diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/extractors.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/extractors.py
index e7b93a699f..5ed031833b 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/extractors.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/extractors.py
@@ -1145,6 +1145,7 @@
     UdemyCourseIE
 )
 from .udn import UDNEmbedIE
+from .ufctv import UFCTVIE
 from .uktvplay import UKTVPlayIE
 from .digiteka import DigitekaIE
 from .umg import UMGDeIE
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/ufctv.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/ufctv.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ab823814bf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/ufctv.py
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+# coding: utf-8
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
+from .common import InfoExtractor
+from ..utils import (
+    parse_duration,
+    parse_iso8601,
+)
+
+
+class UFCTVIE(InfoExtractor):
+    _VALID_URL = r'https?://(?:www\.)?ufc\.tv/video/(?P<id>[^/]+)'
+    _TEST = {
+        'url': 'https://www.ufc.tv/video/ufc-219-countdown-full-episode',
+        'info_dict': {
+            'id': '34167',
+            'ext': 'mp4',
+            'title': 'UFC 219 Countdown: Full Episode',
+            'description': 'md5:26d4e8bf4665ae5878842d7050c3c646',
+            'timestamp': 1513962360,
+            'upload_date': '20171222',
+        },
+        'params': {
+            # m3u8 download
+            'skip_download': True,
+        }
+    }
+
+    def _real_extract(self, url):
+        display_id = self._match_id(url)
+        video_data = self._download_json(url, display_id, query={
+            'format': 'json',
+        })
+        video_id = str(video_data['id'])
+        title = video_data['name']
+        m3u8_url = self._download_json(
+            'https://www.ufc.tv/service/publishpoint', video_id, query={
+                'type': 'video',
+                'format': 'json',
+                'id': video_id,
+            }, headers={
+                'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 11_0_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/604.1.38 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/11.0 Mobile/15A402 Safari/604.1',
+            })['path']
+        m3u8_url = m3u8_url.replace('_iphone.', '.')
+        formats = self._extract_m3u8_formats(m3u8_url, video_id, 'mp4')
+        self._sort_formats(formats)
+
+        return {
+            'id': video_id,
+            'title': title,
+            'description': video_data.get('description'),
+            'duration': parse_duration(video_data.get('runtime')),
+            'timestamp': parse_iso8601(video_data.get('releaseDate')),
+            'formats': formats,
+        }