{"id":373114,"date":"2021-01-13T08:50:44","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T16:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=373114"},"modified":"2021-01-13T08:50:44","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T16:50:44","slug":"commentary-teams-set-for-ufc-fight-island-triple-header","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/commentary-teams-set-for-ufc-fight-island-triple-header\/","title":{"rendered":"Commentary teams set for UFC Fight Island triple-header"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The commentary teams for the UFC&#8217;s upcoming three-event stint on Fight Island in Abu Dhabi have been made official.<\/p>\n<p>The UFC is set to promote three events on Fight Island starting this weekend. The first will be UFC Fight Island 7, headlined by a featherweight fight between Max Holloway and Calvin Kattar, on Saturday, January 16. Next up will be UFC Fight Island 8, headlined by a welterweight clash between Neil Magny and Michael Chiesa, on Wednesday, January 20. The fun will conclude on Saturday, January 23 with the stacked UFC 257 pay-per-view, headlined by a lightweight clash between top-5 contenders Conor McGregor and Dustin Poirier.<\/p>\n<p>Suffice it to say that it&#8217;s going to be a busy week for the UFC\u2014and that includes its commentators and analysts.<\/p>\n<p>See the commentary teams for these three events below (via <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/lists\/commentary-teams-broadcast-plans-set-for-three-event-stretch-on-fight-island-ending-with-ufc-257\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMA Junkie<\/a>):<\/p>\n<h4><strong>UFC Fight Island 7: Holloway vs. Kattar &#8211; 12:00 pm ET on ESPN+, ABC<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Cageside commentators:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/jon-anik-suggests-interesting-solution-to-weight-cutting-issues-after-mike-perry-scale-fail\/\">Jon Anik<\/a>,\u00a0Daniel Cormier\u00a0and\u00a0Dan Hardy<\/li>\n<li><strong>Desk analysts:<\/strong>\u00a0John Gooden,\u00a0Paul Felder\u00a0and Hardy<\/li>\n<li><strong>Octagon announcer:<\/strong>\u00a0Bruce Buffer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><strong>UFC Fight Island 8: Chiesa vs. Magny &#8211; 9:00 am ET on ESPN<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Cageside commentators:<\/strong>\u00a0John Gooden, Paul Felder and Dan Hardy<\/li>\n<li><strong>Desk analysts:<\/strong>\u00a0Jon Anik, Daniel Cormier and Hardy<\/li>\n<li><strong>Octagon announcer:<\/strong>\u00a0Bruce Buffer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><strong>UFC 257 &#8211; 7:00 pm ET on ESPN+, ESPN, pay-per-view<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Cageside commentators:<\/strong>\u00a0Jon Anik, Daniel Cormier and Paul Felder<\/li>\n<li><strong>Desk analysts:\u00a0<\/strong>TBD<\/li>\n<li><strong>Octagon announcer:<\/strong>\u00a0Bruce Buffer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some fans may be disappointed to see that Joe Rogan will not be on duty for any of these Fight Island cards, but that&#8217;s because the long-time UFC commentator no longer works on events outside North America.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of the broadcast teams for the next three UFC cards on the calendar?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The commentary teams for the UFC&#8217;s upcoming three-event stint on Fight Island in Abu Dhabi have been made official. The UFC is set to promote three events on Fight Island starting this weekend. The first will be UFC Fight Island 7, headlined by a featherweight fight between Max Holloway and Calvin Kattar, on Saturday, January [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":368839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10153,10227,39610],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Commentary teams set for UFC Fight Island triple-header | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The commentary and broadcast teams for the UFC&#039;s upcoming three-event stint on Fight Island in Abu Dhabi have been made official.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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