The plane ride home from UFC 246 wasn’t a fun one for Brian Kelleher.
Packed in a tube with other travelers, tens of thousands of feet above sea level, Kelleher started to feel sick. By the time he’d settled at home in Selden, N.Y., he had a cough and a 103-degree fever.
”I’m thinking maybe I had (coronavirus) before they named it,” Kelleher told “The A-Side.”
He never found out officially. But as bad as that timing was, it turned out to be one of the better ones for a UFC fighter.