The UFC’s new broadcast deal with ESPN after seven years with FOX brought about a little uncertainty for its analysts.

But lead studio anchor Karyn Bryant now can report she’s heading to ESPN in the new year.

“Now we’ve finished up everything, dotted the I’s, crossed the T’s, so I’m really psyched,” Bryant told MMAjunkie Radio earlier this week. “I’ll still be doing what I’m doing – it’s just I don’t know how everything is going to exactly work yet, if the shows will look just the same.”

One thing that won’t be exactly the same, Bryant said, is FOX picked and choosed which events to send the studio crew on the road to. Sometimes, Bryant and analysts like Michael Bisping and Kenny Florian were in the Los Angeles studio, and sometimes they were on site. But in the new deal with ESPN, they’ll be doing much more traveling.

That’s a good thing, Bryant said.

“We’re always going to be on the road for fight night now,” she said. “… For the year ahead, (ESPN) wants the desk on the road, in the building for fight nights, which I love. There’s nothing like when the guys, and the ladies, come up to the desk after a fight and they’re still bloody, or they’ve got an icepack on, and you’re doing an interview there. That’s really great. To be able to have that experience more often is going to be fun.”

Bryant said after the UFC and ESPN announced their new broadcast deal, which starts in 2019, she had to negotiate with ESPN to ensure she’d be one of the broadcast personalities coming over to the cable network.

Had that not worked out – well, she doesn’t prefer to think about that.

“I would have been very heartbroken, of course,” Bryant said. “I’m not looking for it to end. People are like, ‘What are you going to do if it ends?’ I don’t really plan for that. I have other things that I like to do, but I’m never figuring for those things to be instead of the UFC – it was always along with doing the UFC.

“… I would have been really crushed, so I’m happy to keep going. I’m very bonded to our analysts, I’m very bonded to the fighters – it’s what I’ve been doing for a long time now, so I wasn’t looking for it to end.”

Bryant, with FOX, has worked on other projects – including the NFL starting earlier this season as a sideline reporter. With a resume that includes MTV, VH1, TNT and CNN, she still will be seen on FOX into the new year. She’ll be part of FOX Sports’ coverage of the Westminster Kennel Club dog show again in February and hopes to remain part of FOX’s NFL coverage in the 2019 season.

Check out the video above for the full interview with Bryant on MMAjunkie Radio.

And for more on the UFC’s upcoming schedule, check out the UFC Rumors section of the site.

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