I can announce somebody and not look at the card and get it all right. Raw energy wafts off of him in squiggly lines. Bruce Buffer spoke on The Residency Podcast earlier this month to discuss how his and his brother's life intersected. There's a lot of tough ways to get dumped - you could be lied to, cheated on, find out via text, maybe even get ghosted - but having Bruce Buffer announce to you via Cameo that your girlfriend is moving on?Fuuuck.That may be the worst example I've ever seen. When Bruce told me this story, he had the same look on his face that he had after he bro-hugged Tom Brady. In the run-up to his climactic roar, Bruce bounds around the ring, getting in the fighters' faces as he introduces them to audiences around the world, executing 180-degree spins that make his bright paisley smoking jacket shimmer. It was the house he'd grown up in. Are you related to the Michael Buffer from boxing? "I don't feel ill effects right now," the. And whether there is or not, when it happens to me, it's like when a kid walks up to me and asks me for an autograph. UFC's White: Miocic will fight Jones-Gane winner, Jones adds 43 lbs for UFC 285 title bout vs. Gane, Till wants to get 'body healthy,' then UFC return, Ex-title challenger Till granted release by UFC, Sources: UFC rebooks Krylov-Spann for March, UFC loses main event as Krylov out with illness, UFC vet Miller suffered traumatic cataract in loss, Inside the long-awaited return of Jon Jones and his quest for heavyweight glory, Jon Jones' complicated legacy of MMA greatness and personal troubles, UFC 285's Shevchenko by the numbers: It all adds up to domination, The two sides of UFC flyweight champion Valentina Shevchenko. theScore: One thing I find fascinating is the evolution of the Buffer fist bump. !" 1:03 Wedding "That's awesome! Bruce migrated to Malibu, California. IT DOESN'T SEEM LIKE an unusual surname, but it is. If you Google the question of how much Michael makes per fight, Google will spit back a report claiming that Michael makes, yes, $5 million per LGRTR (that's Bruce's acronym, BTW). Maybe they were distant cousins? We began a COVID-era relationship. My main-event speech pretty much is along the same lines every time. He didn't set out to do the job this way. If you see my head down, I'm making notes for the next fight or I'm getting texts from production or people I know about the fights. And if I can't work that way, I'm not going to work. People kept asking too. I'm in this game to stay healthy so I can keep doing my work and take care of my loved ones and family around me. No. At least it was. What if Tony and Khabib had actually fought? They'd give the decision like that. For the complete UFC 267 fight card and ESPN+ lineup click here. Dec 27, 2019 Bruce Buffer - The Most Interesting Man in the World Bruce Buffer is one of the most interesting people in the world. But outside of that, I never rehearse. He's the challenger, after all, the baby brother by 13 years. Then I did UFC 10. Bruce Buffer is out of the woods after missing his first numbered UFC event in 25 years last weekend at UFC 267 because of a nasty bout with COVID-19. This Michael Buffer loved boxing too! ", "I tried it," Michael says, "and it was the best thing that ever happened. "You go to an NFL game -- they don't name the front office before kickoff. But it was just the first time. "It said Joe Buffer, with a phone number. As in play the UFC ring announcer? Cellular apoptosis was immediately analyzed by flow cytometry (BD Biosciences . Bruce knows he's lucky. Have you noticed an increase in fighters who reach out for a fist bump during their prefight introduction? ", He decided he needed a way to signal to the fans that all that blather was done with, and now -- now -- the fight really was about to begin. But I'm enjoying the fights. How, if at all, has it changed your job as a ring announcer? 25 years later, Bruce remains the UFC's most used ring announcer to date. And as if things weren't already lousy enough, now the new Bond movie is delayed too. Michael noticed that audiences were reacting to it, and he liked saying it, even though his delivery at that stage would be unrecognizable from how he does it now. Buffer: I like to watch all the fighters, but you have those "it"-factor fighters out there that are just so much fun to watch. A producer from Warner Bros. Let's get ready to rumble for 12 rounds of boxing! I'm hit by a kind of double whammy. You go to UFC 100, where I jumped up and did a 360 after the pushing of the internet fans and Joe Rogan for some eight months. Undisputed GOATs like Tom Brady only mix with the hoi polloi for so long; if he was in the arena, it meant the fight was about to begin. Coming up in the shadow of a legend drove him to find his own voice, conquer his own sport, be his own Buffer. Michael loved the lyrical way Ali and Drew "Bundini" Brown would fire each other up before the fight: Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee! Tighten it up, Mike. His first few stabs were stillborn. LUUUH-ET'S GET READY for some linguistics, shall we? Within a year, the two brothers who had never met before were business partners for life. in broadcaster 2 tags michael buffer, let's get ready to rumble, wrestling, professional wrestling, ringside announcer, mc, wwf, wwe Lindsay Gaze: 'I thought he was playing one of his typical practical jokes', Basketball Hall of Fame enshrinement - 2015 Knute Rockne: 'Win just one for the Gipper', Notre Dame v Army half-time - 1928 I feed off the energy of the crowd. That one little suggestion. So enough with the formalities, let's get on with the main event. 