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Jon Anik - Calling the UFC

London Real

Brian Rose

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🗓️ 17 February 2013

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

UFC Commentator Jon Anik joins us to talk about his whirlwind first year working for the Ultimate Fighting Championship, how he has transitioned from being a Journalist at ESPN to a Promoter at the UFC, the hard work he puts in behind the scenes preparing for fight nights and taking 127 plane flights in 2012, and why becoming a father has drastically altered his formerly self-centered outlook on life.

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0:00.0

The UFC has arrived in London.

0:03.0

Today I spent the time with John Anick, who's the commentator for the Ultimate Fighting Championship.

0:08.0

He's been with the organization for about a year, and he had a lot to say.

0:12.0

You know, a lot of you might think that he has the ultimate dream job because you see him

0:16.3

tearing it up on a regular basis when he's commentating but he puts in the work

0:20.4

he reckons he flew 127 times last year and the amount of research he does

0:26.2

in his off time it's really incredible to fathom. He does a conference call with each fighter

0:31.1

where he speaks with him for 20 minutes before every

0:33.6

bout and he had a lot to say about what he calls reps and by that he meant

0:38.1

repetitions and in his mind broadcasting and being successful is all about putting those reps in.

0:44.8

The other thing he said about when he got the call from the UFC is he said, always be ready and

0:49.7

then let it rip.

0:51.3

And I have to agree with John says. says I mean I pretty much try to use that

0:55.0

philosophy in my own life and it was really nice having him here he also

0:58.9

spoke about him getting the phone call on Christmas Day to basically call

1:04.0

UFC 155 the heavyweight championship with the master Joe Rogin and I thought

1:10.1

they did a wonderful job together and I think John really stepped up so I

1:13.8

think you'll enjoy this episode getting to meet him and he's just a very cool guy

1:17.9

and has a lot of interesting things and opinionated things to say about the UFC.

1:21.7

As usual we are sponsored by hover opinionated things to say about the UFC.

1:22.8

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1:25.0

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