{"id":125983,"date":"2025-09-07T17:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T17:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/125983\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T17:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T17:41:07","slug":"canada-and-australia-will-continue-to-shell-out-for-ufc-pay-per-views","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/125983\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada and Australia will continue to shell out for UFC pay-per-views"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">With the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-news\/381748\/ufc-signs-broadcast-deal-with-paramount-cbs-ends-pay-per-view-model\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">broadcast deal with Paramount CBS,<\/a> the pay-per-view era of UFC is coming to an end! Or at least it is for lucky U.S. fans, who will no longer have to pay 80 dollars for every numbered event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">That\u2019s not the case for every other market, though. UFC Senior VP of International and Content David Shaw was on hand following the promotion\u2019s big Paris, France event to answer media questions, and one thing he clarified was that PPVs will continue to be a thing in many international markets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cWhat we\u2019ve changed with Paramount with the deal in the US, we just changed the distribution platform for our content,\u201d Shaw said. \u201cSo, PPV will no longer exist in the US. We\u2019ve still got vibrant PPV businesses in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and a number of other places.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Too bad for Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand fans, who are still expected to spend $80, $60, and $40 per event respectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It makes sense. Paramount CBS is paying $7.7 billion for the UFC\u2019s U.S. broadcast rights only. The promotion has dozens of international deals in place under their own terms, and that doesn\u2019t change just out of some general sense of fairness to fans. It still sucks for those of us stuck behind a pay-per-view paywall while Americans are about to get all Fight Nights and numbered events for just $12.99 a month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The good news is this may just be temporary. One specific detail mentioned during the press run for the Paramount CBS \/ UFC partnership was that Paramount has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-news\/381758\/ufc-paramount-cbs-deal-details-head-promises-amazing-experience-for-fans-of-the-ufc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first dibs on any international rights<\/a> that expire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For U.S. fans, Paramount+ is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/771361\/paramount-plus-essential-premium-annual-subscription-deal-sale\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">currently running a promotion<\/a> until September 18th where you can get a half price annual subscription, so a Premium plan costs $59.99 rather than $119.99.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For everyone else around the world: no half price, and no UFC content. Boo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the upcoming broadcast deal with Paramount CBS, the pay-per-view era of UFC is coming to an end!&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85,1396],"class_list":{"0":"post-125983","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-mma","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}