The UFC continues to break records while they have signed their newest blockbuster deal to make enormous money with Paramount.
As Dana White announced on 11 August, the UFC signed the largest employment deal in Vecht history to show his fighting on Paramount.
The company will rent $ 7.7 billion in seven years, because it kills the PPV model that it has made a household name since the company was launched in 1993.
This Megabucks deal is a grim increase in a deal that seemed impossible to look large in 2012, but now looks like money compared to the Paramount contract.
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UFC's first major media deal delivered them to around $ 100 million a year
The UFC was strictly launched in 1993 on a pay-per-view model, after a format that had made billions in boxing in the course of the decades.
However, television was clearly the future of sport, and Dana White led the company to force $ 10 million in production costs to launch the ultimate hunter in 2005.
This helped grow the popularity of the company enormously and encouraged FOX Sports to agree a deal to show the UFC on network television for the first time.
Although specific details about this deal were kept secret, it was reported that the UFC was paid around $ 100 million a year in the six -year deal for their first large network TV deal to show special “UFC on Fox” events live on TV.
The contract also saw the ultimate hunter passing to FX, but as soon as the deal ended in 2018, ESPN flew in to triple the money from the UFC with a deal of $ 300 million a year for their content.
This turnover increase of 200% was a huge boost for the UFC, but it was nothing compared to their multi-billion dollar deal only seven years later.
The Paramount Deal increased UFC costs to 1000% of what they were 14 years ago
2025, the UFC will end its pay-per-view model after 32 years, after signing a record-breaking deal with Paramount.
The UFC-Paramount deal was announced by Dana White, who confirmed the $ 7.7 billion, seven-year-old deal to show UFC events on Paramount until 2032.
CompanyValue (reported) Datefox Sport $ 100 million per year 2012-2018SPN $ 300 million per year2019-2025 Paramount $ 1.1 billion per year2026-2032
The deal starts at the beginning of 2026 and leaves the rest of 2025 as the last time fans can pay to view the fights on PPV.
This new deal will give the UFC a cool $ 1.1 billion a year for their upcoming events and their back catalog, which increases their income from media deals by 1000% from their relocation 2012 to Fox.
According to White, the deal should see the wage increase of UFC hunters.
This enormous increase is despite the fall of PPV figures over the years for the UFC, because they break records with the biggest deal for every fighting promotion in the history of sport.
The billion dollar from Matchrome Boxing with Dazn is one of the greatest of all time in boxing, but even that fades compared to the Mega UFC-Paramount Partnership.