How to watch boxing and UFC in Ireland

Fight sport is the hardest thing on the telly to justify a monthly bill for, because most people want one Saturday night. Fair enough. So do not pay for a month you don’t need. Every service here sells by the month or the day, and the only trick is remembering to cancel.

Who has it this season

• NOW Some of it Review
  • €14.99/day pass A day pass covers one day of it.
  • €33.99/month

  TNT Sports has every UFC Fight Night and numbered event in Ireland; the biggest UFC cards are extra on TNT Sports Box Office (€29.99 via Sky for UFC 329).

• DAZN Most of it Review
  • €25.99/month

  DAZN has the bulk of the boxing: 185+ fights a year including the Matchroom shows. Some of the biggest nights are pay-per-view on top.

• Sky Some of it Review
  • €34/month (12-month contract)

  TNT Sports has every UFC Fight Night and numbered event in Ireland; the biggest UFC cards are extra on TNT Sports Box Office (€29.99 via Sky for UFC 329). Same channels, as a Sky add-on on a 12-month contract.

Rights and prices checked 2026-09-19. Standard prices; intro offers can be lower.

Boxing splits two ways. DAZN has the bulk of it in Ireland: 185-plus fights a year including at least 16 Matchroom UK shows, with some of the biggest nights sold as pay-per-view on top. DAZN launched an Ultimate tier bundling its pay-per-views in November 2025. Prices move, so check DAZN’s own plans page before you sign up. DAZN plans and prices (official source, opens in a new tab) Sky Sports has its own boxing, with the biggest cards on Sky Sports Box Office.

UFC is TNT Sports, which holds every Fight Night and numbered event in the UK and Ireland. In Ireland you get it through Sky’s Sports Extra pack, Virgin Media, or NOW’s Sports Extra membership; TNT Sports is not available inside HBO Max here. The biggest UFC cards are extra again on TNT Sports Box Office. UFC Fight Pass, the UFC’s own service, carries early prelims and the archive.

The cheapest way to watch most of it

Boxing: DAZN’s monthly plan in the months with a card you care about, cancelled after. It is a 30-day rolling contract with 30 days’ notice, so cancel the day you subscribe if you only want one night. Budget for the pay-per-views on top; that part is unavoidable.

UFC: a NOW Sports Extra Day membership on fight night. It covers 24 hours of TNT Sports and both Premier Sports channels, which is a Fight Night and the prelims. If there are three cards in a month you follow, the Sports Extra Month membership is cheaper. The Box Office events are bought separately through Sky.

Do not put either on a 12-month contract for the sake of six Saturday nights a year.

What’s free

Nothing live. No Irish free-to-air broadcaster holds boxing or UFC rights. Saorview and free satellite will not help here.

The calendar

• There is no season. Cards are announced a couple of months out, so the finder treats this as all-year and you buy the month you need.
• Coming up: cards land on DAZN’s line-up a few weeks to a couple of months out, so look before you pay for the month. DAZN’s line-up (official source, opens in a new tab)
• Recent: Katie Taylor v Flora Pili at Croke Park on 5 September 2026 was included in DAZN’s standard subscription, not sold as pay-per-view.

One month at a time, one night at a time. Sort me out with the finder, or go straight to the source for the boxing.

Read the DAZN review first, and the NOW review for the UFC side. A streaming stick runs both. Everything else is on the watch index.