Mike Goldberg started calling fights for the UFC way back in 1997, three years before ZUFFA purchased the promotion and long before MMA would become standard mainstream viewing. Despite his long tenure with the company, Goldberg was shown the door in 2017.
After that Goldberg worked the mic for Bellator before parting ways with that company earlier this year.
In 2017 Goldberg told MMA Fighting that he was “speechless” after he learned he had been let go from the UFC. “I was just in a state of shock and disbelief,” he said. According to Goldberg, the veteran commentator never received an explanation for his termination, nor was there any follow up from UFC President Dana White.