Episode 681: Ronda Rousey vs. Gina Carano … in this economy?!?

The Co-Main Event MMA Podcast

Chad Dundas

Leisure, Sports

4.8 • 707 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2026

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

As is so typical in this sport, they’re going to give us the superfight. They’re just going to give it to us about 10 years too late. Such is the case with Ronda Rousey vs. Gina Carano, which will go down May 16 (yes, May 16, 2026) at the Intuit Dome in Inglewood, Calif. Perhaps the biggest surprise of all is that the people giving it to us aren’t the UFC, but Most Valuable Promotions — and the fight will air on Netflix. Let’s be clear: This seems inadvisable. It likely won’t be competitive. But it’s probably going to be a big, big deal. Guess you can’t say Jake Paul and Nikisa Bidarian don’t swing for the fences. Plus, Zuffa Boxing signed Conor Benn for $15 million for one fight. Hey, UFC fighters, are you paying attention NOW? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.3	You're listening to the Co-Main Event Podcast. And now your hosts, Ben Fulks and Chad Dundas.
0:39.1	That's right.
0:43.7	You're listening to another episode of the co-main event mixed martial arts podcast.
0:45.3	I'm Chad Dundas.
0:46.0	That's Ben.
0:49.1	Folks, we're both longtime MMA journalists. And for nearly the last 14 years, we've been meeting here every week to break down all the action in the wild, weird, and occasionally wonderful world of mixed martial arts. Ben, we're back.
1:02.4	We are back. We had to take a couple weeks off. At least this show did. You and I had somewhat dueling vacations. I went down to Florida to see the in-laws,
1:13.1	take the kids to Disney World. You went over to Denmark, traipsed about Europe from what I
1:19.1	understand. But here we are back again, playing a little bit of catch up, I guess, because we've
1:25.2	been gone for so long. And I think at this point, the top
1:29.5	news in the industry is probably still Ronda Rousey versus Gina Carrano. I am interested to know
1:38.3	when and how and where you were when you found out about this because I was in Florida and I you know just
1:45.6	looked glanced at the at the social media timeline saw this the graphic for this fight come
1:52.6	across and you know when you see this kind of shit now the first thing you have to do is be like
1:57.2	A is this real and so once I determined that it was real, the very first thing that came to my mind was
2:06.9	that this show was off and that this shit happened on a Tuesday, if I'm not mistaken.
2:12.2	I said out loud, Tuesday news curse.
2:16.7	You said this out loud?
2:18.3	I said that out loud to myself, essentially.
2:21.3	No one around you understands these words.
2:23.3	This is just like a completely context free information for them.
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