1-ranked Heavyweight contender,Ciryl Gane,and former Light Heavyweight champion,Jon Jones,collide in a super fight for the vacant undisputed Heavyweight title. In fact, neither Bruce nor his father had ever encountered another Buffer until they noticed this silver-haired ring announcer named Michael Buffer, who seemed to be on TV every time they sat down to watch a fight together. Texting, occasional check-in calls, shared links. Bruce's trademark catchphrase, the two little words he has used to open more than 200 UFC main events, might not seem like much: "It's time!" Everything's cool." For the first 24 years of his career as the UFC's Octagon announcer, Bruce Buffer fed off the energy of crowds to deliver what he calls his most impactful "roars.". With mere days remaining until UFC 284, official Octagon announcer Bruce Buffer hops in as a guest co-host for the duration of today's episode of . In his airy Spanish-style house at the top of a small rise in Playa Del Rey, he has not one but two rooms filled with firearms, one dedicated to glass-cased collectibles from various global conflicts and another locked behind a keypad whose plentiful contents he asked that I keep off the record but which he summarized as "self-protection shotguns." Not far behind Sugar Ray, though, was Muhammad Ali, and of course when it came to showmanship, no one could touch Ali. He's ready for home invasion, ready for the purge, ready to rumble. No, he'd answer. I was single. All the same, he was now world famous. You're not going to find that anymore in the States. ET. Bruce and Big Daddy and Little Momma were all there, and for what must've been the hundredth time, Bruce beamed with admiration when his newly discovered brother delivered his now-world-famous catchphrase. That's why Bruce was so sure there were no other Buffers out there. I'm very COVID safe and very COVID conscious. Behind the scenes, UFC fight nights are a bit of a shoestring operation. But because he's a Buffer, the tumor was gone as quickly as it arrived. Please enter a valid email and try again. And then out of nowhere, his long-lost brother Bruce showed up and solved everything. Can you think of anything you want to accomplish but haven't yet? He's been in so many movies over the years, he could do a weeklong marathon rewatching all of his cameos, though his favorite screen performance of all is the one time he got to be someone other than Michael Buffer: He played the villain (named Walbridge) in Adam Sandler's criminally underrated Israeli-agent hairdresser comedy, "You Don't Mess With the Zohan." Bruce seemed to know something about every fighter. But I clear everything with production. His profile page contains close to 1,000 likes and hundreds of positive reviews for the way he hams up the most mundane birthday and anniversary announcements in his full-throated octagon voice. So I showed up, and Trump came over to me. Let me get into that Octagon and boom, let me go run. He also says a lot more than five words for his money. He got promoted to Greenbelt in judo together with his family at the age of fifteen. Imagine growing up modeling yourself after 007 and then finding out he's your brother. ANOTHER FAMILIAR STORY from boomer-aged men about life as a boy during wartime: birth parents who met young, dated long enough to conceive a child but not long enough to spend a lifetime together, then military duty, a lengthy separation that becomes permanent, and soon enough the father and the son are lost to each other, severed, and only the basic fact of their existence remains. UFC 267 results: Live stream updates, highlights, fight videos | Blachowicz vs Teixeira, UFC 285 Jones vs. Gane Main Event T-Shirt, UFC 285 Shevchenko vs. Grasso Co-Main Event T-Shirt, Drake Bets $500K On Jones Finish At UFC 285, Video! To me, the last thing I would want when focusing on the opponent across the cage is some spastic old man screaming in my face. He'd be watching the fight in his private theater on his private island. Then he said, "I think that's your brother.". The UFC started in 1993 and Buffer joined three years after its launch. Bruce lives alone -- "never married, almost divorced twice" is his go-to line -- and he has no children, though he's godfather to the kids of Buffer Enterprises Inc.'s sole employee, Kristen Greulach, and is so close to them that he refers to them as "my boys." Do you ever think about that? Thanks Bruce your rock!! Before he departs, though, he finds a quiet spot in the bowels of the arena and pulls out his phone. $159 - Personal Audio / Voicemail Recordings can be purchased HERE Popular trap and bass DJ RL Grime kicked the Halloween festivities into full swing with the help of Bruce Buffer this week. Acting, direction, editing all supreme!" By choosing I Accept, you consent to our use of cookies and other tracking technologies. theScore: So, when you're sitting cage-side, maybe you're prepping for the next announcement, but you're also enjoying the fights just as much as the person next to you. A ring announcer is a paid in-ring (and sometimes, on-camera) employee for a professional wrestling event or promotion. But his TB12 encounter knocked him off his game, and he stared off into the middle distance as he absorbed it. (Note: Bruce lives alone.). "I found out later that that was pretty standard," Michael said. In a few days, it would no longer be up to him. This wasn't some people, though -- this was Tom Brady. theScore caught up with Buffer to discuss working during the pandemic, his new business, and several other topics.