Melody Zahradnick

@negans_bat_ @lthomasnews 1st was:"no body is gonna even tune in to watch this thing." Then it was: "ppl r watchin' but I BET the #s r gonna b TERRBLE Now the #s hv come out: "but but but.. well mayb ppl DID watch, but I bet they can't do that again" The level of cope with u ppl is off the charts 😂😂

@lthomasnews Yea but the event was shit. They won’t be able to do those numbers again

NEW: MVP’s MMA event over the weekend earned 12.4 million viewers with a peak of 17 million globally. In the U.S., “triple-main card averaged 9.3 million viewers and peaked at 11.6 million viewers during the main event, making it the most watched MMA event ever in the US.”

@lthomasnews That's is more than enough

This is enough to keep the train moving.

@life_bust @ChampRDS Yeah, cry more about it.. I didn't tune in, but hv no prob w those who did & enjoyed themselves. It's no diff than a lot of the cans UFC has been shelping 4 some time. IE: Mr "beer drinking shoe" Tuivasa, who is now a slob of a fighter but UFC puts him on, ppl love him

@ChampRDS 17 million idiots sat and watched 2 washed aunties fight for 17 seconds, and if you sat down for the whole show, well that’s even sadder🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️😂

🚨 The Ronda Rousey vs Gina Carano MVP MMA card peaked at 17 million global viewers on Netflix 👀 For reference, other numbers for fights on Netflix: Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson: 108 million viewers Canelo vs Terence Crawford: 41 million viewers Jake Paul vs Anthony Joshua: 33 million viewers

@eaglesallday35 @ErnestWorthin18 @UlyssesYT_ @ChampRDS No ... What's with "you weirdos" fake celebrating in ur basements thinking no one watched the card that night, then when the numbers finally emerge ur all... "Durrr durbbb ThAT wAs SuPpOsSeD tO hApPeN, u SeE" 😂😂😂

@ErnestWorthin18 @UlyssesYT_ @ChampRDS What's with u weirdos bragging about a card having more numbers on Netflix. That's supposed to happen lmao and 17 mil for Netflix is dog shit lol

@MAGAis4LOSERS2 @nofanboymma Gina is not broke, far from it.

@nofanboymma Nah, that’s broke ass Gina getting a bag for being a loser in and out of the ring

RONDA ROUSEY with the kind of bank robbery Floyd Mayweather would be proud of 😭

@Mejican_Jesus @keithedwards If you didn't sniff out Cuban 5,000 miles away fr the outset, then I'm sorry.. I don't know what 2 tell u. None of them "want 2 help ppl" There is MASSIVE cash grab 4 Oligarchs & billionaires, & they can't stop themselves. Other Countries hv already figured out cheap meds

@keithedwards Trump, Bezos, and Cuban are going to make billions with TrumpRX. It all makes sense now.

Mark, you are standing next to the guy who gutted Medicaid, the ACA, and put a conspiracy theorist in charge of HHS. I can’t think of any one person who’s done more to destroy healthcare access, and yet there you were with him.

@MMsNutz @bokamotoESPN 👀... Idiot if that is true..

@bokamotoESPN Did he quit, or did they basically make his ass retire after he snuck in recording Dana at the poker table? 💀

Have confirmed with UFC officials that Colby Covington has informed them of his decision to retire.

@A2Fenix @arielhelwani He has said it many times B4 I don't like him either, but he has said it many times

@arielhelwani And why are you JUST NOW FUCKING SAYING IT? Because it’s another promotion. Yeah WE BEEN knowing this.

PSA: The payouts for the Netflix card are not real. And when these numbers come out for the UFC, they usually aren’t real either. Maybe the prelim payouts are accurate, but for the top guys? No chance. There’s the “disclosed payout,” and then there’s the actual agreement behind the scenes. This has always been a thing in MMA.

@AnTTr0n @arielhelwani EXACTLY

@arielhelwani It's a thing in every combat sport when Canelo rematched Golovkin the reported purses were $5 million and $4 million then they got a cut of the PPV and gate and their own sponsors. I think newer fans don't understand this because the UFC got commissions to stop reporting them.

@jedigoodman Lol The UFC didn't decline.. The Women declined UFC 😂😂 They went w Netflix contract when presented w both during negotiations. This topic has already been talked abt by Rousey during interviews & Dana was asked as well. There is gonna b a of "rewriting" of history by UFC 😂

Mark Shapiro on being pitched #RouseyCarano and ultimately declining: For us it was more of a stunt than a meaningful MMA event.

@FreeRoscoe00 @SleeplessSW @BasedDongeezus The business models appeared 2 hv worked well 4 quite a while Good enough 4 UFC 2 freak out every time an org got legs under them. UFC wld pretend the org sucked, they wld rush right over, buy them, & then take their talent. Most of their champions hv come fr those other orgs

@SleeplessSW @BasedDongeezus Long term? One, I don't think Ronda planned to stick around. 2, the MMA organization business model never has made sense, and it never worked outside of UFC, which has always been on the brink of death itself lol it's why boxing is the way it is

Must be nice being stupid enough to think this was fixed. Same result would have happened 15 years ago except maybe Gina would have made it to 45 seconds

@Boxing_Tribune @TrentReinsmith That is probably true, however everything that he is saying is pretty much also true when looking back on the history of the broadcast history of the sport as a whole. The sport has grown a lot

@TrentReinsmith Sounds like Ariel really, really likes to get paid...

