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[MaestroMike]

Dana White On How UFC Landed A $7.7 Billion Streaming Deal With Paramount

UFC's CEO reveals why he wanted David Ellison's muscle behind his MMA giant, why pay-per-view events no longer work, and what a potential UFC fight at the White House would look like on CBS.

www.forbes.com

 

[Little Mac]

Amazing news for fight fans.

 

[Rival]

This is great news and I will watch a lot more UFC from now on. The prices were always too much for me to justify unless it was a really big fight.

 

[Little Mac]

No extra cost with Paramount Plus Subscription.

 

[NickFire]

Um, so much for $30 per month for WWE and UFC I guess.

 

[MaestroMike]

Um, so much for $30 per month for WWE and UFC I guess.

You were paying like $85 or $95 a month if u were buying the ppvs so ufc fans will save some good money if you want to catch all the events

 

[diffusionx]

*laughs in goodell*

NFL fans in US must pay $1,600 a year to watch every game after Netflix addition

The streaming giant has picked up the rights to broadcast the league’s Christmas Day games through 2026

www.theguardian.com

These sports leagues abuse us and we have to stop taking it

 

[Avid Reading Horse]

I hope they cancel all the shitty NuTrek they've been producing in order to pay for it.

 

[Ballthyrm]

I hope they cancel all the shitty NuTrek they've been producing in order to pay for it.

We don't talk about what doesn't exist.

This news is great for the fans, absolutely awful for the fighters but they didn't fight for it ¯|_(ツ)_/¯

 

[Punished Miku]

These sports leagues abuse us and we have to stop taking it

About 30 years ahead of you on that one.

 

[Major Insano]

Will the fighters get less money with this now?

 

[Kacho]

I haven't watched a single UFC event since they went ESPN exclusive. Fuck those prices. This sounds much better.

 

[AJUMP23]

PPV is dead long live fractured streaming.

 

[MaestroMike]

Will the fighters get less money with this now?

Bonuses going up but the champions that are draws are going to lose out on their ppv points and can't use how much ppvs they sell as leverage in future negotiations for a better contract probably

 

[MaestroMike]

 

[Futaleufu]

Fighters arent smart so they will be satisfied by a 10% arbitrary bonus increase that 3 out of 24 employees on an average event will get.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

You were paying like $85 or $95 a month if u were buying the ppvs so ufc fans will save some good money if you want to catch all the events

I'm legit curious Paramount+ will make any money from this

UFC got paid big bucks so they are happy

Paramount on the other hand, I guess they are desperate to get anyone to care about Paramount+ lol

 

[Icymanipulator]

They found a way to get me to sub to Paramount.

 

[DKehoe]

Fighters arent smart so they will be satisfied by a 10% arbitrary bonus increase that 3 out of 24 employees on an average event will get.

A big part of the appeal of the UFC to TKO is that you can get those big rights fees for live sports without having to pay fighters like athletes in other sports.

 

[TDiddyLive]

Do they expect this deal to bring in over a billion dollars a year of NEW customers? I just don't see it.

*edited for brevity

 

[MaestroMike]

I'm legit curious Paramount+ will make any money from this

UFC got paid big bucks so they are happy

Paramount on the other hand, I guess they are desperate to get anyone to care about Paramount+ lol

Feel like trump helped Dana get this deal done behind the scenes somehow while paramount was trying to get the skydance merger approved. Seemed like a big surprise I thought it was just going to be espn and Netflix sharing events to get the billion dollar per year deal, never thought paramount was in the picture Big fat W for ufc and Tko. I'm guessing all the subscribers from espn plus will migrate to paramount and the almost weekly events will keep ufc fans subscribed throughout the year and then paramount will raise prices for their service if they see a big increase in subs to pay for the 7 year deal and probably hope they'll break even.

 

[MaestroMike]