The UFC has struck a huge deal with Paramount and CBS to broadcast all of its events. Paramount will pay the UFC $7.7 billion to air the UFC for the next seven years and in the process, it has ended the fight organization’s pay-per-view era.

UFC has employed a pay-per-view model for its biggest fights since the very first event in 1993. For the last few years, those cards have been available through ESPN+, with subscribers paying an extra PPV price for each event.

Dana White announced the move on X:

“Without a Pay-Per-View model” might be the most surprising collection of words ever attributed to Dana White. The UFC’s first event on November 12, 1993, was a pay-per-view. Through July 2025 there have been 318 traditional numbered UFC events and almost all of those were on pay-per-view.

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