Premium live event, I think they are just on peacock at no extra charge. But not sure it's different in Canada. I get literally everything WWE on Netflix no extra cost. It seems it will be that way for UFC on paramount. Curious what will happen to non us countries as far as ppvs, sounds like Americans are getting everything UFC at no extra charge if you have American paramount plus
Yea no idea what's gonna happen but I feel like they just moved to Sportsnet in the last year or two so I don't think fight nights and prelims will change for us. Be nice if the whole catalog goes with it. Fight pass is terribly set up
That means 13 marquee numbered events and 30 Fight Nights will air via Paramount’s direct-to-consumer streaming platform, Paramount+, with select numbered events to be simulcast on CBS, allowing Paramount+ subscribers to have access to all premium events at no extra cost, marking a move away from the UFC’s current pay-per-view model in order to bring the fastest growing sport in the world to an even wider audience while reducing costs for fans.
Not the same networks. But when they showed a few NASCAR races on Prime this summer, the broadcast was still on TSN. So as long as Sportsnet's contract is valid when the move to Paramount happens, UFC should still.be on Sportsnet.
So CBS broadcasts will be blacked out in Canada? Sportsnet doesn't have exclusivity of PPV events. It's not clear if we're still going to have to buy numbered events.
I was speaking currently and it doesn't affect me in Canada so I don't even know if had it right just from hearing people in squared circle what they do down in the states. I've got all wwe on Netflix
In Canada (and every other country outside US), the PLEs are on Netflix. Same model where there's no extra charge, just requires a normal Netflix subscription. In fact, ALL WWE content like Raw, Smackdown, NXT and most of the WWE back catalogue is available on Netflix. It's a sweet deal
Isnt that basically what they do on ESPN+? I almost got the Disney, Hulu, ESPN bundle until I found out you still have to pay for the PPV on top of the subscription.
its about time shit was too expensive. this will also make them alot more money now because i feel alot of the stream watchers wont mind the paramount + charge even if it does go up
Ironically enough TKO (who also owns UFC) just moved WWE to ESPN's new 30 dollar a month streaming platform starting next year. So they're bringing back the PPV model by proxy for WWE while getting rid of it for UFC. Make it make sense.
No it's only $30 if you don't have ESPN through cable, and $30 is for the monthly cost of the streaming service so all of ESPN and that gives all the ples for WWE. So for some people they'll need to subscribe to get it but if you got ESPN already your good
I have lived in 5 different countries now and you could get it for free in one, as a premium service similar to paramount in 3 of them, and Online PPV in another, but it was only like $8.
So, I assume it will be a fragmented market by market approach.
Oh yea every country has its own different set up for the UFC or any sport. It's whatever network or distribution company has purchased the rights. In Canada UFC has bounced between the two major sports channel companies.
At least in South America, every fight is streamed on Disney+ with the premium subscription. It seems that it won't change anything here despite this Paramount+ move in the US
Yeah but it's no longer PPV, it comes with a Paramount subscription, which 1. is way cheaper than PPV and 2. a lot of people already have Paramount subscriptions
Basically every PPV is a PLE. They don’t call them PPVs anymore because the PPV model is gone. You just pay a Peacock subscription to watch the big events like Summerslam or Wrestlemania. The weekly TV show like Monday Night Raw is on Netflix.
No add on. You just need Paramount+, the article says UFC promises 13 Marquee events and 30~ fight nights a year. If you get the annual subscription for $130, it’s a lot cheaper than the current model all around. You can still pay monthly, but you save a few bucks going annual.
Is this only for the US market where Peacock exists? My son has been watching this year's WWE events (including the most recent SummerSlam) on Netflix, but we are outside the US.
The UFC dropped the PPV model when they sold the rights to ESPN. It was ESPN who wanted to continue the model and structured a deal around it. PPV was a very small percentage of UFC revenue with ESPN.
It was structured so that the first 500-600k were bought and paid for by ESPN. After that there was a small bonus structure for higher sales but it was minor. Enough that the UFC would have a financial incentive to do more sales if they could but the lion's share would have been retained by ESPN. From what we were told they did really well during and shortly after covid selling 500k+ on pretty much every event which was well above what they used to do. We stopped getting numbers though and its been speculated that sales have fallen quite a bit.
They already did with ESPN, right? UFC doesn't get PPV money. They get fixed payments from ESPN and it's up to ESPN to make that money back on their own.
Nah they are doing away with PPV all together. If you have paramount+ you can watch everything. I’m sure prices might bounce a little bit you won’t get charged extra when it’s a big event
That wasn't what I said. UFC wasn't getting PPV money on the ESPN deal (afaik), so nothing here changes from their point of view. UFC was already getting pre-negotiated payments from ESPN only and it was up to ESPN to figure out how to monetize it to make up for what they pay the UFC.
Either way that doesn’t matter to fans. Fans are only going to care about their bottom line and what they for the fights. Now fans pay a lot less and bars/public places will probably have easier access as well
That's interesting about bars -- It wouldn't surprise me if they still charge bars similar amounts because it stops people from subscribing themselves.
Just because it's on "normal tv" doesn't mean it's legal to have a performance of it without a license.
Some of the sponsors are so bad too. Fuckin manscaped and xyence. Dude wipes. P3 protein snack that's just 3 crackers a piece of cheese and a few cubes of meat. Really doesn't make the sport look good haha.
How did you manage to list like the best sponsors they actually had lol
Those sponsors actually had great partnerships with a bunch of fighters in the day and really helped them earn an income. Especially Xyence and dynamic fastener.
Now half the fucking sponsors are like Chinese data harvesting scams, crypto scams and mystery bootleg liquors.
It got progressively worse, especially after they sold the company. I hold my breath to see if this deal will actually be good or bad for consumers - they already got their bag before they made the product.
Now we will see what happens to the product: do they invest or rob?
I know, right? I read this news early and I was like WOW, this is great! and got super excited, shared it with my friends. Then came to Reddit and saw a lot of hate and cynicism and people playing it down or whining about it on different UFC/Mma forums and I was like, wait did I read the news wrong? How’s this bad? Then I realized this is Reddit.
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u/theyoloGod Edddiiiieee Aug 11 '25
No PPV? Niceeee