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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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