

The next chapter of the company’s journey investing in combat sports arrives Saturday when they jump into the cage to stage an MMA event headlined by female icons Ronda Rousey and Gina Carano at Intuit Dome in Inglewood, California.

The show will also feature former UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou and forever fan favorite Nate Diaz, household names who are no strangers to boxing.

The main card will broadcast globally on Netflix, the streaming powerhouse that has taken a serious liking to presenting pugilism for its 325 million subscribers ever since first stepping into the space with Paul’s showdown against Mike Tyson in November 2024.

Nakisa Bidarian, the co-founder and CEO of MVP, is the businessman brokering deals behind the scenes while Paul masterfully mans a megaphone, shining a light on their series of calculated risks.

Bidarian’s respect for the power of women's combat sports is rooted in Rousey, who took the UFC by storm as its first women’s champion at a time when he served as a chief strategy and financial officer for UFC.

“We're incredibly excited to put on this massive, global event headlined by two athletes in Ronda and Gina, who just happen to be women. It's capturing not just a sports audience but a mainstream audience as well,” Bidarian told The Ring after Rousey, Carano and others from the 11-fight card took over the iconic Venice Beach Boardwalk for a public workout.

“Ronda became the UFC’s biggest star and was right up there with Conor McGregor in 2015. I’d never seen anything like it. It’s very uncommon for any industry, but most notably for a woman in the professional sports ranks, to be the biggest star. When we started MVP, Ronda’s success in MMA was definitely a large component of us trying to make women’s boxing sustainable moving forward.”

Women’s boxing has been devoid of a perennial draw and lightning rod akin to Rousey, but it's certainly grown out of its stereotypes of being a novelty act since the turn of the century.

Bidarian and Paul made their first splash five years ago by signing Amanda Serrano, one of the greatest female fighters of all time. They immediately gave her a co-starring role alongside Paul, beginning with the company’s debut event featuring his first fight against Tyron Woodley on Showtime PPV in August 2021.

MVP slowly navigated around boxing, with Paul mostly steering the ship with his own fights headlining events. Separately, a series of contenders including Lucas Bahdi started to emerge and starred on MVP shows.

But since the beginning of last year, MVP has signed seemingly every significant female fighter under the sun, including Alycia Baumgardner, Mikaela Mayer, Caroline Dubois, Chantelle Cameron, Holly Holm, Ellie Scotney, Dina Thorslund, Cherneka Johnson, Yokasta Valle, Savannah Marshall, Shadasia Green, Oshae Jones, Tiara Brown and Evelin Bermudez, among dozens of others.

MVP has six of The Ring’s top 10 pound-for-pound fighters under contract. Although Katie Taylor, Claressa Shields, Gabriela Fundora and Lauren Price are navigating their careers outside of MVP, all roads for meaningful matchups seemingly lead them back to Bidarian and Paul.

“People have been doubting our strategy ever since the beginning,” said Bidarian. “We tested our theory with Amanda Serrano by leveraging Jake’s profile to put her on the pedestal and provided her a platform and push to allow the world to appreciate her talent and women’s boxing as a sport.

“We’ve been getting traction, just like we thought we would, ever since, and it all culminated around the time Jake Paul faced Mike Tyson. That’s when we pulled the trigger to go all-in with a strategic priority and signed all of the best women's champions that we could, in addition to top female contenders and prospects.”

Broadcasters took notice that there was a viable market for women’s boxing — albeit one that required much fewer financial resources — after punting on boxing as a whole.

Serrano and Taylor engaged in an all-out war in a rematch as the co-main event under Paul-Tyson that yielded 60 million worldwide live views on Netflix. The Serrano-Taylor trilogy in July was also presented on Netflix and resulted in six million views as the main event of an all-women’s card.

With a deep roster in tow, MVP signed a multi-year media rights deal with ESPN to feature MVPW shows on ESPN’s linear cable channel and ESPN+ streaming service, eight months after the media giant allowed its deal with Top Rank to expire. Also in March, Sky Sports became the UK home for MVPW, which has already staged two shows featuring wins by Dubois and Baumgardner across continents.

