It may not be as exciting as dudes punching each other in the face, but there’s a potential huge story brewing that could change the UFC forever. Their deal with FOX is up early next year, while they could easily renew their contract after renegotiating, signs are pointing to it not being so cut and dry. Even if the UFC may have dropped slightly in interest after it’s incredible 2016 year, other networks may be interested in stealing away the product from FOX. But with technology and the way we consume our content constantly changing, is it possible for UFC to rely more on streaming in the future? Absolutely, according to Dana White.<\/p>\n
“With technology we’re getting to the point that I always dreamed about. I always sued to say, we’ll take this thing all around the world, build a fanbase, build up some talent in every country around the world, and then we’ll get to a point in time where everyone can watch it at the same time, on the same platform. We’re getting to that day. [on our own platform], on a type of Over-The-Top platform.\u00a0Absolutely,\u00a0[streaming services are]\u00a0all about the change. When I grew up, we had channel 3, channel 5, channel 8 and channel 13, and then the channel Sesame Street was on. Those were all the channels that we had, right? Now what\u2019s crazy about television these days \u2014 I have DirectTV and I have cable, so I have 2,000 channels right? And nothing\u2019s on. Nothing\u2019s on. I think we have the type of content that people will watch.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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\u2014 Dana White (@danawhite) October 13, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n