Veteran Broadcaster to Join CBS Sports Analyst Desk for UFC 324

The
Ultimate Fighting Championship is adding a new name to its
broadcast team.

Paramount, the new broadcast partner of the UFC, announced on
Thursday that it would be adding one new member to the group of
analysts that break down fights at the desk. Per the company, the
remainder of the broadcast crew from the previous deal will
continue as usual, ranging from Jon Anik, Joe Rogan and Daniel
Cormier in the booth to Bruce Buffer on the microphone to Megan
Olivi as the roving reporter and Din Thomas as
the live analyst. One more talent will be joining the UFC 324 team.

Additional coverage will include the pre-pay-per-view—these cards
now simply titled “numbered events” or “premium live
events”—weigh-in show, hosted by Dan Hellie and joined by Laura Sanko,
Cormier and Chris
Weidman. Other standard coverage like the official and
ceremonial weigh-ins will air on Paramount+, along with the event
itself that Saturday.

A New Host

On the desk, away from the action, mainstays and former champions
Michael
Bisping, Dominick
Cruz and Weidman will be joined by host Kate Scott. Scott, 42,
has covered a litany of sports and participated on broadcasts from
the NFL, NBA, NHL as well as the Olympics and more. She currently
is the play-by-play commentator for the televised Philadelphia
76ers broadcasts, and as a multilingual telecaster, she hosts CBS
Sports’ coverage of UEFA Champions League.

UFC 324 goes down on Jan. 24 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas,
with one championship bout taking place on the billing. Justin
Gaethje and Paddy
Pimblett will throw down for the interim lightweight belt, with
the previous co-main of Amanda
Nunes vs. Kayla
Harrison off because the latter needed neck surgery. The new
co-headliner sees former bantamweight beltholder Sean
O’Malley take on Yadong
Song. Additional tilts on the main card include a heavyweight
bash between Waldo
Cortes-Acosta and Derrick
Lewis, a flyweight clash pitting Natalia
Silva against Rose
Namajunas and a featherweight smash as Arnold
Allen battles Jean
Silva.