CME Power Hour: How UFC gonna raise PPV prices AGAIN?!?

The Co-Main Event MMA Podcast

Chad Dundas

Sports, Leisure

4.8 • 698 Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

For the third year in a row, the UFC wishes fans a Happy New Year by raising prices on its PPV events by $5. That's a 25% increase in just a few years. On this episode of the Power Hour, we ask: Will the ballooning sticker price ever hit a breaking point for fans? So far, it has not. On the bright side, at least we can be assured fighters will get a cut of this newly increased revenue. Haha. Psych. They absolutely will not. Plus, in Power Rankings, Max Holloway bows out already, Artem Lobov makes us sad and they're actually doing it: Derrick Lewis vs. Tai Tuivasa. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up, everybody? Ben and Chad here with No UFC event this weekend, we know you ain't got shit to do,
0:06.8	so we figured we dropped this episode of the CME Patreon Power Hour in your feeds for free.
0:13.3	We hope you like it. Remember, if you like what you hear, then you can head on over to patreon.com
0:19.1	slash co-main event and enjoy this show every single week,
0:23.0	along with all our other Patreon offerings.
0:25.5	We have a membership tier for every budget, so go to patreon.com slash co-main event and join the team.
0:32.5	Thanks. What's up, Patrons?
0:47.5	Ben and Chad here once again as the CME's Patreon power hour rolls on for January 7th, 2022.
0:58.5	Ben, in recent weeks, we've been sitting here praising the UFC for seemingly figuring out
1:07.0	a workable run of play for the Just Some Fights era, specifically that it has seemed like
1:15.1	they've been taking pains to really stack these pay-per-view cards.
1:21.6	Many of the recent and upcoming pay-per-views have had two title fights each, which is a lot of gold to put on the
1:28.5	poster with good supporting cards, really making these paper views feel like appointment
1:34.8	viewing. And now, maybe we know why. I believe it was Mark Lamanica from Newsday. Yesterday broke the news.
1:45.0	The UFC Endeavor, ESPN, whoever you want to pin this on, just going to go ahead and
1:51.0	inch that pay-per-view price up another $5 to begin this year.
1:56.0	Just inch it up there.
1:58.0	So now UFC pay-per-views are going to run you $75 if you want to buy one and
2:04.0	consume it the legal way. In fact, this marks the third year in a row where we've started the
2:10.8	year by increasing pay-per-view prices by $5. What's your initial reaction here to this price increase?
2:18.9	Well, at this point, maybe we shouldn't be surprised anymore, right?
2:22.6	I mean, it does seem like they've established a real pattern three years in a row.
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