[Senate Hearing 106-887] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] S. Hrg. Maybe they were distant cousins? Charles Oliveira will never watch his loss to Islam Makhac Jones intends to release 'vicious warrior' at UFC 285. My brother is Brian. It is dated January 9, 1970, and it is stamped "Secret." The UFC event in Brazil went on as scheduled on March 14, though under surreal circumstances -- an empty arena, every word audible, like a sparring match in a comically oversized gym. Both Bruce and Michael choose their words carefully on the subject of their father's backstory, but it's a different kind of care. Bruce Buffer's 25-year run as UFC Octagon announcer has come to an end The legendary MC has announced every numbered UFC event since 1996 However, Covid has struck the 64-year-old and he will. Michael's distinctive slogan, 'Let's get ready to rumble,' was trademarked when they teamed up. So we'll see what's up. theScore: Although you don't root for fighters, do you have any current favorites to watch? It's pay-per-view fight week! Just to give you some perspective on that timeline, UFC 11 was headlined by Tank Abbotts unanimous decision victory over Scott Ferrozzo. Buffer: I have a basic rule in life: I treat everybody with respect. BRUCE REMEMBERS HOW IT FELT when Michael Buffer -- the Michael Buffer -- walked into the restaurant in Brentwood to meet his birth father and his half brother for the first time. This Michael Buffer loved boxing too! I'm not saying now, but there could be a time. And the moment I can't is the moment I'm going to retire. Bruce Buffer is about to break his historical UFC streak, which ranks somewhere above The Undertaker but below Cal Ripken. The collected cells were re-suspended in 300 L binding buffer containing 5 L Annexin V-FITC stock solution and 5 L PI stock solution and incubated in dark at room temperature for 15 min. He's a worker, a grinder, a primal roar. The Shirley Bassey version, not the Kanye one with just the hook that the kids prefer. A post shared by Michael Buffer (@realmichaelbuffer) Across his near four decades in the sport, Michael Buffer has become the face of ringside announcing, and man has it paid off for the 76-year-old. (Note: Bruce lives alone.). Three-quarters of the arena was getting beer. Oops. And if I'm having an effect on the great warriors that I'm introducing, then that's another fantastic compliment that makes my job all the more worthwhile - that they respect me and that I'm getting them going like that. Matthew McConaughey snuck in even later. Telemarketing in those days was even more primitive than it is now: His office was filled with dozens and dozens of phone books, and you just made your way through the pages, one number at a time. He said, 'Well, we're going to have a lot of big fights here, and you're going to be the ring announcer.' Cellular apoptosis was immediately analyzed by flow cytometry (BD Biosciences . He prides himself on being a perfect gentleman from a slightly bygone era, a peaceful man who is nonetheless at peace with the knowledge that "if anyone comes after my family, I'll blow their f---ing heads off." Buffer recently posted a video "announcement" on his Cameo page featuring a message to "Kaylee" with a special "it's time to move on" message from what seems to be a boyfriend whowants to move on and needs Kaylee to get with the program. In the tone of a grateful pupil, Bruce tells me the kind of formative grade-school story you often hear from boomer-aged men -- the one where you have to go up to the bully and punch him in the face. Which he sort of is. Everybody thinks because of my brother - the great Michael Buffer - that you need to have a catchphrase, but you don't. ", As he notes the size and scope of Bruce Buffer's growing legend, White credits Bruce's willingness to do what he was told many years ago and cut his intros way down as the real secret to his continued employment today. It just resonated with me so much," he said. The bed he'd slept in. Everyone did. Sponsors. theScore: Has the job changed behind the scenes at all? I announced the winner, and the guy came up and he shook my hand. Do you ever think about that? Bruce Buffer was born on 21 May 1957 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA. Veteran UFC ring announcer Bruce Buffer's energetic style makes every UFC main event feel like an epic occurrence, and his signature phrase "it's time" has become iconic. He knew his birth mother too, saw her often as a boy, which is why his foster parents never formally adopted him and his name never