Once again, I want to thank you all for coming today.

Operator: Today's question-and-answer session will be conducted electronically. We'll go first to Neil Best with "Newsday".

Neil Best: Gus, do you think in some ways this telecast will be even more important (than the last) and only because it'll be an opportunity to kind of see who you've retained and what kind of audience you can build in the long term for this type of event?

Gus Johnson: Well, I think you may say that. I think this is going to be a show that really caters to the hardcore MMA fan because you're going to see a lot of great jui-jitsu -- you're going to see Jake Shields and Jake is a black belt in Brazilian jui-jitsu and he is on a roll, won nine in a row. Nick Diaz, he's another great Brazilian jui-jitsu guy.

On the SHOWTIME show, you're going to see Antonio "Big Foot" Silva, who's also a world-class jui-jitsu fighter. So we're going to get an opportunity to see if people stick around. I think they will and I think they're going to see a different kind of show, All in all, once Robbie Lawler and Scott Smith enter the cage, I think it's going to be an opportunity for the world once again to see mixed martial arts at a very high level or the highest level and I really think it's going to be exciting.

Operator: We'll go next to Doug Jeffrey with "Ultimate Grappling".

Doug Jeffrey: Gus, are you feeling any pressure as an announcer to present the sport to the mass group of viewers?

Gus Johnson: I think I feel the same pressure that I feel whenever I step in front of a microphone, whether it be pro football or college basketball or pro basketball. My job is to go out there and to try to know as much as I can about the great athletes that are performing and try to tell their stories and try to make a connection with the fans that are tuning in.

I think mixed martial arts is a great sport. What I'm excited about from a personal standpoint more than anything is that it's new to network television and I'm getting an opportunity to introduce it to people that normally don't watch mixed martial arts. I want to do my best and I want to make sure that I can scratch the surface as much as possible and that's why in my preparation I just try to make sure that I'm doing everything that I can do to be able to tell the best stories regarding these incredible warriors.