White Confirms UFC Is Working on Paramount+ Replay Fix

Dana White has a Paramount+ complaint, and it came from inside his own house.

White confirmed that the promotion is working to address one of the most persistent criticisms of its new broadcast home — the absence of full, uninterrupted event replays on the platform.

"My fans were torturing me that they couldn't watch the White House fight event. They're not wrong. But the problem is the music. The music, and you've gotta take the walkouts out. We're working on it. You're not wrong, and I've been getting tortured over this in my own house,” White

Paramount+ currently offers individual fight replays, highlight packages, and reaction content for every UFC event, but the ability to sit down and watch an entire card from the first prelim to the main event as one continuous stream — a feature that was standard during the ESPN era — is not available.

The music licensing issue White referenced is a known problem in sports broadcasting. Walkout music is cleared for live use but often not for replay rights, which means platforms either have to re-license the music, replace it, or edit it out entirely before offering full event replays. All three options involve cost and production work.

The UFC signed a reported $7.7 billion media rights deal with Paramount+ that runs through 2033, ending the pay-per-view model for U.S. numbered events and making them available to subscribers instead. The commercial logic of the deal is sound — Freedom 250 drew 17 million U.S. viewers, with global numbers on top of that — but the platform's replay infrastructure has not matched the ambition of the rights package.

UFC 330 takes place in Philadelphia on August 15, with Ian Machado Garry challenging Islam Makhachev for the welterweight title in the main event. Whether the replay fix arrives before then is the question subscribers will be watching.