News Paramount buys UFC rights. PPV model is dead

[sonhow]

Same price as always..that is if youre stteaming.

Jk

 

[usernamee]

Not even PPVs in today's age are very stacked often. BUT they do have to be putting more effort into stacking them.

A UFC world relying on solely subscriptions sounds to me like a world filled with nothing but mediocre events without the regular breaks of a stacked PPV once in a while.

I'm sure there will still be special events that are more stacked but the incentives and reasons to do them are lower. Nobody should be expecting quality to go up from here. Quantity, sure.

We lived through the golden age of the UFC. When PPVs were a heavy focus and when there were no Apex events and instead filled arenas.

 

[mmacool]

All cards for free on fight pass?

 

[CroCopsLHK]

My main concern would be the champs not getting ppv points probably. I hope this benefits the fighters for sure

And I hope theres still a lot of value to the ppvs, or PLEs like wwe calls them

 

[mkess101]

You will get to watch on your 85 inch screen, Tom get knocked out at the white house by Jones, that is if he gets by Gane.

That would be me watching you have a wet dream. Which is gross, dude.

 

[STAY GOLD]

All cards for free on fight pass?

Huh? What do you mean?

 

[mkess101]

This is how I understand it; it's like how when you go on Amazon prime you will see content on there but some of it requires a secondary subscription.

Yeah but I subscribe to Paramount + through Amazon. My assumption is that I'll get it with the current Paramount + subscription I already have.

 

[STAY GOLD]

It will be a monthly subscription to Paramount & a UFC subscription. So basically $40 a month

What's the source for this? They haven't said this anywhere.

 

[Only Here for Attachments]

RIP PPV bonuses

 

[Blastbeat]

Well it sucks because no PPV means less storytelling. We aren't really following a story telling, media content, podcasts, press conferences, one fighter calling the other out. Everyone's personality seems to have been rendered useless, it's like... A fantasy... Without PPV, it also means less incentive for the story between fights, sagas between fighters, rivalries, charisma from fighters. Also, less incentive to live events as well. Events / fights can be recorded and then broadcast later with ambience sound, rather than having a real moment feeling. Fights may even be just announced and streamed, like "fighters x and y are fighting in a week!" then ppl just access the streaming... And it might have been done a while ago so the UFC holds content to release them without a build up. This kinda sucks.

youre welcome to give the UFC more of your money.
the rest of us are delighted that the outdated PPV model is being done away with. im here to watch fights. drama is for ET and TMZ.

 

[Luffy]

Not even PPVs in today's age are very stacked often. BUT they do have to be putting more effort into stacking them.

A UFC world relying on solely subscriptions sounds to me like a world filled with nothing but mediocre events without the regular breaks of a stacked PPV once in a while.

I'm sure there will still be special events that are more stacked but the incentives and reasons to do them are lower. Nobody should be expecting quality to go up from here. Quantity, sure.

We lived through the golden age of the UFC. When PPVs were a heavy focus and when there were no Apex events and instead filled arenas.

 

[STAY GOLD]

This is how I understand it; it's like how when you go on Amazon prime you will see content on there but some of it requires a secondary subscription.

Nope.

 

[Blastbeat]

RIP PPV bonuses

oh boy that means maybe theyll pay the fighters more

Spoiler

 

[FreedomCricket]

Paramount lmao.

Could only manage a B league streaming service.

Uh paramount is solid. My family watches a fair portion of shows on the streaming service and quality of service is great. I wouldn't consider it B league at all.

PGA, NFL, NBA, etc.

Not having the barrier to PPV will open up better prime time viewing and bring in more casuals.

Wishful thinking but maybe ufc will give the fighters a bigger chunk of money to fight more often.

Plus I don't have to buy ESPN+ until hockey season for a few months.

 

[CroCopsLHK]

Not even PPVs in today's age are very stacked often. BUT they do have to be putting more effort into stacking them.

A UFC world relying on solely subscriptions sounds to me like a world filled with nothing but mediocre events without the regular breaks of a stacked PPV once in a while.

