The UFC will receive its first exposure on the CBS network as part of UFC 326 next month.
The network has announced that it will air a two-hour portion of the March 7 event from Las Vegas on CBS, with the final hour of the preliminary card and the first hour of the main card.
The two-hour window will be simulcast on Paramount+, which will stream the entire show, headlined by a rematch between Max Holloway and Charles Oliveira for the BMF Championship.
The early prelims are set for 5 p.m. ET with CBS airing the fight from 8-10 p.m. ET.
CBS’s history in MMA goes back to May 2008, when it aired an Elite XC card from New Jersey, featuring the late Kevin ‘Kimbo Slice’ Ferguson fighting James Thompson in the main event.
The 2008 show averaged 4,850,000 viewers despite five percent of CBS affiliates not carrying the show. It peaked with over 6.5 million viewers for the main event. CBS remained in MMA through May 2010, when Strikeforce gained the network exposure after Elite XC’s demise.
Paramount inked a seven-year deal worth $7.7 billion with the UFC, which began last month with UFC 324.
