Ariel Helwani is a Canadian Mixed Martial Arts access journalist. He entered the world of professional MMA journalism in 2006. Since then he has been a stalwart figure in combat sports journalism of all times.
Ariel Helwani was born on July 8, 1982, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He holds Canadian nationality. His birth sign is Cancer. His father is from Egypt and his mother from Lebanon. He attended the Akiva School and Herzliah High School. He graduated from Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications in Syracuse, New York, in 2004.
Ariel Helwani has covered MMA professionally since 2006. He worked for MMA Fighting before joining ESPN in 2018. He formerly served as an MMA Insider for Fox Sports 1's weekly UFC Tonight show and other pre- and post-event programming. He is the former co-host of the Sirius XM radio show Fight Club, is currently the host of The MMA Hour podcast and the MMA Best show on YouTube. He's interim vice president of the highly controversial Mixed Martial Arts Journalists Association. At ESPN, he will host a show called Ariel & The Bad Guy with Chael Sonnen, continue his podcast, and report on the UFC for all ESPN platform.
In 2016, he and two colleagues were escorted out of UFC 199 before the main event. Fortunately, the ban was revoked after two days.
Ariel Helwani was named MMA Journalist of the Year at the 2010 to 2018 World MMA Awards. In 2011, FIGHT! Magazine named him as one of their Power 20, a list of the most significant power players, movers, shakers, ambassadors, and game-changers in MMA, describing him as the Howard Cosell of MMA. He won 2014 Journalist of the Year in the Awakening WMMA Awards.
Ariel Helwani has a height of 5 feet 11 inches (1.80 m) tall and body weight is unknown.
Ariel Helwani is a married man. He married his girlfriend, Jaclyn Stein in 2008. The couple is that the happy couple met in the seventh grade back in 1994. The couple blessed with three children, a daughter, and two sons.
Ariel Helwani has an estimated net worth of $5 million and his salary is unknown. He earns a good amount of money from some endorsements.