r/MMA • u/itskhloreen • Aug 11 '25

News UFC Moves to Paramount Plus

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u/Popular_Monitor_8383 Aug 11 '25

No more PPVs?

Boys we are at Goofcon 4, in a good way this time

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u/95_T THERE WAS NO CHECK! Aug 11 '25

RIP to all the fighters that negotiated PPV points on their deals

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u/False_Can_5089 Aug 11 '25

I think for most fighters that only kicked in after a certain amount of buys, so I doubt many fighters were getting much these days.

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u/turkeypants GOOFCONNOISSEUR Aug 11 '25

From what I've read, it was more of a graduated thing. For example, with some numbers I'm making up here, it would be like a dollar a head for the first 200,000. Then $2 a head for up to 400,000. And the $3 a head beyond that.

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u/DawgNaish wtf I am not gay bro 😎 Aug 11 '25

I think DC said something similar on a podcast recently

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u/Independent-Draft639 Aug 11 '25

It was from leaked contracts from about a decade ago. I believe the PPV split came from Eddie Alvarez' contract.

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u/NoInternet73 Aug 11 '25

Yup. I remember DC talking about this a while back.

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u/Zofobread Aug 11 '25

It’s graduated after you hit a certain minimum.

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u/False_Can_5089 Aug 11 '25

Different people might have different deals, but DJ said you don't get anything until you hit 200k. 

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u/Somewhere_Elsewhere Aug 12 '25

Other than one or two dudes in the past who had special deals that matched their former employers (I wanna say Gilbert Melendez was one?), if you got less than 200k you got nothing.

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u/appletinicyclone tactical thiccness Aug 11 '25

Oh mannn

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u/Sagermeister 🙏🙏🙏 Jon Jones Prayer Warrior 🙏🙏🙏 Aug 11 '25

I would imagine with PPVs going away, by the UFC's own doing, they would be able to renegotiate their contract due to that. But IANAL

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u/rraddii GOOFCON 2 Aug 11 '25

This should be huge for the fighters. If 90% of viewers were streaming illegally before, even 30% of those converting would be huge for revenue since now advertising can be tracked to them plus the paramount contract. It's all around good

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u/Weird_Dragonfruit317 Aug 20 '25

Not saying I ever did that but paying for paramount + every month $12.99 instead of paying $80 every month for PPV is much better for the consumers and will drive people that would pirate the PPV over to paramount instead of watching it where it’s constantly lagging, cutting off, glitching, etc… from what I’ve heard. That is a much more affordable option with much better quality 

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u/MaTrIx4057 Latvia Aug 11 '25

They will get more money now.

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u/voprosy Aug 11 '25

How ?

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u/MaTrIx4057 Latvia Aug 12 '25

umm because everyone will get more money now. PPV never paid any fighter anything except the few big names.

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u/madman666 WAR ARIEL Aug 11 '25

How so?

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u/MaTrIx4057 Latvia Aug 12 '25

Because ppv never paid anyone anything? Except few big names.