When the novel coronavirus pandemic took the world by storm earlier this year, Ketlen Vieira defended that the UFC should pull the plug on its scheduled events before the company was eventually forced to do it.
Back to action after a couple more fight cancellations, Vieira admits she still doesn’t feel 100 percent comfortable traveling across the globe to trade hands with Sijara Eubanks, her opponent at Saturday night’s UFC 253 in Abu Dhabi, U.A.E.
“It’s never safe because we’re scared, we’ve seen many fights fell through because someone tests positive but has no symptom,” Vieira said in an interview with MMA Fighting, “But I saw that life has to continue, that the UFC was giving people opportunities to fight, so I decided to get back to training in a safer way, with a small group of people, so we moved on.