UFC Fight Pass to add library and live streaming of Shooto Brazil

The UFC Fight Pass library began with a selection of events from the UFC, Pride FC, Strikeforce, the WFA, and Invicta FC. Then it acquired many of the best historical libraries in the sport’s history, including Cage Rage, Extreme Challenge, XFO, UCMMA, HOOKnSHOOT, TKO, King of the Cage, and Pancrase.

Marshall Zelaznik, the UFC’s Director of International Development and Chief Content Officer, appeared recently on Ariel Helwani’s The MMA Hour, and announced that Andre Pederneiras’ Shooto Brazil will shortly be added.

Further, more leagues are going to be live broadcast, beyond Invicta FC, and parts of whole UFC shows, including Shooto Brazil.

“We closed Shooto Brazil which, they’ve been around for 13 years, 50 events, with Jose Aldo, Renan Barao…I mean, when these guys were just raw, just tough fighters,” said Zelaznik as transcribed by Steve Hauser for BE. “So we’ve closed that. We’re getting that library in. And we’re working as hard as we can to see if we can do this weekend’s Shooto event live on Fight Pass.”

“We’re getting some operational production issues, but my guess is within the next 60 days you’ll see a lot of announcements. Probably the next 30 days, of more live inside Fight Pass.”