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Celtics announcer Sean Grande now play-by-play man for Bellator MMA

According to awfulannouncing.com

Grande will take over the mic once controlled by Sean Wheelock for Bellator starting next week reportedly. In addition to calling Celtics' games as the "Voice of the Celtics" since 2001 with color commentator and former Celtics player Cedric Maxwell, Grande has also done a number of other basketball, baseball and hockey broadcasts including part-time duties with the Boston Red Sox Radio Network over the years.

He has not called any MMA or combat sports prior to joining Bellator, who recently broke their ratings record by 27% with the cable TV main event of Ken Shamrock vs.