LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 The first live MMA event broadcast on Netflix \u2014 featuring a double-comeback bout between Ronda Rousey and Gina Carano \u2014 attracted the most U.S. viewers in the sport’s history.<\/p>\n
Netflix and Jake Paul\u2019s Most Valuable Promotions reported on Tuesday that Saturday’s event in Inglewood, California, drew as many as 17 million viewers worldwide, including a peak of 11.6 million in the U.S.<\/p>\n
The U.S. figure surpassed the previous MMA record of 8.8 million in 2011 for UFC on FOX 1.<\/p>\n
The 39-year-old Rousey, performing in a mixed martial arts cage for the first time in nearly a decade, defeated the 44-year-old Carano with her signature armbar move just 17 seconds into the bout. Carano was fighting for the first time in 17 years.<\/p>\n
Other featured bouts at the Intuit Dome on Saturday included a fight between UFC veterans Mike Perry and Nate Diaz. Perry won the welterweight matchup on a doctor’s stoppage after bloodying Diaz.<\/p>\n
In another bout, former UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou knocked out Philipe Lins in the first round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 The first live MMA event broadcast on Netflix \u2014 featuring a double-comeback bout between…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":972175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5311],"tags":[56349,256959,17819,14022,57118,244110,244111,260986,271087,244106,260985,271088,271089,271090,271086,49,978,659],"class_list":["post-972174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-francis-ngannou","tag-gina-carano","tag-jake-paul","tag-mike-perry","tag-nate-diaz","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100373-mc-complete-state-national","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30031-ap-california-state-news-no-weather","tag-product-30598-ap-national-news-report-a-wire","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-31388-premium-entertainment","tag-product-33328-ap-premium-entertainment-other","tag-product-40776-ap-california-sports-only","tag-rousy-carano-netflix-ratings-record","tag-united-states","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=972174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/972175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=972174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=972174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}