Ronda Rousey has once again aimed criticism at UFC Chief Business Officer Hunter Campbell.
She aimed at Dana White’s right-hand man ahead of her comeback victory over Gina Carano at MVP MMA 1 last month.
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Ronda Rousey’s first fight in a decade drew an audience of 17 million, making it the most-watched MMA main event ever. The Netflix debut card averaged 9.3 million viewers in the United States and 12.4 million worldwide.
Dana White had high hopes for UFC Freedom 250, even suggesting it could rival Super Bowl numbers in terms of viewership.
After the event, Joe Rogan went as far as claiming that more than 150 million people had tuned in. But those figures didn’t hold up once official numbers were released later in the week.
While Ilia Topuria vs. Justin Gaethje became one of the most-watched fights in UFC history, UFC Freedom 250 didn’t surpass Ronda Rousey’s recent Netflix card. That card still holds a higher average viewership overall.
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The White House show drew an average audience of 8.2 million viewers across the United States and Latin America, peaking at 17 million – matching what MVP MMA pulled for their debut event on Netflix, which included over three hours of programming built around Rousey’s main event.
Rousey seemed to enjoy seeing those numbers come out and took a jab at Hunter Campbell on social media shortly after the news broke.
Ronda Rousey had initially wanted to stage her fight with Gina Carano inside the UFC, but Dana White was interested, though Campbell wasn’t keen on putting the fight together.
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Speaking in May, she said: “He was just a f—ing a—hole about it.”
“He was just being such a chauvinist and he was being so dismissive, just trying to get me and Gina to value ourselves less from the get-go, and acting like this isn’t the greatest thing that’s fallen into his lap since he’s been there.
“He was like, ‘No, you guys are just so much older, and I just don’t know how it’s gonna do.’ I was like, ‘Who is this guy?’ First of all, I didn’t even know who he was.”
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