Overview
- MVP’s first MMA event is set for May 16 at the Intuit Dome, headlined by Ronda Rousey vs. Gina Carano and streaming on Netflix.
- Francis Ngannou is booked to fight Philipe Lins on the same card as part of MVP’s debut lineup.
- After Jon Jones asked to be released by the UFC this week, Jake Paul and Nakisa Bidarian publicly urged him to join MVP and vowed premium compensation.
- Rousey and Paul criticized the UFC’s Paramount+ era and fighter pay, presenting MVP’s Netflix stage as the start of broader change in MMA.
- Nakisa Bidarian proposed a Jake Paul–Conor McGregor series in MMA and boxing as a co-promotion, which remains speculative given McGregor’s UFC contract.