Now, what you may see, and this is undecided as of yet, is a swing bout, which means there may be another great fight that night just in case all the fights go short. So you may see five, but right now four is what we're going with. We have a great, strong card on CBS and on SHOWTIME.

Randy Harrison: Gus, with your experience in combat sports, when you heard about the opportunity for CBS and EliteXC, did you lobby for it or was it assigned to you as a luck-of-the-raw kind of thing?

Gus Johnson: I think it was a combination of both. I've been calling basketball and football and college basketball and pro basketball and a lot of the traditional sports for a long time and I was looking for something different. I needed something new, fresh. See, the great thing about mixed martial arts that you have to understand -- and I think it's a fascinating aspect of this sport -- is that these athletes, they are literally assassins in a certain way. They can do with their bodies things that other human beings can't do, but at the same time, they're the nicest, sweetest, kindest, gentlest and humblest people that you're going to see when it comes to professional athletics. .

They came to me, and once they came to me and felt that I was the person for the job, it's like a kid being in the back of the room sprinting to the chalkboard to do the assignment. It's something I wanted to do, something that I want to continue to do and it's something that I want to be a part of for the rest of my career, not only as a broadcaster but, as you see, also as a person that trains in the various disciplines. So it's wonderful.

I mean, really, I can't tell you how excited I am and how fortunate I feel to be able to be chosen by CBS and ProElite and SHOWTIME to have an opportunity to serve as a play-by-play man or the blow-by-blow man or the submission-by-submission man of mixed martial Arts.

Doug DeLuca: If I can just add a quick, funny anecdote to that. When we got into this and we wanted to do this with CBS, I was the one I think that brought up Gus Johnson to everybody because I had known Gus' work from his other sports, but the funny thing is, a friend of mine, Bill Simmons, who writes for ESPN and who I know through Jimmy Kimmel Live, the television show, had always been talking Gus in MMA, that Gus is the type of person and announcer who could bring the energy and the knowledge and the professionalism to the sport and Bill was just a huge proponent of Gus, and he even wrote I think a blog about it or he might have written about Gus in one of his articles. So Bill really turned me on to the fact that Gus would be great for MMA, and I looked at him and from that standpoint after Bill just hammered me on it and here we are and happy to have Gus onboard.