podcast<\/a> when asked if the new deal could help grow MMA. \u201cAnd it\u2019s a super smart move for Paramount. What a great move to not just have the UFC for seven years, but to have it for free. How much does it cost a month? Ten bucks, let\u2019s say it\u2019s ten bucks. That\u2019s crazy. That\u2019s a $120 a year, you can watch every UFC pay-per-view? Two UFC pay-per-views is, like, 140 bucks, right? Isn\u2019t it? Aren\u2019t they, like, $70? So you get all of them. Everything\u2019s free? That\u2019s incredible. This sport is going to go f*cking hypernova.<\/p>\nIt is not yet known if Paramount will increase the cost of its highest subscription tier in the wake of the multi-billion dollar deal, or if it will introduce a new tier specifically to address the influx of UFC fans checking out the Paramount+ service for the first time. The deal begins on Jan. 1 of next year, signaling the end of the UFC\u2019s broadcasting partnership with ESPN that began in 2019.<\/p>\n
ESPN\u2019s relationship with the UFC saw them air the organization\u2019s events on their television network as well as the ESPN+ streaming service, with pay-per-views exclusively available for purchase through ESPN+. The sports news giant also provided wall-to-wall coverage of UFC events and employed ex-fighters such as Daniel Cormier as on-screen pundits, but it\u2019s unclear how the coverage might change now that UFC has moved on to a new broadcast deal.<\/p>\n
In a perfect world, Rogan would like to see ESPN and UFC can continue to work together to grow MMA.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m kind of bummed out, and I hope they don\u2019t lose the relationship that they had with ESPN with all their MMA shows,\u201d Rogan said. \u201cI hope they don\u2019t go, like, \u2018F*ck them. They went to Paramount.\u2019 I hope it\u2019s a mutually beneficial thing, like the UFC at least does some content still on ESPN, because I think that\u2019s also a big factor in pulling people from casual viewers that watch other sports that might occasionally watch a UFC fight and then they see, like, Dustin Poirier vs. Max Holloway and they\u2019re like, \u2018Holy shit.\u2019 And then they\u2019re hooked. Having that coverage on SportsCenter, that shit\u2019s huge. Having those post-fight shows on ESPN+, that shit is huge for the real dorks like me, that\u2019s huge.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joe Rogan has been with the UFC through several different broadcast partnerships, from Spike TV to FOX to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85,787,1396],"class_list":{"0":"post-65704","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-latest-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-ufc","15":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65704","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=65704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}