Is the empire crumbling before our eyes?

[Dale Wolfe]

I don't really watch much WWE at all these days, just the odd main event etc, but if it's going more towards a TKO era UFC model these days it is not a positive step

The obsession with the shitty little Apex cards and move away from live crowds has mean they can't really build a star anymore, the lowball contracts and pandering towards ageing Jones to the detriment of Aspinall etc, the product has been getting worse and worse for a long time now

I saw that they're increasing the Apex capacity to 10k which I would assume means they're aiming for more of the generic studio model? Maybe that's the natural progression to all of this but the dry TKO fight night era UFC is 80% shit these days 

[The Thread Killer]

Welp…so much for my “TKO isn’t going to get what they want in their next rights deal” theory. As of 2026, all UFC content moves to Paramount+ including their ridiculously priced monthly PPV’s.

That means instead of having to shell out $70 - $80 for monthly PPV events, UFC fans will now get the big “numbered” shows as part of the $12.00 monthly subscription to Paramount+, probably around the time UFC 325 happens.

Not to mention, as part of this deal, UFC will be airing select events on CBS Network television, which is crazy.

A lot of the MMA press are speculating that this might spell the end for PPV events in general, because even Boxing is moving to streaming now.

Between WWE moving their American PLE’s to ESPN for a huge bump up from the Peacock deal, and now UFC moving to Paramount for 7 years at 7.7 Billion, it looks like TKO is literally too big to fail at this point. This company is a monster.

[flyonthewall2983]

The silver lining there is the death of PPV

[sek69]

I suspect if TKO gets their boxing promotion off the ground, however that ends up looking, they will probably be streaming the big fights on Netflix.