{"id":723603,"date":"2026-06-08T19:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T19:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/723603\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T19:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T19:15:08","slug":"ufc-white-house-broadcast-team-set-with-4-hall-of-famers-on-the-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/723603\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC White House broadcast team set with 4 Hall of Famers on the call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The broadcast team for the UFC White House card is set for Sunday night\u2019s historic event from the south lawn in Washington D.C.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The usual three-man team is set to call the fights with Jon Anik handling play-by-play duties and he\u2019ll be joined by comedian and podcaster Joe Rogan providing color commentary. UFC Hall of Famer and former two-division champion Daniel Cormier serves as the third man in the booth to call the seven fights taking place on June 13.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">UFC officials confirmed the broadcast team to MMA Fighting on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Megan Olivi serves as the in-house reporter handling backstage interviews and sideline reporting during the broadcast. Of course, Bruce Buffer is also set to serve as the ring announcer for the event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">In addition to the broadcast team calling the fights, veteran play-by-play man Brendan Fitzgerald is hosting the event from the analyst desk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">He\u2019s joined by a trio of former UFC champions and Hall of Famers with Michael Bisping, Chris Weidman and Dominick Cruz providing analysis for the entire card.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The historic event kicks off Sunday night at 8 p.m. ET with the entire card airing exclusively on Paramount+.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The main event features a lightweight title unification bout as reigning champion Ilia Topuria takes on interim title holder Justin Gaethje. The co-main event is set to crown an interim heavyweight champion with Ciryl Gane facing off with Alex Pereira.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The broadcast team for the UFC White House card is set for Sunday night\u2019s historic event from the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":723604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85,787,1396],"class_list":["post-723603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723603","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=723603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/723604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}