Fan Questions: Are Casual Fans Running the UFC?
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4.0 • 5.6K Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Brendan Schaub breaks down the biggest stories in MMA, including growing concerns around the UFC’s White House card and whether the promotion is losing its grip on casual fans.
In this episode of The Schaub Show, Schaub dives into why superstar power still matters more than rankings, explaining how names like Ronda Rousey, Nate Diaz, and Francis Ngannou could outdraw current UFC champions on a massive platform like Netflix. He also reacts to Israel Adesanya’s recent struggles, questioning whether motivation, success, and wear-and-tear are catching up to the former champ.
The episode also covers:
UFC White House card expectations vs reality
Casual fans vs hardcore MMA audience
Fighter pay and new promotions like MVP
Gable Steveson’s future and Jon Jones influence
The current heavyweight division issues
If you’re looking for the latest UFC news, MMA debates, and unfiltered takes on Dana White’s promotion, this is a must-watch.
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| 0:00.0 | right through the city like brennan shaw i'm on a mission to get it all right through the city like brinan |
| 0:06.1 | shaw if you ain't thick please don't get involved and now brandon thick boy shaw |
| 0:15.4 | what up fam happy sunday let's get right into fan questions hopefully you enjoyed that fight night |
| 0:23.7 | we're all just waiting for ufc 327 in miami this coming freaking saturday i can't wait |
| 0:29.9 | also check out game bread in the dominican republic there's some great fights on there it's |
| 0:34.5 | bare knuckle m m m m going down this friday so make sure you check that out me Me and your boy Jimmy Smith will be doing the commentating. So it's going to be a fun time. But let's get in these fan questions. Thank you guys for watching last week's two episodes. You guys make the show. Keep on taking. Let's get to these fan questions. The underscore Andrew were. And then it cuts off. question for the shop show want to put my daughter in martial |
| 0:57.9 | arts for girls what is more beneficial wrestling or jihitsu come from sports i can spot a coach |
| 1:05.2 | who skips coming from sports i can spot a coach who skips through important fundamentals |
| 1:10.1 | for wrestling jihis too since i have no background in it. How do you notice when a coach is going |
| 1:14.9 | from A to C just skipping B, just missing fundamentals technique or a coach who actually cares |
| 1:20.0 | and teaches the technical aspect behind everything? Thanks for what you do, been a fan since the tough |
| 1:24.4 | days. Shout to you, young man. Um, when it um when it so first of all it's two-part |
| 1:30.3 | question what's more beneficial wrestler and jiu-jitsu i think wrestling it depends wrestling's not for |
| 1:35.8 | everybody it is very tough it's going to test their mental capacity it's full kind of body workout |
| 1:43.5 | it's a very tough sport mentally on the kids and it's it's tough |
| 1:46.5 | physically it's the toughest some would say um there's also no shenanigans in wrestling now i'm sure |
| 1:53.1 | there's some outliers and there's some bad people overall though in my experience i wrestled my |
| 1:59.1 | kids wrestle the wrestling community has always been a positive thing. |
| 2:04.1 | There's not the shenanigans where you got to worry about someone hitting on your daughter. |
| 2:08.4 | There's just a, there's a more, how do I say it? |
| 2:10.6 | There's more morale. |
| 2:14.2 | There's more respect in wrestling, I would say. |
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