officially stopped being Buffer, no matter what he wrote on his math tests. Boxing is big in Sheffield, and the cups of beer are even bigger. A producer from Warner Bros. Acting, direction, editing all supreme!" Everyone loved it and we loved it! There were 22,000 people in the audience at UFC 262 and maybe 22 to 50 people in the audience at the event after that. Take my word for it. For his 25-year anniversary with the . Bruce Buffer isn't going anywhere - at least for now. It is also used to let the fighters know that the time has come for them to step into the Octagon and perform. Or maybe not invade the personal space of fighters when announcing them. Salary. UFC announcer Bruce Buffer looks back after 17 years in the octagon SI Staff May 10, 2013 Bruce Buffer did not know he was the half-brother of boxing announcer Michael Buffer until he was. UFC has always resonated, shall we say, far less with Michael Buffer, and in any case, Michael's benefactors at the now-defunct World Championship Wrestling drew a line at UFC: Them or us, they said. $50,000 per fight / $100,000 per special event. There's all these great nights. His half-brother Michael Buffer has been a boxing ring announcer since 1983 and is a boxing legend in his own right. As in play the UFC ring announcer? What better way to announce the birth of your precious newborn daughter than getting the greatest announcer in sports entertainment, Bruce Buffer!!! Buffer: I've always been very interested in the fighters making as much money as they can make beyond their purses in the Octagon or the ring. The "Voice of the Octagon" has quite the vocal flair. All he has to do is open his mouth. theScore: It's been 25 years since you first stepped into the Octagon. After just a few months, Michael packed up his stuff and moved back home with his parents, and his mother didn't fight it, and then gradually they fell out of touch. Five bookings, five cancellations. I tried to imagine the words in that rich, luscious voice of his, the second best in the Buffer family, and it made me ache for the day when we're all safe and ready to rumble again. But it was just the first time. House money! And I spent years developing my own style. The full story, though, is more like a great American saga, not quite rags to riches but close enough, filled with money and guns and fights, foster homes and family mysteries, global plagues and cancerous tumors, Dana White and Donald Trump and James Bond, beer, bourbon, celebrity poker and -- date TBD this fall -- officially licensed bathroom products. And although White might be correct that Bruce is the best in the world right now -- even if he's saying it only to needle Michael, and by extension the sport of boxing -- Bruce is not the GOAT, and one of the most endearing things about Bruce is that he knows it and he can't believe his luck that he's the GOAT's little brother. And if you're with a company and they give you a clothing deal, you're probably going to receive maybe 10% of the net profits off that deal. "Wow.". Big volume, small margins. BRUCE BUFFER GREW UP in the Philadelphia area and then moved to a middle-class surfing town near Malibu with his World War II veteran father, mom Connie, now 91, whom he still calls after every fight, and his big brother -- Brian. It was 2008, and because he's a Buffer, it couldn't just be any cancer, it had to be a tumor with a flair for theatrics -- it had to be throat cancer. Everyone -- everyone -- was drunk. I knew his name.". From that day on, it was pretty nice for me.". "You go to an NFL game -- they don't name the front office before kickoff. "This is the world I'd grown up in, trained in. Saw myself." I'll still go toe to toe if I have to, but that's not my job. You're not going to find that anymore in the States. (A word about the jacket: It's custom-made, let's call it $4,000, from his go-to clothier, King & Bay, and it's such a densely packed combo of blue, lavender and purple that it sort of blurs into blavendurple.) Bruce Buffer made his octagon debut in 1996 at UFC 8, headlined by Ken Shamrock and Kimo Leopoldo. Fasten your seatbelts! But if he made $5 million a fight, he wouldn't be here tonight watching a 33-year-old former welterweight champ stop a human-shaped heavy bag in the seventh round. "He had a big heavyweight fight, and I wasn't the announcer, but I was connected through Budweiser, to get a front-row seat. Everyone wanted Michael Buffer by this point, and there was only so much Michael Buffer to go around, so before they left Los Angeles, he said to Bruce, "Bring your tuxedo and try announcing one of the fights. He just kinda said it. Joe Buffer's father -- Bruce's grandfather -- was a flyweight and bantamweight champion during the Prohibition era named Johnny Buff, who may or may not have been mixed up in organized crime, and who may or may not have been Joe Buffer's actual father. 