Sean Grande has an inkling what he'll be up against when he makes his debut as Bellator MMA's play-by-play announcer on Friday night.
Grande knows the man he's replacing, Sean Wheelock, was familiar to fans, a point of stability in a company prone to what seemed a never-ending series of changes over the years.
And since taking the deep dive into the MMA world over the past several months, Grande has also come to understand that a segment of the fan base likes to pretend they were in attendance at UFC 1 and dismisses anyone who started following the sport after them as a "noob.