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Most Valuable Promotions is planning on making a serious impact with its first mixed martial arts event.
It's been a while since Nate Diaz had an MMA fight. | Getty/UFC Most Valuable Promotions is planning on making a serious impact with its first mixed martial arts event. MVP announced on Monday that a five-round clash pitting Nate Diaz against Mike Perry has been added to its May 16 card at the Intuit Dome in Los Angeles.
Diaz vs. Perry will be contested at welterweight. The MVP card is headlined by a women’s featherweight tilt between Ronda Rousey and Gina Carano , while Francis Ngannou will square off against Philipe Lins in the evening’s co-main event.
The card will be the first MMA event to be broadcast on Netflix. "MVP delivered the most-viewed boxing event since the advent of cable, and now we're set to break records again with the biggest viewership in MMA history with the addition of Diaz vs Perry to Rousey vs Carano and Ngannou vs Lins," said MVP CEO Nakisa Bidarian in a release. " Nate Diaz is the real BMF, and Mike Perry is the ‘King of Violence.
’ This will be a war from the first press conference all the way to the end when one of them has their hand raised. ” Diaz will return to MMA for the first time since September 2022, when he ended his Octagon tenure with a fourth-round submission victory over Tony Ferguson at UFC 279. The Stockton, California, native emerged as one of the sports biggest stars during his UFC tenure, thanks in large part to a pair of bouts against Conor McGregor .