Fighter vs. Writer: Matt Brown Reacts to UFC White House Card, Francis Ngannou Fighting for MVP and Charles Oliveira Mauling Max Holloway

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🗓️ 10 March 2026

⏱️ 62 minutes

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On the latest episode of The Fighter vs. The Writer, UFC legend Matt Brown and Damon Martin react to the UFC White House card announcement and if this event is underwhelming based on the promises made by the promotion. Was Ilia Topuria vs. Justin Gaethje the best main event possible? Plus we’ll talk about Francis Ngannou signing with MVP to compete on the Ronda Rousey vs. Gina Carano card and Charles Oliveira mauling Max Holloway in the UFC 326 main event plus much more! Subscribe to MMA Fighting Check out our full video catalog Like MMA Fighting on Facebook Follow on Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:43.2	Welcome. Welcome back to the Fighter versus the writer.
0:44.0	I'm Damon Martin.
0:45.6	He is UFC legend Matt Brown.
0:50.4	And Matt, we are back after a kind of a weird weekend because we had UFC 326.
0:52.8	Didn't quite play out the way a lot of people thought it would.
1:11.2	But we did get some big announcements. We got the uc white house card and we also found out today that francis and gano is no longer into pfl and he's fighting on the rousy coroner carot cards like all the big news weirdly didn't come from the uc what pay-per-view whatever you quote-unquote want to call the big news i think the biggest news of course was the white house card yeah yeah i mean of. I think the biggest news, of course, was the White House card. Yeah, yeah.
1:12.1	I mean, of course, that was the biggest news of the weekend. And I'm sure we got a lot to talk about on that note, right? Yeah, I mean, like, we knew it was coming. Dana said all week, I'm going to drop the White House card. It ends up being six fights. And the main event is
1:27.3	Ilya Tupori and Justin Gagy.
1:29.0	I'm sure everyone's heard all the rumors
1:30.6	they were working on this. the White House card ends up being six fights. And the main event is Ilya Tupori and Justin Gagchi.
1:29.0	I'm sure everyone's heard all the rumors. They were working on this. They were working on that. Gachi said as of like two days ago, he wasn't on the card. Then Dana said last night neither Ilya or Justin were supposed to be on the card. So I don't know what other main event they were supposedly working on. they were claiming John Jones was never going to be part of it.
1:44.9	I've heard a lot of things.
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