Announced hours after Paramount and UFC Billion-dollar rights deals, Dana White said he was not yet heard from his friend, President Donald Trump, on his ideas about the new streaming home of the Fight Company.
He was fine with white. The CEO of UFC was designed to discuss logistics on the proposed fourth of the July Fight Card at the White House next year to meet Trump and his daughter Ivanka on August 28 to visit Washington on 28 August.
Trump said that last month he wanted to stage a UFC match to celebrate 250 years of American independence with 20,000 spectators at the White House ground.
“It’s going to happen at all,” White told the Associated Press. “Think about this, the United States’ 250th birthday, UFC White House will live on CBS on South Lawn.”
The idea of a cage quarrel at the White House would seem impossible when Furtitta Brothers bought UFC in $ 2 million in 2001 and made the in -charge of Flexing Fight Promotion White.
White helped the company sell $ 4 billion in 2016 and broadcast the broadcast rights deals with Fox and ESPN before landing to the owner TKO Group. With selected events.
ESPN, Amazon and Netflix and other traditional sports broadcasting players looked more to play for UFC rights – White first indicated that the quarrels could air on different platforms – but the paramount was a serious contender from the onset of the Paramount talks window.
Paramount and UFC deal came a few days later Skidance And paramount is officially closed His $ 8 billion merger – Kick the reign of a new entertainment legend after a controversial attempt to get transactions on the Finnish line. White said he was influenced by David Ellison, CEO of Vision Skydance, who was in a hurry in contract negotiations for the global MMA leader and how should those plans now bloom that Alison is the Chairman and CEO of Paramount.
“When you talk about paramount, you talk about David Ellison, he is a great businessman, very aggressive, risky,” White said. “They are just above my street. These are people with whom I like to live in business.”
The $ 1.1 billion deal makes a remarkable jump from about $ 550 million that ESPN today paid for UFC coverage every year. But the UFC’s new home on paramount will simplify the offerings for fans-with all the materials, which is available at the paramount+ (currently between $ 7.99 and $ 12.99 per month), rather than different pay-per-view fees.
Paramount also said that it intends to detect the UFC rights outside the US “because they become available in the future.”
The UFC matchmakers were set to complete this week so that White said that there would be a loaded debut paramount card. UFC Boss said it was still very early to discuss a possible main event for the White House Fight Night.
“This is a 1 -1 -1 incident,” said White.
There are still some running parts for the UFC broadcast and other television programming, it has hands as the company goes into the paramount era. White said there are still some parts for the deal and included a potentially new home for “The Ultimate Fighter,” “Road to UFC,” and “Dana White’s contender chain”. It is not necessary that the time to start for the traditional 10 o’clock is given the time to start what will be the pay-per-view event, especially on the card of nights, it will be broadcast on CBS.
White said, “We have not yet come to know but we will.”
And what about the occasional issue of fighter salary? Some established fighters clause their contracts to earn more money on their cards. Again, most of those issues are determined as the UFC and paramounts are organized for the new deal-led the way to the fight company with $ 1.1 billion.
“This will affect fighter pay, big time,” White said. “From the deal-to-deal, the fighter pay has also increased. Every time we win, everyone wins.”
Boxer Jake Paul wrote on social media The dyeing PPV model – which UFC saw Buys decline Due to the missing star power in many main events – fighters should give an increased idea of their value.
“Every fighter in UFC now has a clear picture of what revenue is … no more PPV excuse,” Paul wrote“Get your worth boys and girls.”
White also ridiculed the idea that the traditional PPV model was dead.
There are still UFC cards at pay-per-view-views through the ESPN contract and the end of White and Saudi Arabia. Launch a new boxing enterprise It starts next year and can use a PPV house. White, however, is part of the campaigner team to be aired on NETFLix in Las Vegas in September for the Kennelo Alvereze and Terence Crawford Fight.
“It’s not certainly not running this is the course,” White said. “There were people outside who were interested in pay-per-views and there were people who were not. Wherever we ended, this is what we are going to play.”
White said that the UFC archial footage “kills it” in the ideas to be repeated and those classic matches also needed a new home, when the ESPN deal ends.
Just when it seems that there is little left to win the UFC, White says, always more. Why stop when becoming the biggest fighting game in the world? Why not rewrite popularity and money in money and go for number 1 in all sports?
“You have NFL, NBA, UFC and football globally football,” said White. “We are coming. We are coming for them all.”
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Dan Gelston, Associated Press