UFC ends pay-per-view model with new streaming platform

UFC President Dana White admitted that helium did not expect Paramount to go the caller location of the strongest MMA enactment successful the world. However, this happened aft TKO Group — the institution down UFC and WWE — signed a declaration worthy arsenic overmuch arsenic 7.7 cardinal dollars for 7 years. Beginning successful 2026, each 43 UFC events per twelvemonth — including 13 pay-per-view events and 30 "Fight Night" tournaments — volition beryllium disposable connected the Paramount+ streaming service. In addition, prime events volition beryllium broadcast unrecorded connected CBS, Paramount's flagship TV network.

The biggest alteration for martial arts fans is the extremity of the existent PPV model. Now, alternatively of paying 70 oregon 80 dollars for each event, they volition beryllium capable to travel each events for a monthly subscription that costs betwixt 7.99 and 12.99 dollars, depending connected the package. White explained to CBS Sports:

"You nary longer wage $70 oregon $80 for a PPV, but erstwhile a period for $12 oregon $13 and you get each the UFC events positive the remainder of their production, from 'Yellowstone' to 'Tulsa King.'"

With this move, the UFC places itself among the contents that stitchery a ample fig of viewers. Still, speaking to the New York Post, White near unfastened the anticipation of occasional "one-off" PPV events.

The previous PPV model

The erstwhile PPV exemplary was mostly for the biggest fights, truthful immoderate fans wondered if the prime of specified events would beryllium maintained. White tells them:

"We don't person a break, we spell each Saturday. From the archetypal combat to the past combat connected the card, my extremity is to connection the champion imaginable shows. Now with Paramount and CBS we tin bash spectacles similar we couldn't before, and I'm ever looking for apical fighters and the biggest fights."

While it was expected that UFC would extremity up connected Netflix, arsenic WWE Raw is already there, TKO Group opted for an exclusive concern with Paramount. White says that this is not however helium envisioned the outcome, but believes this measurement is person to his imaginativeness of planetary streaming:

“I’ve ever wanted the full satellite to ticker the aforesaid fight, astatine the aforesaid time, connected the aforesaid channel. We’re precise adjacent to that now.”