White: UFC maintaining production control, feels ESPN move will be ‘very big’ for fighters

UFC president Dana White is never short on a quote, and today is no different. In the aftermath of one of the most lucrative days in the promotion’s history, he’s in a good mood. But he will also have to answer a lot of questions about how the UFC’s new wide-reaching broadcast deal with ESPN, which will pay the promotion 300 million dollars a year, is going to play out.

One of the biggest questions was whether the deal involved ESPN taking over production of UFC events. But like the Fox deal, it appears the UFC will be maintaining it themselves. That comes straight from White himself, in a brief conversation with ESPN’s Brett Okamoto:

Per Dana White, UFC will maintain control of its…