The UFC has struck a huge deal with Paramount and CBS to broadcast all of its events. Paramount will pay the UFC $7.7 billion to air the UFC for the next seven years and in the process, it has ended the fight organization’s pay-per-view era.
UFC has employed a pay-per-view model for its biggest fights since the very first event in 1993. For the last few years, those cards have been available through ESPN+, with subscribers paying an extra PPV price for each event.
