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Nate Diaz's Return

Nate Diaz's Return

Nate Diaz stepped back into an MMA cage for the first time in nearly four years. On May 16th, the 40-year-old Stockton native faced Mike "Platinum" Perry at the Intuit Dome in Inglewood, California, in what turned out to be one of the more legitimate fights on a Netflix card that otherwise read like
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When Rousey Called Chimaev a 'F***ing Cleft-Lip Lincoln'

When Rousey Called Chimaev a 'F***ing Cleft-Lip Lincoln'

When Ronda Rousey's Netflix comeback against Gina Carano was supposed to be the story of fight week, nobody had Khamzat Chimaev on the bingo card for creating actual chaos. But on May 15 — just six days before her big return — Rousey said something at the MVP MMA 1 press conference that would oversh
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Netflix Lost Mokaev to Visa Issues Five Days Before Its First MMA Card Aired

Netflix Lost Mokaev to Visa Issues Five Days Before Its First MMA Card Aired

When Netflix's first major MMA card was supposed to land on May 14th, the whole thing had the makings of a statement moment. The Intuit Dome was booked.
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Netflix's Uma Thurman Narrative Gambit — How a 42-Minute Fight Camp Doc Sold Rousey vs. Carano

Netflix's Uma Thurman Narrative Gambit — How a 42-Minute Fight Camp Doc Sold Rousey vs. Carano

The mechanics of combat sports marketing shifted in a way that most people watching didn't immediately clock. Netflix dropped "Countdown: Rousey vs.
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Ronda Rousey Tried to Occupy Two Contradictory Positions at Once, Three Weeks Before Fighting Gina Carano

Ronda Rousey Tried to Occupy Two Contradictory Positions at Once, Three Weeks Before Fighting Gina Carano

About two weeks before the Netflix main event that would shake up combat sports, Ronda Rousey did what she'd been doing non-stop for the previous three weeks: she tried to hold two mutually exclusive emotional positions in a single sentence and called it grace. When TMZ caught her on camera on April
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Netflix Debuted MMA and Built a Theme Park Instead of a Sport Card

Netflix Debuted MMA and Built a Theme Park Instead of a Sport Card

Back in May 2026, when Jake Paul's Most Valuable Promotions rolled out Netflix's first live MMA broadcast from Intuit Dome in LA on May 16th, nobody was quite prepared for what had actually been assembled. Nineteen days later, looking at what went down that Saturday night, the whole thing reads like
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Gina Carano Lost 100 Pounds to Fight Ronda Rousey on Netflix

Gina Carano Lost 100 Pounds to Fight Ronda Rousey on Netflix

When this went down back in mid-May 2026, it felt like the kind of celebrity MMA nostalgia card that shouldn't have worked—two former champions separated from active competition by roughly a decade, fighting on Netflix under Jake Paul's MVP banner. But what made the whole thing slightly less disposa
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Adriano Moraes Won With a Rear Naked Choke in the Final Second — Officials Reviewed the Footage and Confirmed It

Adriano Moraes Won With a Rear Naked Choke in the Final Second — Officials Reviewed the Footage and Confirmed It

With one second on the clock, Phumi Nkuta said the word that ends every roll in every gym in the world. The referee didn't call it.
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