Samson Sit-Down: Jon Anik talks UFC Fight Island and getting his start in broadcasting
Nothing Personal with David Samson
David Samson
4.7 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You F.C. That's nothing personal word of the day. We've got a Samson sit down. I can't |
| 0:13.0 | believe we we coca I got to give coca the credit. I've never met John John Anikus here. |
| 0:18.9 | He has a podcast host of the Anik and Florian podcast, but he's the voice of the UFC MMA. |
| 0:26.0 | I didn't know him. And now he is on nothing personal thanks to coca. They've known each other. |
| 0:31.0 | Wait, how do you know coca? So through a mutual friend, the more mile family, my late |
| 0:35.9 | great boss at ESPN Anthony, more mile and his son Mikey is very close with Matthew coca. |
| 0:41.0 | So there's probably nothing in this world that coca could ask of me that I would not turn |
| 0:45.0 | around and try to provide for that young man. So more than happy to be with you today. |
| 0:49.3 | And to see coca there for a brief minute before we got started. |
| 0:52.3 | So the six degrees Mikey people nothing personal fans know when I talk about Mikey |
| 0:57.3 | because he's involved with nothing personal during doing the helping with the mailbag pod |
| 1:01.4 | at the end of every month. So I know Mikey well and his father was a giant in the industry. |
| 1:06.5 | And certainly his tentacles are still all over CBS and he has sports HQ and coca is a direct |
| 1:12.0 | descendent of the sort of more meal tree of knowledge. And he's now been producing nothing |
| 1:18.1 | personal since we started and knowing my view of fight Island and MMA and my interest |
| 1:24.4 | in my renewed interest in it. Actually, that's not true. It's not renewed. It's new brand |
| 1:29.1 | new interest in it. And so I'm thankful you're here. I got to get right into it with you |
| 1:33.2 | because I don't want to waste a second of your time or our audience. You were on fight |
| 1:38.4 | Island, weren't you? I was. I was there for the first two shows and the company in quarantine |
| 1:43.9 | on the front end flew from Miami to Vegas. First I do live in South Florida where a lot |
| 1:48.4 | of your co-workers reside. So we flew to Vegas to the 36 hour quarantine there. Once we got |
| 1:54.2 | to Abu Dhabi, it was a 48 hour quarantine in our room. And I got to tell you man, it's |
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