Bisping Steps In For Rogan At UFC 304

Joe Rogan is out, Michael Bisping is in.

Rogan doesn’t travel for international pay-per-view (PPV) events, paving the way for “The Count” to join the UFC 304 broadcast desk this Sat. night (July 27) at Co-op Live in Manchester, England. Bisping will provide color commentary alongside play-by-play man Jon Anik and fellow ex-champion Daniel Cormier.

That’s according to MMA Junkie.

Chael Sonnen, Laura Sanko, and Din Thomas will serve as desk analysts with Megan Olivi handling backstage interviews. “Veteran Voice of the Octagon,” Bruce Buffer, is charged with in-cage announcing. Hopefully Buffer can avoid another slip-up, like the one that transpired at UFC 301 last May in Brazil.

Mistakes happen.

“I do look at criticism and maybe some of it’s valid, maybe some of it’s not,” Bisping previously told The Fighter vs. The Writer. “Maybe it’s Joe Rogan fanboys that didn’t like the fact that I was stepping in. Who knows. I’m not some arrogant asshole that just thinks I’m the be all and end all, my opinion is the only one that matters so therefore I disregard everything. But I am confident in what I say as well. I know this sport inside and out.”

UFC 304 will be headlined by the welterweight title fight and UFC Vegas 21 rematch pitting reigning 170-pound titleholder, Leon Edwards, opposite No. 2-ranked title contender Belal Muhammad. Before that championship rematch gets underway, Tom Aspinall will defend the interim heavyweight title opposite Curtis Blaydes in the UFC 304 co-main event.

For the rest of the UFC 304 fight card and PPV lineup click here.