MVPW’s third event is scheduled for May 30 in El Paso, Texas, headlined by a rematch between Holm and Stephanie Han, and Serrano as the co-main event. MVP-04 is set to take place in Orlando on June 13, and Bidarian said several more shows will be slotted for the second half of the year.

“We’re really excited to have a cohesive brand and reference for the sport in MVPW, which represents the best in women’s boxing,” he said. “There is positive momentum right now around women's sports, starting with the WNBA, and that is spreading across the entire ecosystem. We’re not fools to say MVPW is going to be as big as men’s boxing, but it’s OK. You see how leagues like the WNBA are starting to do well. There is a lot of asset value there.

“When you believe in creating a premium product featuring a vast majority of the world's best athletes, there will be media rights demand for it, consumers will continue to understand its power, fanship and viewership will continue to grow.

“People are paying attention to women's sports more than ever. If you can give media companies the guarantee that they are getting the best of the best fights consistently, and it’s not insanely expensive compared to that on the men's side, it becomes a great one-two punch for everybody.”

MVP is still very much in the business of promoting men’s boxing on the undercard of Paul’s fights and on the prelim portions of the MVPW shows. Bidarian said MVP is also in discussions for additional media rights deals for event configurations headlined by men’s boxing.

Despite Paul saying his fighting future is in jeopardy after breaking his jaw in two places following a knockout loss to Anthony Joshua in December, an injury that resulted in two surgeries, Bidarian said the expectation is for the YouTuber-turned-fighter to return to the ring late in Q4 against either Ngannou, a Tommy Fury rematch or a run at a high-level cruiserweight.

“Given Jake’s profile, reach, and the demand for his product, we can do what makes sense on a case-by-case basis,” said Bidarian.

In the meantime, Rousey, 39, and Carano, 44, who are returning from a combined 27-year retirement, are tasked with guiding MVP’s maiden voyage into MMA.

"It's getting to a point where it's not a novelty to have women headlining events. It’s becoming commonplace," Rousey said during a press conference. "Hopefully, it's so common that it doesn't even deserve a mention. The ultimate goal is for women to have the same viewership and bring in the same revenue as men and to be able to be compensated the same as them as well."

Bidarian entirely supports Rousey's viewpoints and hopes its challenger brand can break through in a new sport and become something bigger, much like their business moves have proven to be in boxing.

“I assume our MMA event will do great numbers and that we’ll be taking a much more systematic approach on how we approach the sport,” said Bidarian. “Ronda's blown me away with her professional and promotional capabilities. She told me she has the desire to be our Dana White after this fight, and if all things go well, I am very open to launching MVP MMA with Ronda being an integral part of it.

“We can push, promote and raise awareness, but it also comes to the athletes to put on the right performances and capture the imagination of fans so that MVP can tell those stories and help everyone expand even further.”

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Date: May 16, 2026
Location: Intuit Dome - Inglewood, CA
Stream: Netflix

Start time
Main Card: 9 pm. ET | 6 pm PT | 2 pm BST | 11 pm AEST
Preliminary Card: 6 pm ET | 3 pm PT | 11 pm BST | 8 pm AEST

Main Card

Featherweight Bout
Ronda Rousey (12-2) vs. Gina Carano (7-1)

Welterweight Bout
Nate Diaz (21-13) vs. Mike Perry (14-8)

Heavyweight Bout
Francis Ngannou (18-3) vs. Philipe Lins (18-5)

Lightweight Bout
Salahdine Parnasse (22-2) vs. Kenneth Cross (17-4)

Heavyweight Bout
Junior dos Santos (23-10) vs. Robelis Despaigne (5-2)

Preliminary Card

Welterweight Bout
Namo Fazil (9-1) vs. Jake Babian (6-1)

Flyweight Bout
Adriano Moraes (21-6) vs. Phumi Nkuta (11-0)

Welterweight Bout
Jason Jackson (19-6) vs. Jefferson Creighton (12-2-1)

Featherweight Bout
David Mgoyan (8-1) vs. Albert Morales (19-10-1)

130lb Catchweight Bout
Aline Pereira (2-2) vs. Jade Masson-Wong (3-2)

165lb Catchweight Bout
Chris Avila (8-9) vs. Brandon Jenkins (17-12)

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Some decent scraps at least on this.

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Nothing really especially exciting on this card. Ngannou looked good getting a win over a no name. Rousey got a quick win over Carano as expected.

