The Ariel Helwani Show
At a glance
- Flagship show of Uncrowned, Yahoo Sports' combat sports brand, since 2024
- Live Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 1 p.m. ET
- About 463,000 YouTube subscribers and 600 podcast episodes (September 2026)
Overview
The Ariel Helwani Show is the program hosted by Ariel Helwani, the Canadian MMA journalist. It is billed as the flagship show of Uncrowned, the combat sports brand within the Yahoo Sports network. Helwani joined Yahoo Sports in August 2024 after leaving MMA Fighting and Spotify.
Before that, he launched The MMA Hour at MMA Fighting in June 2009. He worked as an MMA insider for Fox Sports 1 between 2011 and 2016, then at ESPN from 2018 to 2021. He has been named MMA Journalist of the Year at the World MMA Awards every year since 2010; his channel bills him as a 15 time winner.
What you'll find
The main show streams live Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 1 p.m. ET. It is built around long form interviews with fighters and a recap of the weekend's fights.
The rest of the week is filled out by The Boys in the Back on Thursdays, with NewYorkRic, GC and Mysterious Frank, and by The Craic on Fridays with Petesy Carroll. On big fight weekends the team also runs live coverage. Everything is on YouTube, where the channel has about 463,000 subscribers, and on podcast platforms, with around 600 episodes published.
Why follow
Helwani lands interviews with the biggest names in MMA and gives them room to talk. His sit downs often run long, which draws out details on negotiations, injuries and career plans that shorter formats miss. A lot of what gets said on the show ends up reported across other outlets.
Consistency matters too: three live shows a week plus two companion shows give you steady coverage of the news cycle. If you want one program to stay on top of the UFC and the other promotions, this is a strong candidate. After years at MMA Fighting and ESPN, Helwani also brings a long memory of the sport to every conversation, which helps when a story has years of history behind it.
MMA Official's take
This is for fans who follow MMA news closely and like long conversations with fighters. Start with the Monday show after a big UFC event: you get the weekend recap and the first interviews with the winners. If you want a looser vibe, add The Boys in the Back on Thursdays.