DANA WHITE has confirmed a serious change to UFC protocol following the promotion’s final pay-per-view occasion.

Combined martial arts’ premier promotion held its eighth PPV occasion, UFC 319, this previous weekend.

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Carlos Prates and Brit Lerone Murphy stole the present with their consecutive spinning again elbow knockouts of Geoff Neal and Aaron Pico respectively.

Each males, unsurprisingly, obtained £37,000 ($50,000) bonuses for his or her viral knockouts.

However what shocked MMA followers is that UFC commentator Joe Rogan advised each males contained in the octagon that they’d obtained a bonus.

UFC protocol for the previous couple of many years has been to tell fighters of their bonuses after the occasion has completed.

And White has revealed that informing fighters of their bonus-winning finishes contained in the cage will likely be a “new factor” going ahead.

He stated: “These two fights have been like, yeah, holy s**t.

“And I knew nothing earlier than had beat it and if the rest else was crazier than these, I’d have paid the cash.

“I’d have simply stated, ‘Alright.’ When s**t like that occurs once more, sure, that will likely be a brand new factor that may occur shifting ahead.

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“I imply, if these fights have been the second fights on the whole night time, I’d have stated the identical factor.

“Someone would needed to been decapitated to [beat that], what I imply?

“I don’t know what would have been larger than what occurred in these fights.”

UFC 319 was the promotion’s first PPV occasion for the reason that announcement of their whopping £5.7BILLION ($7.7B) North American broadcast take care of Paramount.

From January 2026, all 43 of the promotion’s yearly playing cards – together with numbered occasions – will likely be obtainable on the community’s streaming platform, Paramount+.

The deal has seen the UFC abandon the PPV mannequin for the primary time in its close to 32-year historical past.

When s**t like that occurs once more, sure, that will likely be a brand new factor that may occur shifting ahead.”

Dana White on the UFC’s new bonus protocol

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Upon the announcement of the seven-year-long settlement, White stated: “This historic take care of Paramount and CBS is unimaginable for UFC followers and our athletes.

“For the primary time ever, followers within the US could have entry to all UFC content material with no Pay-Per-View Mannequin, making it extra reasonably priced to view the best fights on an enormous platform.

“This deal places the UFC among the many greatest sports activities on the planet.

“The publicity supplied by the Paramount and CBS networks below this new construction is a large win for our athletes and anybody who watches and loves this sport.”