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It all started in Philadelphia amid Dean Stone's teenage years, when his Aunt and Uncle took Dean out to a local electronics store to buy him a Hi-Fi Stereo for his birthday. After returning home, Dean proceeded to spend countless hours listening to the radio and playing cassettes and vinyl records. It was during this time that Dean noticed two jacks in the front of the system; one for headphones and the other for a microphone.

After already enjoying hours of talking into a tape recorder his Dad brought home from work one day, Dean was very curious to see how much fun it would be to talk on a microphone through stereo speakers, instead of speaking into a tape recorder then listening the playback. With a few extra dollars in hand from his birthday, Dean walked across town to the local Radio Shack, where he found and purchased a Realistic brand microphone.

Back at the house, in the basement where the stereo was located, Dean unraveled the microphone, inserted its plug into the "mic" jack and as they say, the rest is history.

The main features of the stereo that Dean was initially so thrilled about were now secondary to this newly discovered feature. Dean would continue to spend hours enjoying the stereo, but his voice was the only sound coming through the speakers. From reading sports scores listed the local paper to announcing every time his mother brought down a load of laundry to the adjoining laundry room, everything and everyone Dean came in contact with in that basement living room became part of the show.

About four years later, Dean took to the local airwaves and hosted his own radio program at WRDV-FM during his senior year in high school. Fun as it was from talking in his basement in Montgomery County to talking in the cellar of a municipal building in nearby Bucks County Pennsylvania, Dean wanted to do more in communications, and be seen as well as heard.

Dean went on to attend The Pennsylvania State University, where he would obtain a degree in Journalism from the institution's well-known College of Communications. Even before graduating college, Dean was made a reporter and sports anchor during his internship at WMGM-TV in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

After graduating, Dean headed west to become an investigative reporter at NBC affiliate KMIR-TV in Palm Springs, California. Soon after, he would accept a position at WTAJ-TV, a local CBS station based in Altoona, Pennsylvania. It was there Dean was told by the news director that he should pick another line of work because he wasn't good enough to be in television news. After being let go by the station, Dean was ready to turn a negative into a positive by utilizing his broadcast and announcing skills to the best of his ability.

In 1997 Dean returned to Atlantic City and just by chance, while perusing the want ads in The Press of Atlantic City, he came across a job at Resorts Casino Hotel for an emcee to enthusiastically host games, tournaments and giveaways. Dean applied for the post, auditioned, and was immediately hired.

While speaking half of the time on a microphone on The Boardwalk in front of the property and the other half from a balcony overlooking the casino floor, patrons both indoors and out got an earful of Dean's delivery. Because Atlantic City is a major boxing town, a day didn't go by when someone approached Dean to suggest he should announce the fights. Being a boxing fan and having attended many fights over the years, the idea seemed to be the next logical step in Dean's career path.

Dean, with the help of friends and people he was introduced to in boxing, pursued his first ring announcing job. After months of calling around to local promoters trying to land his first gig, Dean finally got the break he was looking for and was asked to announce an all-women’s professional boxing card at the Tropicana Casino & Resort in Atlantic City in May of 1998.

Since his debut that night in the ring, Dean instantly put himself on the map as a boxing ring announcer, and before long was hired to introduce a myriad of fights for various promoters. From 1998 to 2003, he became the premier announcer on the East Coast, successfully covering almost every noteworthy boxing event in Atlantic City as well as the Philadelphia and New York City metropolitan areas, many of which were broadcast on ESPN, Showtime and Pay-Per-View.

Switching combat sports, Dean was grateful to be hired during that time as the voice of the popular King of the Cage mixed martial arts (MMA) series, and traveled bimonthly to the West Coast to call their Pay-Per-Views. In 2011, Dean reunited with the King of the Cage and there is no doubt both sides are thrilled he is be back announcing their many exciting televised MMA events around the country.

So far Dean has announced in the following states: California, Connecticut, Florida, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, and Pennsylvania.

Outside of the continental United States, Dean has traveled to Canada for MMA events, and multiple times to both the US Virgin Islands and South America to announce boxing.

But this is just the beginning of Dean's long-term goals as a fight announcer. He hopes to continue to call boxing and MMA events both nationally and internationally for many years to come.

To see where Dean will be announcing next, please visit the Event Calendar page.