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. overnight and vacuumed. The lights dim, and as he makes his way toward the ring, the speakers blast something suitably Michael Buffer. Tonight, though, he was here for just one: the main event. Watch UFC announcer Bruce Buffer in a Cameo video to deliver some relationship news. How weird was this? Instead he's rewatching a comedy favorite for the third time, "Derry Girls," a sitcom set in 1990s Northern Ireland, featuring a cast with accents thicker than a Sheffield fight fan's. At least it was. 7. On a dare years ago, Bruce landed a 360 spin, but he is 62 now, and those were the spins of a younger man. December 13, 2020 5:00 pm ET. Atlantic City, the boxing mecca of the East Coast in that era, was just 60 miles from Philly, so Michael began writing to all of the hotels that were hosting fights, and he slipped in his headshot before he mailed the envelope. We began a COVID-era relationship. theScore caught up with Buffer to discuss working during the pandemic, his new business, and several other topics. theScore: The COVID-19 pandemic has affected all of our lives over the past 15 months. A perpetual motion machine has been brought to a sudden halt. MMA divisional rankings: How big a boost was Blanchfield's stunning win? theScore: He can probably make it happen. It's a measure of what a force majeure this virus is that it could force a majeure like Bruce Buffer into isolation. Search Type add_circle_outline. It's phenomenal. "It was a spectacle. 106-887 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2001 ========= Both Bruce and his brother Michael have unique voices and catch phrases that have made them the two most successful and well-known ring announces ever. "I had a great life. It wasn't until maybe a couple years later that I developed, "It's time," as my catchphrase for the main event. The real figure is closer to $30,000, money Michael doesn't really need, but he loves his work. Trust me. Rumble, young man, rumble -- whooo! The only moment of awkwardness came when Michael and Joe tried to sort out what to call Joe, since Michael wasn't comfortable with "Dad" and Joe wasn't comfortable with his son calling him Joe. I said no. $159 - Personal Audio / Voicemail Recordings can be purchased HERE One time he was watching with his sons, and the nitwit ring announcer muffed all the drama on a split decision by announcing the winner's two cards first, followed by the lone dissent. That trademark has earned Michael hundreds of millions of dollars in royalties over the years. Bruce Ingham, "Ethno-linguistic Links between Southern Iraq and Khuzistan," in McLachlan, Boundaries of Modern Iran, 95. During rounds, his attention never wavered. 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! "You're gonna need to do closed captioning," he warned via text. Everything's cool." Bruce Buffer Q&A: Working during COVID-19, desire to announce at Super Bowl, Get the latest trending sports news daily in your inbox, Re-examining Jon Jones' major career comebacks. And then when I go out and do my thing and I get them going, it creates whatever it creates. "Old breed to the hilt -- a combination of John Wayne, Errol Flynn and Steve McQueen rolled up into one" is how Bruce described him to me. Even $100,000 would be kind of absurd, they agreed. theScore: You've done a lot outside the UFC. Bruce has been steeped in fighting and poker and guns and martial arts and all manner of manly pursuits from birth. And then, of course, the all-important merchandise line - to have a T-shirt, hat, hoodie to offer back. Boxing was still a major American sport in those days, and Mike Tyson was about to make it even more global. HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION SUPER FIGHT! -- Bruce spins 180 degrees back the other way and points to the red corner. Everything. Then I guest starred on Friends, and right after that they asked me back for UFC 13. Search Text. Bruce's obsession with the Connery and Roger Moore eras of the franchise is all over the walls of his house -- giant, vintage, hand-painted, absolutely gorgeous silk posters -- but the connection to his brother isn't just his own hero worship. The officer took one look at Michael Huber's birth certificate, noticed that it said Buffer, not Huber, and issued an order: You're Michael Buffer now, soldier. The turning point for Bruce, in fact, had nothing to do with UFC. 