A Rowdy Return Headlines Big-Name Card
For the first time in nearly a decade, the trailblazing Ronda Rousey will return to the octagon this Saturday in MVP MMA’s inaugural event. While Rousey is rightfully headlining the event on Netflix, she’s hardly the lone star, with multiple former UFC champions and challengers helping to fill out the card.
Rousey, whose illustrious UFC career ended ceremonously after back-to-back stunning losses at the hands of Holly Holm and Amanada Nunes, will make her return against another fighter-turned-actor in Gina Carano. And, like Rousey, Carano is re-entering the octagon after a lengthy layoff, having last fought in August of 2009, where she was stopped by Cris Cyborg in the first women-headlined MMA event.
Between Rousey's superior resume and, somehow, more recent track record inside the octagon, she'll enter Saturday as a considerable -575 favourite, with Carano coming back as a +390 underdog. After a UFC career defined by her brilliant ground game, Rousey to win by submission—where nine of her 12 career victories came—is -210.
Leading into the headliner will be a bout between another former UFC champion, the fearsome Francis Ngannou, and Phillipe Lins.
Though Ngannou had a complicated, messy end to his UFC career—as well as a humbling foray into boxing—he's rightuflly a massive, -1,400 favourite on Saturday, having won his previous seven MMA fights by stopping his opponent. Fittingly, Ngannou to win by KO/TKO is -500, with the fight at -1400 to be stopped before it goes to the judges.
Lins, who last fought at UFC 299 in March 2024, comes back as a +750 underdog despite having ended his UFC career with four consecutive wins.
In what is expected to be the most competitive fight of the night, the infamous and entertaining Nate Diaz will take on former UFC welterweight and current Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship middleweight Michael Perry. Diaz, who catapulted to fame after a pair of fights with Conor McGregor a decade ago, last fought in the UFC in September 2022, with a brief stint in the boxing ring following.
Despite a career boasting some impressive wins—most notably over McGregor—years of inactivity will see the 41-year-old Diaz enter Saturday as a +165 underdog. Perry, 34, has stayed active with regular fights in the BKFC over the last several years and is a -220 favourite despite a middling MMA career—which ended five years ago.
With a celebrated return to the octagon for one of the sport’s all-time greats, and high-profile fighters scattered throughout the card, MVP MMA has put together an eye-catching inaugural card.
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Odds as of May 13, 2026.