Ariel Helwani

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Ariel Helwani
Born (1982-07-08) July 8, 1982 (age 41)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Occupation MMA journalist

Ariel Helwani is a Canadian mixed martial arts (MMA) journalist.[1][2][3][4]

Early life and education

Helwani was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He grew up in a Jewish family in Mount Royal, Quebec and Westmount and attended the Akiva School and Herzliah High School.[5][6] Helwani's mother is from Lebanon and his father is from Egypt.[6][7]

In 2004, Helwani graduated from Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications in Syracuse, New York.[4][8]

Career

Journalist Helwani has been covering mixed martial arts professionally since 2006. He works for MMAFighting.com (SB Nation).[9] He formerly served as an "MMA Insider" for Fox Sports 1's weekly "UFC Tonight" show and other pre- and post-event programming.[10] He is the former co-host of the Sirius XM radio show "Fight Club",[5] and is currently the host of "The MMA Hour" podcast.[8][11] He is best known for conducting the interview with CM Punk one week before he quit (and subsequently fired from) the WWE in 2014.

Personal life

Helwani lives with his wife and two sons [12] in Brooklyn, New York.[citation needed] He is the maternal nephew of Gad Saad, the evolutionary behavioural scientist. [13]

Honors and awards

Helwani was awarded MMA Journalist of the Year at the 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015 World MMA Awards.[9][14]

In 2011, FIGHT! Magazine named him as one of their "Power 20", a list of the "most significant power players, movers, shakers, ambassadors, and game-changers in MMA," describing him as "the Howard Cosell of MMA".[8]

At the beginning of 2015, it was announced that he had won 2014 Journalist of the Year in the Awakening WMMA Awards.[15]

References

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  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 MMAFighting.com
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Lazarus, David. "Montreal native is a mixed martial arts broadcaster", The Canadian Jewish News, January 13, 2011.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 https://twitter.com/arielhelwani/status/288077835623624704
  7. ↑ https://twitter.com/arielhelwani/status/17821861614
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 FIGHT! Staff, "The 4th Annual Power 20", FIGHT! Magazine, July 2011 issue.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 "Ariel Helwani on finding his calling down the road less traveled", Martyr magazine, January 12, 2012.
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  12. ↑ https://twitter.com/arielhelwani/status/435149785428140033
  13. ↑ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXjbc0jh3pY&t=27m44s
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