UFC prices raising again – 4th time (!) since ESPN broadcast deal

It’s expensive to follow UFC as a fan. Photo: Mark J. Rebilas USA Today Sports

In 2023, it will be more expensive than ever to be a UFC fan.

Next year, the PPV prices will go up once again, as ESPN plans to increase the price of UFC pay-per-views on ESPN+ by $5 – from $74.99 to $79.99.

The Sports Business Journal was first to report the news.

This will be the fourth price increase for UFC PPVs since the organization struck a broadcast deal with ESPN back in 2019.

In early 2020, the cost of UFC pay-per-views was raised from $59.99 to $64.99. At the beginning of 2021 it was again raised, this time to $69.99. In 2022, the price was raised for a third time to $74.99, and now in 2023, to $79.99.

In addition to that, the ESPN+subscription service that’s needed to buy UFC PPVs was also raised from $6.99 a month to $9.99 a month in August. That’s a raise by 43 percent.

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UFC 283 is the first PPV of 2023

The first pay-per-view under the new deal is UFC 283 that takes place in Brazil on January 21.

The card is headlined by a light heavyweight bout between former champion Glover Teixeira and No.7 ranked Jamahall Hill.

In the co-main event we will see a flyweight title fight between bitter rivals Deiveson Figueiredo Brandon Moreno. The champion Figueiredo and interim champion Moreno have already fought three times in the last year, and in January they will (probably) settle the score for good.

The stacked card also features Swedish-Georgian lightweight Guram Kutateladze who will clash with Thiago Moisés in a highly anticipated bout.

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