The cost of being a UFC fan gets even higher. Earlier this year, UFC’s pay-per-view costs were increased to $74.99. As ESPN+ will now also raise its subscription fee by 43%, this news has caused unhappiness among sports fans.

As per reports, the monthly cost of ESPN+ was $6.99 and from August 23 onwards, it will increase to $9.99. The hike is said to be because of the growing amount of live sports as well as original programming on the streaming service, as reported by ‘Bloomberg‘.

Many UFC fans reacted to the recent hike news.

A twitter user was annoyed because they had to watch the advertisements in between the rounds.

Another fan had a similar opinion. They wanted to see the corner reactions. However, it has not been possible because of the commercials.

With a certain chunk of UFC fans being unable to afford PPVs and fighter pay issues being talked about so much, a fan speculated about where all the money was going. Hence, they shared a meme involving Dana White gifting Kyle Forgeard money.

Another fan explained how the UFC affected their budget with a perfect MMA reference and wrote, …Ufc got my pockets in a rear naked.”

One fan realized they would have to shell out more than $1,000 a year to follow the UFC.

A social media user said they would cancel their subscription owing to the recent news.

Fans are not happy with the price hike news. Hence, it would be interesting to see if sports fans choose to unsubscribe from the platform post application of the hike in August.

What are UFC President Dana White’s thoughts about raised prices?

While the promoter is yet to comment on the ESPN subscription price hike, he had commented on the PPV prices being raised earlier this year.

White wasn’t happy with the decision to increase the PPV prices. However, he had no say in that.

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“We don’t; we don’t have any say in that; you know. We gave the pay-per-views to ESPN. So, yeah, that’s their decision. You know how I feel about that stuff. I don’t love when prices get raised, but it’s not my decision, it’s theirs,” explained the UFC President.

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