The UFC White House fight to celebrate President DonaldTrump’s 80th birthday didn’t have the desired outcome the company was hoping for.
Ari Emanuel, TKO Group's executive chairman and CEO, described the June 14 UFC Freedom 250 event as “a roaring success,” but it was recently revealed that the fight is responsible for a $30 million loss.
“TKO’s unique ability to deliver one-on-one live events and experiences was front and center in the second quarter. Nothing illustrates this better than UFC Freedom 250 held in June,” Emanuel said during the company’s Q2 2026 earnings call, according to Variety. “This event was a roaring success for our company, the UFC brand and the sport of mixed martial arts, exposure, earned media, audience expansion and a weekend-long fan experience.”
UFC Freedom 250 saw around 8.2 million viewers in the U.S. and Latin America via Paramount+, and the streamer cited it as the most-watched live exclusive event ever.
In 2025, Paramount announced a seven-year, $7.7 billion media rights deal that made Paramount+ the exclusive streamer of UFC in the United States. This new model ended the previous pay-per-view option.
TKO CFO AndrewSchleimer shared that with UFC Freedom 250, “we incurred significantly higher-than-normal costs, which we partially offset with sold out global partnerships inventory. As a reminder, we did not sell tickets and therefore did not record any live events revenue. Given the event’s financial profile, which as anticipated, resulted in approximately $30 million loss, our margins at UFC as well as on a consolidated basis, were meaningfully impacted.”
The company said that the UFC Freedom 250 was used “to leverage this event and its value to sign up partners that impact ’26, ’27 and in some cases, ’28 and beyond,” according to Schleimer. “So we feel really good about our positioning going into next year.”
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