UFC Fight Pass is the UFC’s directly-operated streaming service. It costs $9.99 per month or $95.99 per year in the United States, with regional pricing in most other markets. The service is widely misunderstood, mostly because the name suggests it carries every UFC card. It does not.
What Fight Pass actually carries
The Fight Pass catalogue is built around four content layers:
The UFC back library. Every UFC event from UFC 1 in 1993 onwards, plus the Pride FC, Strikeforce and WEC archives that the UFC acquired. This is the deepest historical MMA library available anywhere.
Dana White’s Contender Series. The weekly UFC feeder show that runs through summer and fall. Successful Contender Series fighters earn UFC contracts. The live broadcast and the back episodes both sit on Fight Pass.
Road to UFC and regional feeder shows. The UFC’s Asian feeder series and selected regional MMA promotions that the UFC distributes globally — Cage Warriors UK, Konfrontacja Sztuk Walki Poland, LFA in the US, Brave CF Bahrain, Eagle FC, plus the back library of Bellator events from before its 2024 transition.
Live international events outside the ESPN deal. A small number of live UFC cards stream on Fight Pass each year when they fall outside the ESPN territory or programming window — typically early prelims for international Fight Nights that are not on ESPN+.
What Fight Pass does NOT carry
Fight Pass does not carry the live main cards or prelims of US-territory UFC events. Numbered UFC events (UFC 300, UFC 301, etc.) stream on ESPN+ PPV, not Fight Pass. Fight Night cards stream on ESPN linear or ESPN+, not Fight Pass.
If you are looking for tonight’s UFC card and the card is on the published US schedule, Fight Pass is not the service you need. ESPN+ is.
Fight Pass cost
Two pricing tiers in the US:
- Monthly: $9.99 per month, billed each month.
- Annual: $95.99 paid up front, saving roughly $24 over twelve months.
Fight Pass is also bundled with some UFC PPV purchase flows as a promotional add-on. The bundles are not consistent across cards — sometimes a UFC PPV purchase on ESPN+ comes with three months of Fight Pass at no additional cost, sometimes it does not.
Who Fight Pass is for
Fight Pass makes sense for three kinds of viewer:
- Historical-archive viewers. If you want to watch UFC 100, the Pride catalogue, or any pre-2019 UFC event, Fight Pass is the only legal route.
- Contender Series and prospect followers. The weekly Contender Series is the entry tunnel for new UFC fighters. Watching Contender Series lets you track future signings before they hit ESPN+.
- Regional MMA followers. Cage Warriors, Brave CF, KSW Poland, LFA US — none of these have US TV distribution outside Fight Pass.
For viewers who only care about tonight’s UFC main card, Fight Pass is the wrong subscription. ESPN+ at $11.99 covers that.
How to subscribe and watch
Fight Pass is at ufcfightpass.com. Apps are available on iOS, Android, Roku, Apple TV, Fire TV, smart TVs and gaming consoles. The signup flow is straightforward and there is no commitment beyond the chosen billing period.