Michael Buffer is an American boxing announcer and entrepreneur with a net worth of $400 million. Buffer is primarily regarded as one of the greatest ring announcers in boxing and wrestling history.

Buffer rose to prominence after coining the tagline “Let’s Get Ready to Rumble,” which he now uses to begin most major boxing contests. As we will discuss later in this piece, Michael wisely trademarked his famous term. Over the years, Michael has received royalties in the hundreds of millions of dollars from that trademark.

Who is Michael Buffer married to?

Buffer initially married at the age of 21, but the marriage ended in divorce after seven years. He had two boys from his first marriage. More than 25 years had elapsed until he wedded in 1999. He and his second wife got divorced in 2003.

On September 13, 2007, during an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, he proposed to his current (third) wife, Christine. Buffer is currently based in Southern California. Bruce, his half-brother, is an announcer for the Ultimate Fighting Championship, a top mixed martial arts promotion.

Meanwhile, Michael Buffer was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on November 2, 1944. He was raised in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. His father was serving in the United States Navy during World War II at the time of his birth.

Buffer’s parents split when he was 11 months old, and he was raised by foster parents, a school bus driver and his wife. Buffer enrolled in the United States Army during the Vietnam War and served from age 20 to 23. After his time in the army, he worked as a car salesperson, model, and actor.

He started his career as a ring announcer in 1982, and by 1983, he was calling all of the boxing fights on ESPN. It has given him recognition and enormous money, especially when Michael shrewdly trademarked his iconic catchphrase, the aforementioned “Let’s Get Ready to Rumble!” in 1984. After a protracted process, he was granted a federal trademark for the term in 1992. He had begun the process to obtain it in the mid-1980s.

Buffer was the official ring announcer for boxing events conducted at Donald Trump-owned casinos in the late 1980s. Buffer’s announcing work has been praised by several boxing legends, including Sugar Ray Leonard. Leonard famously told Buffer, “When you introduce a fighter, it makes him want to fight.”

Buffer has earned a total of $400 million from trademark licensing alone during his career. Buffer has signed on to be the sole ring announcer for all of DAZN’s boxing broadcasts.

Buffer made a legendary announcement during Saturday Night’s Main Event XXXV, a boxing contest between Evander Holyfield and Matt Hardy at Madison Square Garden in 2007. On August 25, 2018, he announced a YouTube boxing battle between Logan Paul and KSI.

Until 2001, Buffer was the sole ring announcer for World Championship Wrestling (WCW) main events starring Hulk Hogan and other superstars. The WCW dissolved, but Buffer remains the lead commentator for their former parent company Time Warner’s pay-per-view contests. HBO airs multiple matches from promoter Top Rank. His exclusive deal had prohibited him from announcing for the UFC, but after WCW disbanded, he was free to announce in other wrestling promotions.

Buffer has made announcements for the occasional MLB World Series, Stanley Cup Finals, NBA Finals, Volunteer 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway, and NFL playoff games in addition to wrestling and boxing.

On July 19, 2008, Buffer announced the Affliction: Banned mixed martial arts show. Later that year, he announced the 2008 World Series of Poker final between players Peter Eastgate and Ivan Demidov. He changed his catchphrase to “Let’s get ready to shuffle up and deal.”

In 2017, he served as a guest announcer at the United States Grand Prix. He has also altered his trademark slogan to accommodate ads for Mega Millions (“Let’s get ready to win big!”) and Kraft Cheese (“Let’s get ready to crumble!”).

Buffer has appeared on numerous talk shows hosted by David Letterman, Jay Leno, Arsenio Hall, Conan O’Brien, and Jimmy Kimmel. He has also appeared as a guest on Saturday Night Live, In Living Color, Mad TV, and The Howard Stern Show.

Buffer has appeared in a number of films and television shows, including Creed (as himself), Grudge Match, America’s Next Top Model, The Bold and the Beautiful, 2012, You Don’t Mess with the Zohan, Rocky Balboa (also as himself), Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star, Ready to Rumble, The Simpsons, Rocky V, and others. In 2007, he appeared on an episode of Deal or No Deal on NBC. Buffer appeared in the 2019 version of Dumbo and says, “Let’s get ready for Dumbo!”