I'm sure there will still be special events that are more stacked but the incentives and reasons to do them are lower. Nobody should be expecting quality to go up from here. Quantity, sure.

We lived through the golden age of the UFC. When PPVs were a heavy focus and when there were no Apex events and instead filled arenas.

They are paid a flat fee. A salary so to speak. For the broadcast rights in US. So that begs my question: Has PPV been solely a US thing? Will other countries have to buy PPVs?

As for the saturation of cards I got to ask: Where do the fighters go? These cards have to be filled up one way or another. We still have all our fighters that need to fight, maybe champs will have to be paid more in lou of PPV points . Do you think UFC will have less incentive to storyboard?

Or what incentive do they have to do PPVs now? Live gate? Publicity? New subscribers? I mean Paramount will lock their asses in, I just want to know what ufc will do differently. This is very committing and experimental

 

[Deadwing88]

RIP PPV bonuses

They'll make it up with discounted paramount subscriptions for fighters.

 

[Luffy]

youre welcome to give the UFC more of your money.
the rest of us are delighted that the outdated PPV model is being done away with. im here to watch fights. drama is for ET and TMZ.

I didn't say drama. I said the storyline. Or do you watch any fighter you don't know anything about? I mean fair enough if you just like seeing ppl you don't connect with fighting, that's raw passion for MMA only. But the story arc, the saga, rivalry... That's what makes fans engaged.

 

[Deadwing88]

Uh paramount is solid. My family watches a fair portion of shows on the streaming service and quality of service is great. I wouldn't consider it B league at all.

PGA, NFL, NBA, etc.

Not having the barrier to PPV will open up better prime time viewing and bring in more casuals.

Wishful thinking but maybe ufc will give the fighters a bigger chunk of money to fight more often.

Plus I don't have to buy ESPN+ until hockey season for a few months.

B league in comparison to Netflix, Amazon etc.

 

[Blastbeat]

I didn't say drama. I said the storyline. Or do you watch any fighter you don't know anything about? I mean fair enough if you just like seeing ppl you don't connect with fighting, that's raw passion for MMA only. But the story arc, the saga, rivalry... That's what makes fans engaged.

drama = storyline = TMZ nonsense
i dont care about a fighter's personal life when they step into the cage. i wanna watch two people fight.
caring too much about storyline is WWE/pro wrestling stuff. just takes away from the fight.

look at the fight night from just this past weekend. people were saying it had no name value, it sucked on paper, etc etc. and it turned out to be an awesome fight night. an all time great slam KO, a really good KO at women's bantamweight of all places, a one minute shootout where both dudes got knocked down, and a headliner that just provided a MW contender in Fluffy whose performance was a candidate for "Beatdown of the Year". now because of some of these performances, i remember the fighters that did them and now i will follow them.

you dont need a storyline to have great fights.

 

[Hassan Mouzine]

Well it sucks because no PPV means less storytelling. We aren't really following a story telling, media content, podcasts, press conferences, one fighter calling the other out. Everyone's personality seems to have been rendered useless, it's like... A fantasy... Without PPV, it also means less incentive for the story between fights, sagas between fighters, rivalries, charisma from fighters. Also, less incentive to live events as well. Events / fights can be recorded and then broadcast later with ambience sound, rather than having a real moment feeling. Fights may even be just announced and streamed, like "fighters x and y are fighting in a week!" then ppl just access the streaming... And it might have been done a while ago so the UFC holds content to release them without a build up. This kinda sucks.

i have no clue what you are talking about. Maybe i am misunderstanding you?

A far as I know (im from the netherlands, not usa), PPV is a payment model to watch certain individual UFC events. Instead of it being on a network tv channel, cable subcription channel or some streaming service where the event is included.....you pay through a 1 time option that is very very very sickly expensive.

This has nothing to do with story telling? You can still hold a stacked event and do all the things you mentioned....and not be a ppv model payment. I dont see the connection between the two you are describing