You're listening to the Co-Main Event Podcast.

And now your host, Ben Folks and Chad Dundas.

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You're listening to another episode of the Co-M event Mixed Martial Arts podcast. I'm Chad Dundas. That's Ben Fulks. We are longtime MMA journalists. And for the last 13 years, we've been meeting here every week to break down all the action in the wild, weird, and occasionally wonderful

world of mixed martial arts, Ben, big show this week. Very big show. We finally got answers

this week to one of the biggest questions in MMA over, I guess at this point, the last couple years.

And the answer that we got was relatively shocking.

As Monday, we learned that in 26, when its current broadcast deal expires,

UFC events will be moving off of ESPN and more or less exclusively onto Paramount

Plus, at least in the US, with some events simulcast on CBS.

And man, there are some potentially huge implications which we will talk about today. So it probably goes without

saying that that'll take up a good portion, maybe all of this show. I don't know. But we've

also got UFC 319 this weekend because it all happens at once when it rains, it pours. So we will... Just weeks. Weeks of nothing. Yep. Weeks of dog shit, apex cards. Weeks of scrounging around and be like, you and me sending each other email. Like, I don't know what the fuck we're going to talk about this week. And then all at once, here we go. Yeah. So hopefully we can get to UFC 319. We also got some listener mail,

of course. We will try to squeeze that in as we go. Basically, it was not a great week to send

us listener mail, which we apologize for. So we will try to get to your questions. Eventually,

I promise today, this week might be a little bit tight because the UFC is heading to Paramount.

And, Ben, one thing that we did expect is that this would be an absolute mega deal.

And it is with a seven-year, $7.7 billion announcement on Monday. though people keep saying that this is, quote,

heavily backloaded. So take that for what it's worth. And of course, perhaps most shocking

of it all, at least according to the initial announcement, though the plot on this has

thickened a bit as Monday wore on yesterday, at least the potential

move away from pay-per-view and the idea that if you sign up for Paramount Plus at whatever

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