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. But I'm not going to retire. By the way, Michael Buffer is available on the same website, charging $299. But UFC announcer Bruce Buffer also brings it with his stylish array of suits and tuxedos in the octagon and away from it as well. Bruce Buffer's introductions in the McGregor/RDA fight If McGregor does fight RDA without relinquishing his Featherweight title, Bruce Buffer will not introduce him as "defending". I want the athletes to make money. - Bruce Buffer Order Custom Recordings Get your own personalized recorded audio file and/or video. Bringing you the weird and wild from the world of MMA each and every weeknight! 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. On Wednesday, he introduced the world to Stipe Miocic's first child, Meelah. February 15, 2021 4:50 pm ET. It was blood sport. The incredible and (mostly) true story of Bruce and Michael Buffer, UFC 285: Expert picks and best best for Jones vs. Gane. You know the words, and I'd invite you to say them along with me, but it might be a trademark violation, and so, ladies and gentlemen, viewers around the world, LUUUH-ets GET RRREADY TO RUMMM-BULLL! ", "HIS STYLE, HIS PRESENTATION, his delivery, everything that Bruce Buffer does -- he's become an absolute master, and he's the absolute best in the world right now," Dana White declared to me. To be fair, it was a long night. theScore: Over the years, your main-event speech has gotten tweaked once in a while. Age. UFC announcer Bruce Buffer is available on Cameo.com for $349 a pop. In case you were looking for another reason to despise COVID-19, Veteran Voice of the Octagon, Bruce Buffer, was struck down by coronavirus and removed from the UFC 267 fight card, which takes place this Sat. It was the house he'd grown up in. Bruce Buffer can sure hype up fighters seconds before they throw down in a cage, but he also can bring that talent to real-life situations. Share the best GIFs now >>> "And I'm like, What the f---?". That changes over the years. He's ready for home invasion, ready for the purge, ready to rumble. Defined by Merriam-Webster as "the rhythmic and intonational aspect of language." "When I took over the production, you had these guys who had been doing their thing for a long time and some of the guys in the production staff weren't listening to me. I'm young, I'm handsome, I'm fast, I can't possibly be beat! The legendary. Imagine growing up modeling yourself after 007 and then finding out he's your brother. "Let's see, how old was I? 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. theScore: You recently launched Millions.co, a social e-commerce platform that connects athletes with fans. More at IMDbPro Contact info Agent info Resume Born May 21, 1957 Add to list Known for Here Comes the Boom 6.4 Bruce Buffer 2012 Holmes & Watson 3.9 Fight Fan #2 Corporate Events; Sporting Events; Wedding Intros; Birthdays; Social Media Promos; Babies Births. In case you were looking for another reason to despise COVID-19, "Veteran Voice of the Octagon," Bruce Buffer, was struck down by coronavirus and removed from the UFC 267 fight card, which. "Yeah, we might have charged more money for the product and all like that, but it's just the way it was," he said. 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. fueling the climate crisis: examining big oil's prices, profits, and pledges 117th congress (2021-2022) Advertisement. The UFC is a very well-oiled machine, and everybody is in there to do the best job that they can do. -47 6 more replies [deleted] 1 yr. ago Yeah, I sneezed and dislocated my shoulder. I plan on being there for 10 or more years from now. This is the beauty of the UFC and all the entertainment it brings and what Dana White and the powers that be put together for us. They're an amazing group of people. 