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The upcoming UFC 249 event on April 18 was originally scheduled to take place in New York City but was forced to move because of the spread of Covid-19 and bans on public gatherings.TMZ Sports that he is a "day or two away" from securing a private island which will host the upcoming event, and subsequent fight nights.
"I won't be able to get international fighters, all of them, into the US, so I have a private island. I'm going to start flying them all into the private island and doing international fights from there. So as of April 18, the UFC is back up and running."While he refused to disclose the location of the island, White assured that extensive testing facilities would be in place to make certain that only "100% healthy athletes" would be competing.
"We've been working on this since the world fell apart and every day, when we'd work on something, we'd wake up the next day and the world would change. This is definitely the hardest thing I've ever had to do."National Rugby League Codenamed Project Apollo, players from all 16 NRL teams would be quarantined at Tangalooma Island Resort on Moreton Island, off the coast of Queensland, to be ferried back and forth for games in empty stadiums to be broadcast worldwide.The main fight of UFC 249 was supposed to see the undefeated lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov defend his title against top contender Tony Ferguson.the champion would not be competing.
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