Nate Diaz vs Mike Perry was the best fight of the show. Lots of blood in that one. Otherwise than that, a lot of one sided blowouts.

It was also weird to see that this was a Jake Paul promoted card, and like half the people that won called out the promoter

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MVP and Netflix release official announcement on the MVP MMA Rousey vs Carano event

Co-founders of Most Valuable Promotions Nakisa Bidarian and Jake Paul had the following to say regarding the results of the event, “MVP’s first entry into MMA delivered on a massive global scale and exceeded every expectation we had for the launch of this new chapter of our business.

“Over 12.4 million viewers around the world tuned in live on Netflix, with viewership peaking at almost 17 million during Rousey vs. Carano, making it one of the most-watched MMA events of all time.

“In the United States alone, the triple-main card averaged 9.3 million viewers and peaked at 11.6 million viewers during the main event, making it the most watched MMA event ever in the US.

“The event also generated over 410 million impressions across MVP’s owned social channels, a live gate exceeding $2.2 million, and saw terrific commercial premises distribution across bars, restaurants, casinos, and hospitality venues nationwide.

“We’re incredibly proud of what was accomplished alongside our partners at Netflix and grateful to the athletes who helped make MVP MMA’s debut such a success.

“We’ve received an overwhelming amount of interest from investors, strategic partners, and fighters who want to be involved with MVP and the future of MVP MMA.

“We are currently reviewing all strategic options to do something very meaningful within MMA on a go-forward basis with a distribution partner like Netflix that shares our vision to create lasting impact.”

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In the Netflix and MVP blockbuster live triple-main event on Saturday, 16 May at Intuit Dome in Los Angeles, California:

- Ronda Rousey (13-2, 10 Submissions, 3 KOs) defeated Gina Carano (7-2, 1 Submission, 3 KOs) in 17 seconds via armbar submission.

- The “King of Violence” Mike Perry (15-8, 11 KOs) won against Nate Diaz (22-14, 14 Submissions, 4 KOs) by TKO after the referee stopped the fight before the third round.

- Francis Ngannou (19-3, 4 Submissions, 14 KOs) knocked out Brazil’s Philipe Lins (18-6, 4 Submissions, 9 KOs) in the first round.


- The triple-main card scored an estimated average minute audience (AMA) of 12.4 million Live+1 viewers globally, per VideoAmp, G&G and Netflix. Viewership peaked with nearly 17 million viewers watching the Rousey vs. Carano fight.
- In the US, the triple-main card averaged 9.3M viewers, peaking at 11.6M viewers during Rousey vs. Carano.
- Rousey vs. Carano generated 1 billion impressions across Netflix’s global social channels.
- The fight dominated the trending topics on X in the United States with #RouseyCarano taking the #1 spot all evening, alongside related terms like Nate Diaz, Jake Paul, MVP MMA, and Netflix MMA.
- Globally, the fight was the #1 trend in Brazil and #3 in the UK.
- The fight attracted a star-studded ringside audience including Michael Irvin, Tommy Lee, Barry Bonds, Sebastian Maniscalco, James Cameron, Marshawn Lynch, Jon Jones, DIPLO, Anderson Silva, Dax Shepard, Lilly Singh, Carmen Electra, David Spade, Big Boy, CM Punk, Claressa Shields and Alycia Baumgardner, Puka Nacua, Jared Verse, Cameron Dallas, Netflix’s Nemesis stars Matthew Law and Y’lan Noel, and more.
- Ronda Rousey vs. Gina Carano is the latest live, can’t-miss event on Netflix. Upcoming live events include five NFL games this season, WWE Raw, MLB Home Run Derby and Field of Dreams, and more.
- Rousey vs. Carano marks Netflix’s fourth live event with Most Valuable Promotions (MVP) — following Paul vs. Tyson, Taylor vs. Serrano III, and Paul vs. Joshua.
- Rousey vs. Carano was produced by Most Valuable Promotions (MVP) and EverWonder.

- Full event results are available at [url=http://tudum.com/]tudum.com[/url].

Total viewership Live+1 AMA estimates are derived from VideoAmp data in the US (In-Home, Live+1), G&G (US), and first-party data ex-US.