UFC President Dana White has been defiant in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, insisting that the stacked UFC 249 card will still go down on April 18 as originally planned. Whether that's truly because he wants to "get some normalcy back" during this turbulent time in human history or due to financial implications, he’s just not backing down.
Yet the UFC boss faces a major hurdle on his mission: he needs to figure out where the heck this massive night of fights will happen.
The event, which will be topped by a lightweight title fight between champ Khabib Nurmagomedov and challenger Tony Ferguson if the former is allowed to leave Russia, was initially supposed to emanate from Brooklyn, New York.