{"id":47960,"date":"2025-08-06T14:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T14:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/47960\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T14:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T14:00:09","slug":"ufc-on-espn-72-commentary-broadcast-team-set-daniel-cormier-dominick-cruz-lead-booth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/47960\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC on ESPN 72 commentary, broadcast team set: Daniel Cormier, Dominick Cruz lead booth"},"content":{"rendered":"

The UFC continues its August schedule Saturday with UFC on ESPN 72<\/a>, which goes down at UFC Apex in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

As always, some marquee on-air talent will be there in “Sin City” to help guide viewers through the experience.<\/p>\n

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Details of who will work as commentators and analysts for each event have been acquired by MMA Junkie through a person with knowledge of the situation, and you can see the scheduled broadcast team below.<\/p>\n

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The entire UFC on ESPN 72<\/a> card airs on ESPN and streams on ESPN+<\/a> in the U.S.<\/p>\n

The main card lineup is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. ET following prelims slated to start at 4 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n

UFC on ESPN 72 desk analysts<\/p>\n

Veteran broadcaster Dan Hellie serves as desk anchor and host at UFC on ESPN 72.<\/p>\n

Former UFC middleweight champion Chris Weidman, welterweight veteran Alan Jouban and coach Din Thomas join him at the desk as analysts throughout the broadcast and on the post-fight show.<\/p>\n

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UFC on ESPN 72 roving reporter<\/p>\n

Longtime UFC correspondent and host Karyn Bryant will conduct pre and post-fight interviews backstage with some of the athletes on the UFC on ESPN 72 card, as well as report additional real-time updates for the event.<\/p>\n

UFC on ESPN 72 octagon announcer<\/p>\n

Longtime octagon announcer Joe Martinez will introduce the fighters before battle and read official bout results inside the cage at UFC on ESPN 72.<\/p>\n

UFC on ESPN 72 cageside commentators<\/p>\n

John Gooden will serve as the leading man on the mic from cageside at UFC on ESPN 72.<\/p>\n

He’ll command play-by-play and be joined in the booth by UFC Hall of Famer Daniel Cormier and former UFC\/WEC champion Dominick Cruz.<\/p>\n

Din Thomas will also join the booth during the broadcast as a coach-analyst.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: UFC Vegas 108 broadcast team set with Daniel Cormier, Dominick Cruz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UFC continues its August schedule Saturday with UFC on ESPN 72, which goes down at UFC Apex…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,31093,794,786,40890,785,85,787,4908],"class_list":{"0":"post-47960","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-din-thomas","11":"tag-espn","12":"tag-fighting","13":"tag-joe-martinez","14":"tag-mma","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-ufc","17":"tag-ufc-apex"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}