MMASucka · Jun 17, 2025
Searchlights Meet The Octagon: A Look Back on UFC on FOX
FOX Sports is in the process of completing its 32nd year on the air. Throughout the three-plus decades of coverage, the network’s sports division has had two mainstays, the NFL and MLB. Other properties have come and gone on FOX Sports, but for seven years, the network was the United States rightsholder to the UFC.
Flashback: August of 2011: The UFC’s then-current television rights with what would eventually become Paramount Network were due to expire later on in the year. The same day, right as MTV Networks announced that The Ultimate Fighter television series would not be continuing on Spike TV beyond its upcoming season, FOX Sports would strike a deal with the UFC.