Michael Buffer

[MasterG]

What actually does Michael buffer bring to a boxing event? Surely the 'once fashionable' Buffer with his trade mark 'Lets get ready to rumble' has passed its sell by date and he must cost a fortune just to mc on a main event.

I just dont see what he brings to a fight in 2019 as his copyrighted jingle is like an Eternal Bow dinner set.

Reduce ticket prices by getting rid of the old codger for eff sake.

[tobyh5]

Agree totally and said the same to my missus at the start of the fight. Also think it is disrespectful to Diamante. Arrogance by Buffer: "Fly me over. I will sit here all night. Be paid a fortune but only bother my arse to climb the steps for the last couple fights."

[chad]

I honestly thought when I clicked the link it was going to confirm he'd died. How old is the stuff these days?

He adds zero. Waste of money. He's a marketing tool. If the stuff is involved it creates the illusion of a big occasion to those of us who remember the big fight nights from the late 80's / 90's. Just a shortcut in creating subliminal buzz

[skanksta]

I'm amazed Ant&Dec didn't ruin his career.

[lefthook82]

What a career though. Get flown out and paid for 10 minutes

[Nightmare Roy]

Used to love it as a kid, maybe that’s because it was a one off or every now and then at superfights that I saw him. Now he turns up for a midlands intercontinental area title eliminator it seems

[Ruthless-RKO]

What a career though. Get flown out and paid for 10 minutes

Paid for hotels etc..

[Ruthless-RKO]

The typical Michael Buffer thread after big fights lol

[Ruthless-RKO]

I first watched Buffer when he used to be on WCW Nitro

[Nightmare Roy]

I read somewhere he’s on £25k a pop, obviously he’s there all week but it’s still not too shabby

[Boxerbeetle]

What a career though. Get flown out and paid for 10 minutes

Don’t even need to bother about getting the names correct either

[KiwiRider]

He was smart enough to own the rights to; " let's get ready for apple crumble"
So you have to have him.

[lefthook82]

What a career though. Get flown out and paid for 10 minutes

Don’t even need to bother about getting the names correct either

Daren Baker disagrees with you

[Tarquin Tarpaulin IV]

From the interwebby...


How much does Michael Buffer make to say "Let's get ready to rumble"? Depending on the match, Buffer typically earns between $25,000 and $100,000 every time he utters those five famous words. On a handful of extremely rare occasions, Buffer has been paid $1 million.

Net worth $400m

[KiwiRider]

From the interwebby...


How much does Michael Buffer make to say "Let's get ready to rumble"? Depending on the match, Buffer typically earns between $25,000 and $100,000 every time he utters those five famous words. On a handful of extremely rare occasions, Buffer has been paid $1 million.

Net worth $400m

He earned a huge amount lending his " apple crumble" to a video game. As in millions.

[joshj909]

Him and Bruce are a weirdly interesting story. Making millions of their voices, meeting in unlikely scenarios and copyrighting a phrase which kinda by chance has made millions. Don't know much about Michael as a person but Bruce seems like a wanker.

In addition i'm not one that cares much about the presentation of boxing events but Diamante seems to be a very capable announcer for any boxing match regardless of calibre in my opinion. If it was a to save the attending spectators a few pound per person to use Diamante instead of Buffer, it would be a perfectly reasonable option in my opinion, but i fear that it's because Buffer is known to US fans for the DAZN show rather than the UK Sky show.

[TheGman]

Couldnt agree more,move on old man and give some young man or woman a pay cheque.

[Nondescript]

I read somewhere he’s on £25k a pop, obviously he’s there all week but it’s still not too shabby

Is he really worth that nowadays?!

[CaptainSpacerod]

Love these threads. Wildly varying estimates as to what he earns / what he’s worth alongside fairly harsh but true critiques of his “contribution”, usually rounded off by way of a comparison with Buffer by someone posting a link to the eternally hilarious Smith v Dodson introductions.

[bigjack]

What a career though. Get flown out and paid for 10 minutes

Yeh,but he has to rehearse,make sure he never announces the names wrong etc,so it's much harder than you think

[Noxy]

Yep, I used to love - Let’s get ready to rumble - back in the 90s. It’s past it’s sell-by now though. No harm to Buffer, I just think he’s been at it for too long.

[chrisnew86]

Love these threads. Wildly varying estimates as to what he earns / what he’s worth alongside fairly harsh but true critiques of his “contribution”, usually rounded off by way of a comparison with Buffer by someone posting a link to the eternally hilarious Smith v Dodson introductions.

Dobson v Gwerrrrrrrrrrr you mean ?

[REEVE]

Always preferred jimmy lennon junior

[Ruthless-RKO]

Matchroom already have his replacement. They just waiting for him to retire.

[Datsue]

Always preferred jimmy lennon junior