{"id":245520,"date":"2025-10-28T11:44:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T11:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/245520\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T11:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T11:44:07","slug":"paramount-grabs-international-ufc-rights-for-latin-america-and-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/245520\/","title":{"rendered":"Paramount+ grabs international UFC rights for Latin America and Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">A lot more countries will be able to pay one monthly payment for most UFC content starting in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">News broke months ago that Paramount CBS had snatched up the rights for all numbered UFC events and Fight Nights in the United States for a cool <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\">$7.7 billion over 7 years.<\/a> This announcement adds Latin America and Australia to the countries where UFC can be watched on streaming platform Paramount+.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cThe partnership with Paramount has already been incredible and it just keeps getting bigger and better,\u201d UFC CEO Dana White said in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/paramount-and-ufc-expand-partnership-to-latin-america-and-australia-starting-in-2026-302596141.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a press release.<\/a> \u201cThey are now taking on new territories like Latin America and Australia and this thing is just going to continue to grow. It just shows you how aggressive they are with this business, and I love it. I can\u2019t wait to continue working together and building the next generation of talent all over the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The press release states that all of Latin America including Brazil will get the same deal as the United States: all UFC events including what were formerly pay-per-views, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-news\/381931\/how-much-will-it-cost-to-be-a-ufc-fan-in-2026-after-paramount-deal-12-99-per-month\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">available for one monthly charge<\/a> with your Paramount+ subscription.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">As for Australia, it sounds like the days of pay-per-view are not quite over. The deal there included \u201call 30 UFC Fight Nights, as well as the prelims for all marquee UFC numbered events.\u201d So numbered events seem like they\u2019ll still be on an extra pay tier for now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">When UFC and Paramount CBS made announced their big United States deal, they also said that Paramount+ would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-news\/387865\/sorry-mates-canada-and-australia-will-continue-to-shell-out-for-ufc-pay-per-views\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">get right of first refusal<\/a> to pick up any international rights deals that came up for grabs. It looks like they\u2019re aggressively moving forward with a plan to make Paramount the international home for UFC events.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For those in Canada hoping for similar news, you could be waiting for a while. The UFC announced a \u2018multi-year\u2019 deal with Rogers Sportsnet in 2024, with their previous deals being for four and three years respectively. That would leave those in the Great White North paying $29.99 a month for Sportsnet+ and around $80 a month for pay-per-views until the current deal ends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A lot more countries will be able to pay one monthly payment for most UFC content starting in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82,702],"class_list":{"0":"post-245520","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-mma","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}