Jon Anik Previews UFC 288, Cejudo's Return, Talks Nate Diaz, Jon Jones' Future

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🗓️ 4 May 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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UFC play-by-play voice Jon Anik joins MMA Fighting's Mike Heck to preview Saturday's UFC 288 event, the main event between Aljamain Sterling and Henry Cejudo, the burning questions surrounding Cejudo's return, Gilbert Burns vs. Belal Muhammad, Nate Diaz's incident in New Orleans and his scheduled boxing match with Jake Paul, Jon Jones' future, and more. *Note: Interview took place prior to removal of Bryce Mitchell from UFC 288, and Deiveson Figueiredo from UFC 290. Follow Mike Heck: @MikeHeck_JR Subscribe: http://goo.gl/dYpsgH Check out our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/u8VvLi Visit our playlists: http://goo.gl/eFhsvM Like MMAF on Facebook: http://goo.gl/uhdg7Z Follow on Twitter: http://goo.gl/nOATUI Read More: http://www.mmafighting.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, ladies and gentlemen, UFC 288 right around the corner. May 6th from the
0:10.2	Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. The ban and white title takes center stage
0:14.8	as Al Jermaine Sterling welcomes back the former two division champ Henry Sohuto in the
0:19.2	main event. But that is not the only scheduled five round fight with big stakes going down
0:24.6	in this card. And here to talk about the UFC's return to the garden states, the man who
0:29.4	be calling the action on May 6th and one half of the co hosting duo of the Annick and Florian
0:34.9	podcast, John Annick, kind enough to join us right before UFC 288. John, how are you, sir?
0:41.2	I'm doing well, buddy. Good to be with you. It's been a crazy first quarter to 2023, right? We
0:46.4	have already banked five paper views. Many of those have been international. So a little bit of a
0:51.8	pause here in the action and excited to get back to it on May 6th and always good to chop it up with
0:56.2	a fellow New Englander, you know? Absolutely. So before getting to everything, there's one question
1:01.0	that's on everybody's mind. It has sent shockwaves across the MMA community. People have been
1:05.2	reacting to it like crazy from media members to fighters, pundits, etc. As a record, John Annick,
1:12.8	the NFL draft is coming up and MMA fighting for the second straight year. We had our draft
1:19.1	where we each represent different promotions and we draft. And I was given the pleasure of being
1:24.0	the director of talent relations for the UFC, maintained a lot of value with my draft,
1:29.7	got some new horses to the stable. I think you would like them. And then that snake,
1:34.9	that brilliant snake, Shaheen al-Shadi drafted you to one championship, John. It sent shockwaves.
1:42.2	It's like a punch to the stomach, dude. Unreal. Wow, that is amazing. Wheels up, huh?
1:47.5	Lot international travel now. Well, if you didn't like it before, you get to learn to love it now.
1:53.5	That's me. I can be. I am honored. I am honored to whatever degree, but that's fun, man.
1:59.3	It's always a great time of year. I mean, you and I could talk for days about a lot of things today,
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