News Paramount buys UFC rights. PPV model is dead

[StewDogg11]

Wonder how many cards will be mandated per year? If they cut it back to 2 or even 3 per month the quality of the cards would greatly improve.

 

[Senbonzakura]

This fckn awesome. If for nothing more than having to use mediocre streaming sites no more.

Also having 33 events a year means the roster will probably be cut down quite a bit and we can focus on fighters telling their story and building a fanbase. Also having PPVs on CBS is gonna be nice and easy to have friends over for BBQs now. No one has throw money in a pot to order events.


Well lets see how this goes....

 

[Hellowhosthat]

Wonder what it means for Canada, as currently it's a flight pass early prelims, Canadian sports channel prelims and fight nights, and then PPV

I don't think anything will change internationally they're different deals

 

[Hellowhosthat]

This fckn awesome. If for nothing more than having to use mediocre streaming sites no more.

Also having 33 events a year means the roster will probably be cut down quite a bit and we can focus on fighters telling their story and building a fanbase. Also having PPVs on CBS is gonna be nice and easy to have friends over for BBQs now. No one has throw money in a pot to order events.


Well lets see how this goes....

33 fight nights and the numbered PPVs on top. Total amount of cards is the same as now.

 

[bng]

Paramount? Finally staged fights getting proper scripts I guess

 

[Dn10]

Any news on them doubling the number of DWCS events or what happens to TUF?

 

[jeskola]

Ahhh Paramount, aka Spike TV. Full circle moment. Also the home of Ink Master...

 

[STAY GOLD]

Wonder how many cards will be mandated per year? If they cut it back to 2 or even 3 per month the quality of the cards would greatly improve.

They announced 43 cards for next year.

 

[ShadowRun]

Any news on them doubling the number of DWCS events or what happens to TUF?

yes

 

[STAY GOLD]

Any news on them doubling the number of DWCS events or what happens to TUF?

They haven't made any announcements on that yet. They just announced 13 PPVs and 30 FNs.

 

[jeskola]

Paramount is growing. They just merged with Skydance and a lot of top management is being shuffled. This is a pretty huge win for them.

Maybe Ill have to resubscribe to Paramount Plus after this.

What did you originally subscribe to watch?

 

[Senzo Tanaka]

This works on me. I'll sub to Paramount+ as long as it never gets to over $19.99 a month. PPV has its purpose and I think the UFC should keep it around for the casuals but they should always have some kind of platform with everything included.

 

[neandertal]

Wonder what big stars will be produced in the future, it's a concern with no ppv cut. They need to write streaming numbers etc for events in the contract in that case and with no union etc that will never happen.

 

[Trabaho]

PPV is the proof of whether people are willing to pay live, given the lack of spectacular fights in recent months, this might be the result.

Not true. It's like CDs dying in music. Entertainment is full time streaming and small subscription now. Too easy to steal work. However the convininece of a monthly subscription will have people pay a monthly fee. And if many milions pay it it adds up. And a lot of attentioneans a lot of marketing adds to make money. It all changed and not cause of the UFC. They're are just entertainment like the rest of the industry.

 

[STAY GOLD]

This fckn awesome. If for nothing more than having to use mediocre streaming sites no more.

Also having 33 events a year means the roster will probably be cut down quite a bit and we can focus on fighters telling their story and building a fanbase. Also having PPVs on CBS is gonna be nice and easy to have friends over for BBQs now. No one has throw money in a pot to order events.


Well lets see how this goes....

It's 43 events throughout the year, not 33. 13 numbered cards and 30 FNs.

 

[Black9]

Really wondering how this will affect Fighter pay w/ PPV points gone..

 

[StewDogg11]

They announced 43 cards for next year.

So that’s staying the same more or less.

 

[STAY GOLD]

This works on me. I'll sub to Paramount+ as long as it never gets to over $19.99 a month. PPV has its purpose and I think the UFC should keep it around for the casuals but they should always have some kind of platform with everything included.

It's $7.99 a month or $79.99 annually.

 

[jeskola]

Lol ppl get annoyed by someone giving their opinion. Do you guys have Paramount's stocks?

No, you and your opinions are frequently annoying, not just in this case.

 

[TeenageMutantLesnarTurtle]

I suspect many shows weren't even doing that these days. Everyone just pirates nowadays

i'm totally guessing but I bet the average buys nowadays are somewhere around 150-170k. You look at the paper thin cards, $80 price tag, burnout inducing amount of cards and ease of illegally streaming and theres just no way they can be doing good numbers. Bigger stuff like Poatan fights might hit 300-350k. I doubt UFC 300 did more than 600k, clearly it didnt do as well as 100 and 200 or they would have made the numbers public.