Titan FC to broadcast live on UFC Fight Pass

Titan FC founder Jeff Aronson and COO Lex McMahon appeared recently on Ariel Helwani‘s The MMA Hour, and announced a broadcast partnership with UFC Fight Pass. Titan FC had previously broadcast on CBS Sports Network.

“What better partner to have than the 800-pound gorilla, the No. 1 fight promotion in the business?” asked McMahon as transcribed by Marc Raimondi for MMAFighting.com. “If I’m gonna have someone go to bat for me, it’s gonna be Dana White and Lorenzo Fertitta.”

“No one is naïve. Everyone either wants to be in the UFC or wants to get back in the UFC. That’s the reality.”

Aronson has long released Titan fighters from their contract if the UFC wants them, and that will of course continue. Titan has also served as a home for fighter who were released and want to fight their way back into the world’s dominant MMA league.

“To see the way everybody else does business versus how Zuffa does business, it was a natural fit,” said Aronson.

UFC Chief Content Officer Marshall Zelaznik said in a release that in addition to the live steaming of events, the Titan archive of 33 events will be uploaded to Fight Pass.

“Titan FC puts on great events and we’re happy to make Titan fights available live and on-demand to our UFC FIGHT PASS subscribers,” said Zelaznik. “In the nine years since its first show, Titan has earned a reputation for putting on quality events featuring a mixture of up-and-coming talent and experienced veterans. I’m excited to offer these events live and exclusively on FIGHT PASS.

The addition of Titan to the UFC FIGHT PASS fight library brings the total number of promotions available to our subscribers to 20.

We’re offering a truly unprecedented amount of world-class content on the platform – everything from every UFC fight, to the libraries of PRIDE FC, WEC, Pancrase, King of the Cage, Titan FC – the libraries of 20 organizations in total and live fights from the UFC, Invicta, Shooto Brazil and now Titan FC.

We said it when we launched FIGHT PASS, and we will continue to live up to it: FIGHT PASS will just keep getting better and better.

The first event under the new deal to stream live on UFC Fight Pass is Titan FC 34, which features three title fights:

•Mike Ricci vs. UPat Bam Bam Healy for the lightweight championship

•Kurt Holobaugh (c) vs. Andre Harrison for the bantamweight championship

•Brett Johns (c) vs. Anthony Gutierrez for the featherweight championship

•And the return of Jose Pele Landi-Jons, and the debut of Phil Hawes.

UFC Fight Pass is available for $9.99 per month.