Episode 693: Really, Gina? Breaking down MVP’s first MMA event

The Co-Main Event MMA Podcast

Chad Dundas

Leisure, Sports

4.8 • 707 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2026

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Most Valuable Promotions put on its inaugural MMA event on Netflix last weekend. If we’re being honest, it was a lot. The mismatch-filled main card played out exactly according to chalk. Mike Perry beat Nate Diaz into a living death before their fight was stopped due to cuts. Big Fran KOed a puffed-up light heavyweight in Philipe Lins after a few minutes of toying with his food. And that much-ballyhooed main event between Ronda Rousey and Gina Carano? Hoo boy. We kinda knew it was going to be bad, but we didn’t know it was gonna be THAT bad. But perhaps what mattered more than the outcome of the actual fights was the event itself. A lot of people seemed to watch, and while the live broadcast was certainly not without its flaws, it also wasn’t terrible. Dare we say it suggests MVP MMA has a positive future? You know, if they ever want to do another show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Co Main Event Podcast.
0:10.9	And now your hosts, Ben Folks and Chad Dundas.
0:17.8	That's right.
0:19.2	You're listening to another episode of the co-main event mixed martial arts podcast.
0:25.0	I'm Chad Dundas. That's Ben Fulks. We're both longtime MMA journalists. And for the last 14 years,
0:32.6	we've been meeting here every week to break down all the action in the wild, weird, and occasionally wonderful world
0:40.8	of mixed martial arts and Ben. I guess if there's any true barometer for how last weekend
0:48.3	MMA action went, let me say this. We got a lot of listener mail about the inaugural MVP MMA card,
0:58.0	Rousey versus Carrano event over on Netflix, and we got zero. Zero. Not one message
1:06.9	about the UFC's event, the fight night where it appears.
1:12.6	Arnold Allen won a lopsided decision over Melquazel Costa.
1:16.6	I say appears because full disclosure, I have not watched it and I probably won't.
1:23.6	And frankly, that sucks for Arnold Allen, man, because, you know, it seemed like he was
1:30.6	doing his best last week to kind of be funny and memorable in some of his pre-fight media
1:35.8	engagements that I saw online. And for him to go up against Rousey versus Carrano, just
1:42.0	completely buried the guy, just obliterated any focus that might have
1:46.9	been on his victory whatsoever. Because honestly, that's probably all we'll say about it on this show.
1:55.3	And I can't imagine he's getting much more coverage anywhere else.
1:59.9	Yeah, honestly, the most notable thing about it for the purposes of this show is how
2:04.8	nobody wanted to talk about it today.
2:07.4	Yeah, yeah.
2:08.3	When is that ever the case?
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