In the age of streaming media, the battle to secure rights to as much content that a streaming platform can is certainly a hot one. If you’ve just woken up from a coma, the UFC‘s current linear television and streaming media rights deal is set to expire at the close of the 2025 calendar year.
This pact was supposed to have expired already. In 2018, after a seven-year run on FOX Sports-owned properties, the UFC secured a new streaming media package inside the United States on the then-recently launched ESPN+ subscription-based streaming platform.