{"id":37413,"date":"2026-03-24T22:44:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T22:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/Jorge-Masvidal-says-he-turned-down-MVPNetflix-offer-UFC-has-a-good-plan-for-me-200585"},"modified":"2026-03-24T22:44:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T22:44:54","slug":"jorge-masvidal-says-he-turned-down-mvp-netflix-offer-ufc-has-a-good-plan-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/jorge-masvidal-says-he-turned-down-mvp-netflix-offer-ufc-has-a-good-plan-for-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Jorge Masvidal says he turned down MVP\/Netflix offer: &#8216;UFC has a good plan for me&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <center><!--PICTURE R--><\/p>\n<div class=\"pointer\">\n<center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/jorge-masvidal-says-he-turned-down-mvp-netflix-offer-ufc-has-a-good-plan-for-me.jpg\" width=\"640\" class=\"Picture\"\/><\/center>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p><b>The<br \/>\nUFC and Jorge Masvidal might be destined for a reunion. |<br \/>\nGetty\/UFC.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><!--\/PICTURE R--><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>It appears that <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Jorge-Masvidal-7688\">Jorge<br \/>\nMasvidal<\/a>\u2019s return to the <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/organizations\/Ultimate-Fighting-Championship-2\"><br \/>\nUltimate Fighting Championship<\/a> could be imminent.<\/p>\n<p>On the <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2PjnwQi_0uc\">&#8220;Death Row MMA\u201d podcast<\/a>, \u201cGambred\u201d revealed<br \/>\nthat he was offered a fight on the <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/events\/Most-Valuable-Promotions-Rousey-vs-Carano-111723\"><br \/>\nMost Valuable Promotions \u201cRousey vs. Carano\u201d<\/a> card but<br \/>\nultimately decided not to accept it because of talks he had with<br \/>\nUFC brass.<\/p>\n<div id=\"adViAi\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> &#8220;I got offered to fight on this [Netflix] card,\u201d Masvidal said<br \/>\n(transcription via <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2026\/03\/24\/jorge-masvidal-netflix-offer-ufc\/89296963007\/\">MMAjunkie.com<\/a>). &#8220;I had a very good, nice offer<br \/>\nfrom Netflix, but UFC had other plans for me. I was talking<br \/>\nto&nbsp;Nakisa [Bidarian]. I get along very well with Nakisa and<br \/>\nnothing but love for him for even thinking of me and calling me up,<br \/>\nbut it just didn&#8217;t work out.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had the first offer before they gave it to&nbsp;Nate [Diaz]. It<br \/>\nwas me, and I desperately wanted to take the fight, but the UFC has<br \/>\na good, good plan for me, and they told me the plan. I like it, and<br \/>\nwe&#8217;re going to see it through now.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>It\u2019s Nice to Have Options<\/h2>\n<p>Masvidal retired following his fourth straight UFC defeat, a loss<br \/>\nto <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Gilbert-Burns-91727\">Gilbert<br \/>\nBurns<\/a> in April 2023. However, \u201cGamebred\u201d returned to combat<br \/>\nsports in July 2024, dropping a unanimous decision to Diaz in a<br \/>\nboxing match. Masvidal has teased a return to the UFC on multiple<br \/>\noccasions in recent years, but nothing concrete has come to<br \/>\nfruition. That appears to have changed following a recent<br \/>\ndiscussion with UFC executive Hunter Campbell. Masvidal hinted that<br \/>\nhe has a few options in front of him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had a good, long talk with Hunter, and there&#8217;s a nice little<br \/>\ndeal for me there, so I&#8217;m going to take it,&#8221; Masvidal said. &#8220;We<br \/>\ndon&#8217;t know who I&#8217;m fighting yet, but we have like three good<br \/>\ncandidates there, 170 [pounds], so shout out to Hunter, shout out<br \/>\nto Dana. Thanks for always taking care of your boy. It&#8217;s going to<br \/>\nbe a fun one, and I&#8217;m not just coming back for one. I definitely<br \/>\nwant to do a couple of fights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now 41 years old, Masvidal was a favorite among hardcore MMA fans<br \/>\nbefore a breakout 2019 campaign brought him to a new level of<br \/>\nstardom. That year, he finished <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Darren-Till-73436\">Darren Till<\/a>,<br \/>\n<a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Ben-Askren-42390\">Ben<br \/>\nAskren<\/a> and Diaz inside the distance. The victory over Askren,<br \/>\nin particular, was a star-making effort, as Masvidal set a UFC<br \/>\nrecord for fastest finish with a five-second, flying knee KO of the<br \/>\nformer Bellator champion. His triumph over Diaz, meanwhile, earned<br \/>\nhim the inaugural BMF title \u2014 a belt that remain a popular piece of<br \/>\nhardware among fighters in the promotion to this day. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UFC and Jorge Masvidal might be destined for a reunion. | Getty\/UFC. It appears that Jorge Masvidal\u2019s return to the Ultimate Fighting Championship could be imminent. On the &#8220;Death Row MMA\u201d podcast, \u201cGambred\u201d revealed that he was offered a fight on the Most Valuable Promotions \u201cRousey vs. Carano\u201d card but ultimately decided not to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37414,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-martial-arts-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}