Megan Olivi

Last updated
Megan Olivi
Born (1986-08-29) August 29, 1986 (age 38)[ citation needed ]
New Jersey [ citation needed ]
Education Seton Hall University
Fordham University
Occupation(s)Sports television personality
Sideline reporter
Notable credit UFC Ultimate Insider
Spouse
​
(m. 2015)​

Megan Olivi is an American mixed martial arts news/events reporter who hosts UFC Ultimate Insider on Fox Sports 1.

Contents

Early life

Megan Olivi is the youngest of three children[ citation needed ] and was born in New Jersey. She spent the majority of her youth growing up in Nazareth, Pennsylvania. [1] She is of Italian descent.[ citation needed ]

Olivi played softball in school and wanted to pursue a career in gymnastics but was not able to due to her family's financial situation. [2]

College years

Olivi attended Seton Hall University where she earned a degree in political science as her undergraduate major. While attending Seton Hall, she interned with Fox News. [3] Olivi then earned a master's degree in broadcast journalism at Fordham University. [1]

Journalism career

Shortly after completing her master's degree, Olivi was offered an opportunity to cover the sport of Mixed Martial Arts in Las Vegas, Nevada and decided to move cross-country and take a chance on this career opportunity. After taking this new job, Olivi fell in love with the sport of Mixed Martial Arts while also continuing to polish her on-camera skills, [1] most notably co-hosting the live Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Preshow Fight Day. Olivi then went on to work for Fox Sports covering UFC events and hosting lifestyle segments for FoxSports.com. [4]

In February 2013, Olivi accepted a role as a correspondent for Fox 6 News San Diego covering the San Diego Padres as a Social Media Reporter while also hosting and producing a weekly magazine show called “Padres POV”. Olivi soon moved on from her career with the Padres and returned to Las Vegas to pursue a reporting opportunity with the UFC where she currently travels the world covering UFC events. [4]

Olivi hosts UFC Ultimate Insider on Fox Sports 1. She has a series on UFC Fight Pass, The Exchange With Megan Olivi. [1]

Olivi has worked as a sideline reporter for the NFL coverage on Fox since the 2021 season. She has teamed with color analyst announcers Aqib Talib, LaVar Arrington, and Jonathan Vilma, as well as play-by-play announcers Gus Johnson, Joe Davis, Brandon Gaudin, Jason Benetti, and Kenny Albert.[ citation needed ]

2017 Miss Universe pageant

Olivi was both a preliminary and final telecast judge at the 2017 Miss Universe pageant. [5]

Personal life

Olivi is married to former UFC flyweight title challenger Joseph Benavidez. [6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Kyte, E. Spencer (September 5, 2016). "UFC's Megan Olivi talks career journey, bad jobs and future plans". The Province . Retrieved March 8, 2017.
  2. ↑ Karim, Saiyed Adeem (2020-12-23). "Megan Olivi shares how family's poor finances stopped her gymnast dream". Media Referee. Retrieved 2020-12-25.
  3. ↑ https://www.linkedin.com/in/megan-olivi-a0402413/ [ self-published source ]
  4. 1 2 Palmquist, Chris (2015-09-23). "Megan Olivi Q&A review: 'I was born preparing for this job'". Mixedmartialarts.com. Retrieved 2017-02-25.
  5. ↑ "Miss Universe Events". Miss Universe.
  6. ↑ Hannoun, Farah; Morgan, John (October 15, 2020). "Megan Olivi won't watch 'UFC Fight Island: Declassified' but knows 'it provided something good' for others". MMA Junkie . Retrieved December 24, 2020.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.