Ariel Helwani for Jake Paul doing his best Max Kellerman for Zuffa... "Journalism..."

@sreinert6685 @CharlesPerreir7 @factpostnews They all ARE helping AS WELL!!! Oh my F'KING God... U help with a World changing,.defining Illness, like Ebola, cuz left unchecked, it cld rapidly grow out of control & then kill massive populations & then urselves & loved ones. AND it's the right thing 2 do. Touch grass

@CharlesPerreir7 @factpostnews Why are we spending money on Healthcare efforts in Congo? Is France, Canada, Japan, the UK doing that?

Here is Elon Musk bragging about how he "accidentally" canceled all Ebola prevention efforts (DOGE never fully restored the canceled contracts)

@GennySav1 @lthomasnews @JayMMAYT UFC didn't exactly "make their own stars" either They were & still r more n the AQUIRING stars than they r growing them. They bought every single Competor as soon as they got traction & slurped up their "stars". Most of their best ppl came fr elsewhere NOT fr UFC "growing" them

@lthomasnews @JayMMAYT Whilst that’s true , I suppose the counter would be MVP would have to grow and help make there own stars to be a legit competitor to the UFC

I mean the question he raised isn’t wrong. How does Netflix and MVP grow the sport of MMA by doing these one off money grabs ? A bunch of squash matches with fighters past their prime isn’t doing any fans or the sport justice. Until they build stars and get half decent matchmaking , nothing is gonna change

@arielhelwani What is even going on in this clip... I mean, it's competition, no? WTF r they supposed to do... 2 competing companies doing competing things??? No WAY!!

If I were trying to be as petty as the UFC in the moment they announced the Conor fight, I would’ve said, ‘We’re making a big announcement — tune in to Paramount+. We have an exclusive interview with the biggest star in the sport.’ You wanted people to stop watching the Netflix show, but you did it on IG Live in the most underwhelming way possible? It just felt like they didn’t execute it as well as they could have.

@RyanMcKinnell "superah hot fire"?? I know I hv been a little lax with following the who is who and all but... 🤔

Even if I wanted to shit on Dana & the UFC more than I do (I dont, because I look bitter & obsessed), I couldn't make up something this fucking stupid. Watching Dana White sink further & further into this oblivion of streamer trash, is quite a sight to behold. Ultra cringe.

@ServantofSelune @JoshNason If Rhonda and Carano had signed the UFC contract that was being offered INSTEAD of the Netflix.. we wld hv seen that 17 sec fight on UFC card, every1 can shut their pie holes abt it cuz UFC was bidding 4 them. Anything UFC says NOW is all horse💩 😆

@JoshNason And yet, Dana had no problem with Ronda fights being over in 20 seconds or less when she was selling out arenas and PPVs for him.

At today's JP Morgan global tech, media and communications conference, TKO's Mark Shapiro said the reason UFC passed on Ronda Rousey vs. Gina Carano was it "more of a stunt than a meaningful MMA event" and one he thought wasn't good for the sport after how it played out. "(Netflix) wants big spectacle events and they saw this as a big spectacle event. We're in the true MMA business on a meaningful, consistent basis. When we looked at this potential matchup, keep in mind there's a real art and skill to matchmaking....The answers (he & Ari Emanuel) got back (from Dana White & Hunter Campbell) were that fight will be over in 20 seconds. "I don't believe a fight like that, just the way it played out, is really good for MMA especially because it's Netflix and such an incredible global audience...that is going to sample, depending on what comes up on the front page, to go to that fight and think that's what MMA is, I don't believe is good for the sport long term. "We saw it that way and decided to pass on it," taking nothing away from Rousey, her win or the viewers the broadcast got.

@kylebrass27 @NotSeeker47 @LucaFury While that is true, there still needs 2 b these other Companies out there 2 keep it fresh, keep UFC fr stagnation, by that I mean, the WANT 2 put the best & entertaining fights on. W/o competition, there is no need o desire 4 them 2 do so.

@melraPower @NotSeeker47 @LucaFury Not saying ufc has been peak lately, but they’re not throwing guys like Tarec Saffiedine, Paul Buentello, and Keith jardine one step from retirement in title fights. There’s a huge difference, ufc it’s still the best guys fighting each other at the top of the divisions

The broadcast keeps acting like it’s some miracle from the gods that this card has all these finishes. No it was on purpose. It’s not hard to matchmake a card like this. EVERY Strikeforce event was this.

@CMerandi ❤️❤️ I hv been offered this for YEARS. I am glad I hv stuck 2 my guns & hv never gotten 1. This yr is the 1st time I hv had a Dr bring it⬆️, not 2 offer it, but 2 see if I had ever been offered, then 2 warn me against ever getting 1 n the future. Perhaps change is coming.

There are thousands of spinal cord stimulator victims Pain clinics are gimmick clinics. These medical predators will take advantage of the patient who doesn’t know any better Say no to the spinal cord stimulator

@kylebrass27 @NotSeeker47 @LucaFury Ur acting like UFC is not full of absolute rusty beer cans.. Go look at that roster, go watch those UFC fights the last 5+yrs & HONESTLY tell urself u are still watching "the best fights" u hv ever seen UFC ain't exactly been peek either

@NotSeeker47 @LucaFury 100% because they had some great fighters, but they had a lot of bad fighters too, bellator was similar they used a lot of guys way past their primes for views like fedor and mir