The meet and greet was at UFC 306 at the Sphere in Las Vegas nearly a year ago. In the luxury box of TKO Holdings, which owns UFC and WWE, were media luminaries: Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Disney’s Bob Iger and the future leader of Paramount, David Ellison, CEO of Skydance.

The UFC has signed a new deal deal with Paramount valued at $7.7 billion, while ESPN signs WWE for rights to top events starting in 2026.

With its broadcast deal with ESPN set to expire later this year, TKO Group, which owns the UFC and WWE under one umbrella, has closed a deal with Paramount that will make that the new home of all UFC live events starting in 2026.