7/27/2023 0 Comments Ufc 265 play by playBesides the hand-written notes, what actually goes into your preparation for a broadcast? UFC: So take us behind the curtain a little. “When I was working for my late stepfather as an electrician's, assistant at Dunkin’ Donuts and he told me to dig a two-foot ditch around the building and break for lunch, I tried to make sure I went down two feet!” And one gets the sense that if Anik were a plumber or a carpenter instead of a broadcaster, he’d still undertake the same amount of dogged preparedness. Add in the chemistry he’s built with cohorts like Joe Rogan, Daniel Cormier and Dominick Cruz, and it’s a recipe for one of the most consistently great consumer sporting experiences on the entertainment landscape. The main pay-per-view play-by-play announcer for the UFC since 2017, Anik continues to endear himself to MMA audiences with a heady tapestry of encyclopedic sports knowledge, polished emcee artistry and a wicked sense of Bostonian humor. The preparation is apparent when you hear Anik on the call. It helps me commit it to memory because reading comprehension was never my strong suit.” I’m writing out these men and women's UFC history essentially every time they compete. If I had a database, a digital database with all of this stuff, it wouldn't force me to do much more than names, records, and add a few notes. “But for me, handwriting my notes puts me back in school essentially and forces me to really study this stuff. Or maybe I feel subconsciously that because it's an open book test-as Brian Stann would say-that I might as well show up with as many notes as humanly possible…even if by the time I show up I have too many and can't read them. “And maybe I'm just not as talented as the rest of the guys and I need to bridge the gap with preparation. “I do think that it's been sort of a cornerstone of what I do,” he explains.
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