{"id":68613,"date":"2025-08-14T08:59:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T08:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/68613\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T08:59:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T08:59:07","slug":"joe-rogan-bullish-on-ufc-future-after-super-smart-paramount-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/68613\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Rogan bullish on UFC future after \u2018super smart\u2019 Paramount deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joe Rogan is excited about the UFC\u2019s future.<\/p>\n

The UFC color commentator has been around the sport for more than two decades now, so he\u2019s seen the promotion couple up with various broadcasting partners over the years. All the while, Rogan has remained part of the show<\/a>. Reacting to news of the $7.7 billion broadcasting deal<\/a> between Paramount\/CBS and UFC that has flipped the sport on its head, Rogan was bullish on the sport\u2019s future, and he also thinks the deal will payoff with Paramount.<\/p>\n

\u201c[The sport is going to go] through the roof,\u201d Rogan said on his podcast<\/a> (via MMAFighting<\/a>). \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\u2014king hypernova.\u201d<\/p>\n

Currently, the premium tier of Paramount costs $12.99<\/a>. If that number remains, Rogan\u2019s estimate that a year of fights will be cheaper than two current UFC pay-per-view (PPV) buys is accurate. Many fans are wary of an eventual price raise, but for the time being, it\u2019s looking like a great time to be a fight fan.<\/p>\n

Despite being excited about the new deal, Rogan is a little sad to see ESPN go. In his opinion, there\u2019s real value in having UFC fights alongside more traditional sports, as well as fight highlights airing on shows like SportsCenter. Rogan hopes that despite the break in broadcasting, the two companies will continue to work together to some extent.<\/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\u2014k 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

Recently, UFC CEO Dana White revealed that he\u2019s still shopping for a home<\/a> for content like Contenders Series and The Ultimate Fighter. Maybe Rogan gets his wish and those programs land back on ESPN?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joe Rogan is excited about the UFC\u2019s future. The UFC color commentator has been around the sport for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,702],"class_list":["post-68613","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-sports","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68613","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=68613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}