40: Oral sessions - Ariel Helwani

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Renée Paquette

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4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Legendary MMA journalist Ariel Helwani joins the pod for a crash course in Octagon journalism. Find out how Ariel got into the MMA beat, whether his kids like WWE or AEW, and whether or not he and UFC President Dana White are back on speaking terms following a lifetime ban in 2016.

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0:00.0	Oral Sessions is brought to you by FanDuel.
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0:20.0	Hello everybody, welcome to Oral Sessions.
0:23.0	Joining me on the show today, this man has been the best to do it.
0:29.0	He has been regarded as the best MMA journalist over the past decade plus.
0:34.0	Ariel Holwani is joining me on the show.
0:37.0	We go back from our days up in Canada.
0:39.0	I met him many, many moons ago.
0:41.0	My days back in the score when he was getting his feet wet in the MMA broadcasting world as well.
0:48.0	We talk about, yeah, just his journey, how he got to where he is.
0:51.0	Him being a huge wrestling fan is love of Bret Hart.
0:54.0	Being there at the Montreal Screwjob, at the Bell Center Survivor Series 1997,
1:03.0	what an epic moment to be an attendance for.
1:06.0	Incredible.
1:07.0	And we just talk about his career's relationship with Dana White.
1:10.0	What his future is looking like.
1:12.0	It's been made public that his contract with ESPN is winding down beginning of June.
1:18.0	What's he going to be doing?
1:20.0	What's going to happen?
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