UFC announcer Justin Bernard credits Dana White & co with saving his life ahead of second major role

Justin Bernard says he would have worked for the UFC without spending a dime after writing this goal down.

Bruce Buffer has no plans to retire anytime soon and with him being such an iconic a part of the UFC, he’s not going anywhere.

Nevertheless, the promotion’s consistent schedule of events signifies that it isn’t just the veteran voice of the Octagon that gets to announce fights hosted by the game’s leading MMA promotion.

Ahead of Bernard’s second UFC Fight Night task, he recalled how being a UFC announcer was a dream that got here true just months after he visualized it.

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Justin Bernard is down for regardless of the UFC want him to do after initially pondering audition call was a joke

Justin Bernard can have announced his first UFC Fight Night event last month but he’s been cutting his teeth in the game’s leading promotion for a few years.

An audition for Dana White’s Contender Series got here after he only began being an announcer for Las Vegas-based promotion Tuff-N-Uff because that role was the one vacant spot.

Bernard recently told Bloody Elbow that when the UFC call got here, he didn’t imagine at first despite him writing this down as certainly one of his personal goals not long before it became a reality.

“One in every of them was, for some odd reason, I don’t know why, I don’t know if it was because I saw an episode of Contender Series and I used to be like, man, that might be a killer opportunity,” he said. “Either that or Ultimate Fighter since it’s here in Vegas, I’m local, I’d do it without spending a dime… In a matter of months, I got a call from the UFC and I believed it was a joke to start with.”

Since then, Bernard has worked other events like UFC BJJ and Road to UFC before attending to make his Fight Night debut on the Meta Apex.

Taking these other assignments is something that he said he doesn’t even must think twice about it after what the promotion has done for him.

“Even when it was a one episode thing for Contender Series, I’d have been ecstatic,” Bernard added. “So, I’m here for all the pieces they throw at me, all the pieces they wish to try. In some ways, the UFC, Zack Candido, Dana White, they saved my life. I used to be going through a little bit of a dip just a few years ago with personal life so I ride with them wherever they go.”

Bernard will announce his second UFC Fight Night event on July 25, when the promotion returns to the Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi.