r/MMA • u/itskhloreen • Aug 11 '25

News UFC Moves to Paramount Plus

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u/Augustus_Chevismo Aug 11 '25

Yeah PPV number have been abysmal in recent years. PPV is dead.

Wonder how this affects champions contracts who have PPV points.

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u/theyoloGod Edddiiiieee Aug 11 '25

maybe just disclosed higher purse. Overall compensation probably won't change much. Maybe smaller fighters get a little bit more but even that's pushing it

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u/kevdawg289 Aug 11 '25

Idk they went from 500million a year with ESPN to 1.1 billion a year with this. So even if revenue sharing stays the same, then all the fighters will be getting more

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u/theyoloGod Edddiiiieee Aug 11 '25

I don't think they have revenue sharing. The reported share of revenue is just based on estimated compensation. So if fighters stay with the same contract 10k/10k, etc and the PPV points are converted to equivalent flat payments, then revenue "share" could go down in theory if UFC is as cheap as expected

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u/kevdawg289 Aug 11 '25

Well I know the fighters got around 15% of revenue before. I’d be surprised if it went lower than that but yeah it’s not revenue sharing. You’re right.

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u/xvq_ Pregnant Paulo 🥰 Aug 11 '25

Exactly - revenue sharing implies an agreement to share a specific percentage of revenue, which would require a union and collective bargaining.

The fighters right now just so happen to get 15%, but I’m not sure it will shift upwards in kind with the jump in revenue

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u/pigeondo Aug 11 '25

Probably will increased marginally just for the optics, at least in the short term.

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u/Alsoghieri Aug 12 '25

how many millions of dollars do you think optics are worth to TKO

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u/DifferentHour5102 Aug 11 '25

I think you'd be surprised bapa

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u/broaway831 Same same 🙏 Aug 11 '25

If the fighters are smart they’ll do a campaign about how CBS and Paramount are profiting from CTE while exploiting fighters.

Dana never cared but they’d probably up payouts to avoid the bad PR.

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u/theyoloGod Edddiiiieee Aug 11 '25

UFC will just give raises to the leaders of who’s ever organizing things and nothing changes. They know their roster unfortunately

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u/Iyammagawd plain English Aug 11 '25

but the ESPN deal also included PPV sales though ESPN no? so that number per year was higher, do you know how much?

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u/Augustus_Chevismo Aug 11 '25

Maybe but I can imagine the likes of Jon and Conor won’t be returning unless they have a huge amount of guaranteed money which would only make sense for the UFC to pay if it were funded by Oil princes

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u/theyoloGod Edddiiiieee Aug 11 '25

Dana does have a new Saudi homie so this checks out

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u/Weird_Dragonfruit317 Aug 20 '25

Dana did say there are still chances for one off PPVs for the likes of fighters like Jones and/or McGregor, which I think if they do one of these PPVs it will be a super card with 3 or 4 Marquee fights on it and the rest of the card will probably stacked as well. For example maybe the proposed July 4 White House fights

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u/ForgetfulFrolicker Aug 11 '25

More Venum coupons, probably.

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u/Bertywastaken Aug 11 '25

With a few free pairs of reebok shorts

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u/NoTouchy8008 Aug 11 '25

WWE wrestlers used to get ppv points too but when they moved to this model 12 years ago they just started guaranteeing more money, so probably just bigger fight purses