{"id":60116,"date":"2025-08-11T13:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T13:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/60116\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T13:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T13:52:08","slug":"paramount-nabs-ufc-rights-in-major-7-7-billion-deal-mma-events-to-peel-off-from-espn-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/60116\/","title":{"rendered":"Paramount Nabs UFC Rights in Major $7.7 Billion Deal, Mma Events to Peel Off From ESPN in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1911103\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David Ellison<\/a>, the new CEO of <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0858764\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paramount<\/a>, pinned a major new deal for the media company he just took over.<\/p>\n<p>Paramount Skydance on Monday announced a seven-year media rights agreement with <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co1044727\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tko Group<\/a> under which <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0820547\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paramount+<\/a> will become the exclusive home of all UFC events in the U.S. \u2014 pulling the mixed martial arts events from <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0539626\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN<\/a>. Disney\u2019s ESPN had secured a deal that, starting in 2019, featured the <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0245615\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mma<\/a> promoter\u2019s matchups on TV and pay-per-view in ESPN+.<\/p>\n<p>The seven-year term, which begins in 2026, has an average annual value of $1.1 billion, with an overall value of $7.7 billion over that period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Ellison, the new CEO of Paramount, pinned a major new deal for the media company he just&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[1975,1976,64,63,447,1977,786,1972,1973,785,344,44,85,1974,434,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-60116","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-actors","9":"tag-actresses","10":"tag-au","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-celebrities","13":"tag-directors","14":"tag-fighting","15":"tag-films","16":"tag-hollywood","17":"tag-mma","18":"tag-movies","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-sports","21":"tag-stars","22":"tag-television","23":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60116","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=60116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}