{"id":360832,"date":"2026-07-04T11:47:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T06:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=360832"},"modified":"2026-07-04T11:47:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T06:17:18","slug":"ufc-announcer-justin-bernard-credits-dana-white-co-with-saving-his-life-ahead-of-second-major-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/07\/04\/ufc-announcer-justin-bernard-credits-dana-white-co-with-saving-his-life-ahead-of-second-major-role\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC announcer Justin Bernard credits Dana White & co with saving his life ahead of second major role"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Justin Bernard says he would have worked for the UFC without spending a dime after writing this goal down.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bruce Buffer has no plans to retire anytime soon and with him being such an iconic a part of the UFC, he\u2019s not going anywhere.<\/p>\n

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Nevertheless, the promotion\u2019s consistent schedule of events signifies that it isn\u2019t just the veteran voice of the Octagon that gets to announce fights hosted by the game\u2019s leading MMA promotion.<\/p>\n

Ahead of Bernard\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

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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<\/h2>\n

Justin Bernard can have announced his first UFC Fight Night event last month but he\u2019s been cutting his teeth in the game\u2019s leading promotion for a few years. <\/p>\n

An audition for Dana White\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

Bernard recently told Bloody Elbow that when the UFC call got here, he didn\u2019t imagine at first despite him writing this down as certainly one of his personal goals not long before it became a reality.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne in every of them was, for some odd reason, I don\u2019t know why, I don\u2019t 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,\u201d he said. \u201cEither that or Ultimate Fighter since it\u2019s here in Vegas, I\u2019m local, I\u2019d do it without spending a dime\u2026 In a matter of months, I got a call from the UFC and I believed it was a joke to start with.\u201d <\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Taking these other assignments is something that he said he doesn\u2019t even must think twice about it after what the promotion has done for him.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven when it was a one episode thing for Contender Series, I’d have been ecstatic,\u201d Bernard added. \u201cSo, I\u2019m 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

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

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