{"id":397299,"date":"2026-01-09T01:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T01:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/397299\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T01:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T01:23:08","slug":"lfa-leaves-ufc-fight-pass-signs-deal-with-vice-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/397299\/","title":{"rendered":"LFA leaves UFC Fight Pass, signs deal with VICE TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Goodbye UFC Fight Pass, hello \u2026 VICE TV?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The first card on its new platform will be LFA 224 on Fri., Jan. 16, 2026, in Prior Lake, Minnesota. The event will be headlined by Matt Adams vs. Arslan Bilalov for the vacant LFA Heavyweight title. One week later, LFA heads to Brazil for LFA 225 on Jan. 23, featuring an interim Flyweight title fight between Marcos Degli and Luis Aguiar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cWe are excited to announce an exciting new partnership with VICE TV,\u201d LFA CEO Ed Soares wrote in a press release. \u201cThe LFA\u2019s mission has always been to showcase the sport\u2019s top up-and-coming fighters in front of the widest audience possible. VICE has built a loyal audience that values authenticity and unfiltered, ground-level storytelling. Together, we will bring the untold stories of athletes shaping the future of the sport to a national television audience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">While some fans may question leaving UFC Fight Pass due to its established MMA audience, Soares believes the move will significantly increase LFA\u2019s reach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cBefore, UFC Fight Pass distributed our events worldwide through their platform,\u201d Soares told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/LFA-to-Broadcast-25-Live-Events-in-2026-on-Vice-TV-199680\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sherdog<\/a>. \u201cNow, we\u2019re negotiating distribution in over 200 markets. In the U.S., VICE TV will bring LFA into 45 million homes. When you combine TV and streaming, we expect at least five times the audience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In markets without finalized broadcast partners \u2014 including Brazil \u2014 LFA events will stream on the promotion\u2019s official YouTube channel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Goodbye UFC Fight Pass, hello \u2026 VICE TV? The first card on its new platform will be LFA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,22248,82,9623],"class_list":["post-397299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-regional-mma-news-results","tag-sports","tag-ufc-fight-pass"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397299","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=397299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}