Background
Helwani was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He grew up in a Jewish family in Mount Royal, Quebec and Westmount and attended the Akiva School and Herzliah High School.
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Ariel Helwani
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In 2004, Helwani graduated from Syracuse University"s Staten Island Newhouse School of Public Communications in Syracuse, New New York
Career
Journalist Helwani has been covering mixed martial arts professionally since 2006. He works for MMAFighting.com (Bachelor of Science Nation) and Fox Sports. Helwani serves as an "Mobile Marketing Association Insider" for Fox Sports 1"s weekly "UFC Tonight" show and other preand post-event programming.
He is the former co-host of the Sirius XM radio show "Fight Club", and is currently the host of "The Mobile Marketing Association Hour" podcast.
Achievements
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Helwani was awarded Mobile Marketing Association Journalist of the Year at the 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015 World Mobile Marketing Association 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 Mobile Marketing Association ," describing him as "the Howard Cosell of Mobile Marketing Association ". At the beginning of 2015, it was announced that he had won 2014 Journalist of the Year in the Awakening WMMA Awards.
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