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. With his golden skin, sweep of silver hair and remarkably even blood pressure, he gives off an air of Sean Connery-era James Bond enjoying the semi-retired life in Calabasas, California. He is the half brother of boxing and professional wrestling ring announcer Michael Buffer, and is the President and CEO of their company, The Buffer Partnership. Just like managing my brother, when they want him or me to do things, they come after us. Joe was a former Marine drill instructor who survived brutal combat in the Pacific theater during World War II -- or maybe he was a former naval officer, who saw even more brutal combat in the Pacific theater? If at any point during those 40 years you watched a boxing match on television, and especially if a title belt was on the line, the odds are strong that Michael Buffer was the ring announcer. More family! And every time I think it's been the greatest night, boom, another great night happens. It would go: "The reigning, undisputed UFC Featherweight champion of the world, The Notorious Conor McGregor." Followed by: Bruce Buffer: I started in 1996, that was my first showUFC 8. Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) returns to T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Sat., March 4, 2023, with one of the biggest fights in its history as No. His relationship with his birth mother started to unravel, though, when Michael was 13 and she decided it was time for him to come live with her; he didn't want to go, and his foster parents didn't want him to leave, but it wasn't up to him, or them. That does not come from me. I apologize to the fans that I'm not taking pictures, shaking hands, and signing autographs. Maybe (UFC president) Dana White and I met 20 years ago and he wanted me to stop saying, "It's time to begin the Ultimate Fighting Championship," the way I used to say it, at the beginning of the show, which is fine. He went home to Philly after his discharge, got married and had two boys, got divorced, and sold cars for a while until it became clear he had absolutely no gift for selling cars. It was time to open up his pipes, go a little bigger. Most nights, though, he's falling asleep to a Jimmy Cagney flick in his big, empty, very, very secure house. The UFC announcer was hit up to do an interesting video through his Cameo account, and it wasn't to wish someone a happy birthday or anniversary. He talked to four or five lawyers and couldn't find the right one, and if he's being honest, he couldn't really rouse himself to find the right one. "Empty arenas are in our future & I will still bring the heat," he promised, but like the rest of us, his spirits began to flag by the day. Over the course of the fight card, though, he texted early and often, mostly passing along promotional materials for official Bruce Buffer product lines, including a mock-up for his forthcoming line of deodorant and eau de toilette, called It's Time By Bruce Buffer; his forthcoming batch of bourbon, Puncher's Chance; and his online gaming slot machines with his likeness, called It's Time! 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. LUUUH-ET'S GET READY for some linguistics, shall we? And to me, it's not what I say, it's how I say it. I couldn't even describe the sound of that alarm but it was horrible "jhgvkjernm J HALL" the first part of the announcement was a mumble jumble and I couldn't hear it clearly. We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from. Michael and his then-14-year-old son, Michael Patrick, were both outraged. "It's the same," Buffer said of announcing during the pandemic. Something went wrong. FROM HIS VANTAGE POINT at cageside, all Bruce Buffer could see by the very end of Conor McGregor's obliteration of Donald "Cowboy" Cerrone this past January was the backside of referee Herb Dean, who was crouched beside them like an obstetrician trying to decide when to take over and pull the rest of this baby out himself. McGregor by TKO. No bitterness, no recriminations. He tells mesmerizing stories about Robinson -- how he fought 14 times in 1965 alone, how he was stopped only once in his 199 career matches, in a light heavyweight championship bout against Joey Maxim, and only because cornermen in those days didn't understand the connection between drinking water and hydration -- boxers spit it out back then -- and he collapsed to the canvas in Round 13. But also, by the time he met Joe and Bruce, Michael Buffer was already Michael Buffer. "You can go to look at YouTube for these old fights, back in the '40s. I watched Bruce chat up Tom, and when he returned, he had a dazed look on his face. Obviously, there's not as much research or work as a commentator like Jon Anik, who's going to talk for six-to-seven hours, but the preparation, the preshow, and the postshow are all exactly the same, audience or not. Like a lot of us, he has found his blessings easy to count. Bruce Lee's Letter Bruce Lee, arguably the greatest martial artist to have ever lived, also understood the power of declaring a goal. I've fought this way in the streets, my own street fighting experiences." For much of