{"id":72917,"date":"2025-08-16T01:07:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T01:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/72917\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T01:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T01:07:09","slug":"one-last-big-ppv-mma-mania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/72917\/","title":{"rendered":"One Last Big PPV? | MMA Mania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">With UFC nearing an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-news\/381774\/shocking-fans-react-to-7-7-billion-ufc-broadcast-deal-and-end-of-ppv-era\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">era without pay-per-views<\/a>, fight fans only have a few high-profile events left before the MMA landscape gets turned upside down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">One of the biggest remaining PPV events of 2025 is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/6\/17\/24450993\/ufc-319-fight-card-ppv-start-time-date-location-dricus-du-plessis-vs-khamzat-chimaev-chicago-mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC 319<\/a>, which goes down tomorrow night (Sat., Aug. 16, 2025) LIVE on <a href=\"http:\/\/go.web.plus.espn.com\/c\/482924\/566982\/9070?sharedid=MMAMania\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN+ pay-per-view (PPV)<\/a> from inside United Center in Chicago, Illinois. It will feature a main event matchup between UFC middleweight champion Dricus du Plessis and undefeated Chechen standout Khamzat Chimaev, and based on some recent numbers it might be one of the biggest events of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">On Thursday, du Plessis joined Chimaev and a slew of other UFC fighters on stage for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-events-ppv\/382621\/ufc-319-press-conference-video-live-stream-updates-du-plessis-vs-khamzat-mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC 319\u2019s pre-fight press conference<\/a>. The Chicago fans proved to be a raucous crowd and the fighters certainly fed off the high energy. It was a great turnout and an entertaining press conference that ended with some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-news\/382639\/staredowns-ufc-319-press-conference-face-offs-featuring-ddp-chimav-pico-murphy-and-more-video\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fierce staredowns<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">When the dust settled, UFC 319\u2019s pre-fight press conference had the most live viewers out of any other UFC press conference this year with 110,000. That\u2019s better than UFC 311, UFC 317, and UFC 314. It\u2019s quite impressive. Check it out below:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">While this is proof that fight fans are intrigued by the middleweight title fight between DDP and Chimaev, does it mean they\u2019ll shell out the $80 it will cost to watch it live?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Let us know if you\u2019ll be buying one of the last UFC PPV\u2019s this weekend!<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For much more on this weekend\u2019s UFC 319 PPV event click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-319-du-plessis-vs-chimaev-start-time-full-results-espn-mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With UFC nearing an era without pay-per-views, fight fans only have a few high-profile events left before the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,42367,33601,638,82,42366,38378,702],"class_list":["post-72917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-full-results","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-319-du-plessis-vs-chimaev-start-time","tag-ufc-press-conference","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72917","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=72917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}