their lives, Bruce and Michael led separate existences, Michael with his foster parents, Bruce with his birth parents -- with their birth father -- connected and unconnected, as intertwined and radically different as boxing and ultimate fighting, the same and the opposite. There's a rehearsal voice and then there's a live voice. According to Celebrity Net Worth, Buffer boasts an estimated net worth of $400 million. Ngannou laments Jones' criticism: 'We could've been on the s Till granted UFC release: 'Got big plans to execute', 5 biggest questions ahead of Jon Jones' UFC return, The ultimate, personalized mobile sports experience, Douglas P. DeFelice / Getty Images Sport / Getty, Alexandre Schneider / Getty Images Sport / Getty, White: Miocic to face Jones-Gane winner; UFC will 'never' re-sign Ngannou, UFC 285 weigh-in results: Jones heavier than Gane; Neal 4 pounds over, UFC 285 best bets: Rakhmonov to emerge as contender, Till plans to address injuries, return to UFC within 2 years, Jones: I'm 'a stronger version of myself' at heavyweight. If you're here, you're probably wondering, and there's an. Between rounds, he'd duck his head and play some poker on his phone. And he didn't call Bruce just a legend. Click links below for more detail about each option being offered! There had to be a connection. You wrote a book, played professional poker, launched a line of bourbon, and much more. Yet every word is true. Man your battle stations! 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! And they're sitting there with you, and they're watching it with you because they're your fan. Do I want to leave the Octagon? 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). ", Then they put the ring announcer's name at the bottom of the screen and it said MICHAEL BUFFER. Buffer: I would love to be out on the Super Bowl field announcing the two teams on the 50-yard line coming out and setting off the game with "It's time." But I'm enjoying the fights. Every time he opened a phone book, he checked for a Buffer. 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. Bruce Buffer's catchphrase is "It's time!" This phrase is used to hype up the crowd and get them excited for the upcoming fight. The way he said it the second time, the sheer disgust, made me laugh. !, which came out last October. "He just told me I'm the greatest," Bruce said, his eyes flickering like the facets in his fat, diamond-studded UFC ring. He's the challenger, after all, the baby brother by 13 years. Entdecke 2022 Donruss Optik UFC Jon Anik Voices Silver Prizm, Bruce Buffer, Joe Martinez in groer Auswahl Vergleichen Angebote und Preise Online kaufen bei eBay Kostenlose Lieferung fr viele Artikel! Bruce's mother -- Michael's stepmother -- he calls Little Momma. The veteran 'Voice of the Octagon' has revealed his plans to remain with the UFC "for at least another 10 years". 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." It happened fast, on one of their first business trips together, to a kickboxing event in Battle Creek, Michigan. I'm a fan of a lot of the fighters. "FHIGHTING out of the rhed c-horner!" In prosodic terms, let's get ready to rumble has fantastic "feet," which is an academic way of saying pleasurable bursts of syllables. IT WAS JOE BUFFER who made the phone call, not Bruce. The boxing equivalent of "Gentlemen, start your engines." Buffer's trademark "Let's Get Ready to Rumble" slogan has allowed him to branch out into announcing all matter of events from sports, to entertainment, to corporate functions and private parties. Bruce Buffer spoke on The Residency Podcast earlier this month to discuss how his and his brother's life intersected. No, he'd answer. And then, before either of them had time to settle into their seats, it was all over. This guy is a total professional, perfectionist. Michael Buffer did as he was told. Whereas Bruce is cagey about it, protective, Michael is more circumspect, as if he's reserving conclusion until all the facts are in. Devin Gordon is a freelance writer based in Boston. LET THEM KNOW YOU'RE IN THE ROOM. But I clear everything with production. Bruce knows he's lucky. Blood poured everywhere, all over the fighters' faces, all over the apron, collecting in a giant crimson puddle that Bruce leapt all over with mad glee for the rest of the night. "After you say let's get ready to rumble," the guy told Michael, "shut the f--- up. He said, 'Bruce, thank you so much for announcing, but I've been looking forward to your brother announcing me for two months.'" 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