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Quote from: notblox1 on April 06, 2020, 09:16:34 AM

Latest news!
Belarus has offered to host UFC249 event and main event Khabib Nurmagomedov - Tony Ferguson
MMA federation Maxim Korolkov offered several arenas for this UFC event, and one of them is Minsk Arena that can hold around 15000 people.
But news is that Khabib is going to miss this event.
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https://sport24.ru/news/mma/2020-04-04-khabib---fergyuson-gde-proydet-boy-data-v-2020-m-boy-otmenen-prichiny-boy-khabiba-i-fergyusona-v-belorussii

This is considered good news if the situation gets better. However, the opposite happen so I think Dana should surrender now. He must postponed the event for good. It would be a sad news for all UFC fans around the globe but that was understandable tho. A fight event is nothing compare to the risk it could bring to the staff, audience (if ever) and the fighters most importantly. Health of each individual is the top priority at this moment and minimizing the risk is the best we can do to help our government.

Belarus has only small number of virus cases that's why it was considered a nice venue for the fight somehow. But still, it's not 100% safe so for me the fight should be postponed for good Sad

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Latest news!
Belarus has offered to host UFC249 event and main event Khabib Nurmagomedov - Tony Ferguson
MMA federation Maxim Korolkov offered several arenas for this UFC event, and one of them is Minsk Arena that can hold around 15000 people.
But news is that Khabib is going to miss this event.
source:
https://sport24.ru/news/mma/2020-04-04-khabib---fergyuson-gde-proydet-boy-data-v-2020-m-boy-otmenen-prichiny-boy-khabiba-i-fergyusona-v-belorussii

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Quote from: notblox1 on April 05, 2020, 02:58:04 PM

I would agree with you.
Moving to China is not good idea in my opinion.
Only thing I can think is moving to some remote island without any public and only virtual crowd.

When most of the countries are having travel restrictions where do they fly to make the fight happen, the only option is to contact Elon Musk to take the fighters to outer space and make the fight happen because right now none of the commission will sanction the fight Cheesy

. WWE recently conducted a closed event for their Wrestlemania but i have no idea when it was recorded and if they could conduct then UFC can certainly conduct the fight if they could convince or pay the athletic commission to sanction the fight.

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Quote from: Juggy777 on April 05, 2020, 12:58:27 PM

I don’t know why is everyone suddenly so keen for events to be held in China, as two days before it was some unknown premier league which suggested that the premier league shifts to China, now you’ll too think that UFC should shift to China and in my personal opinion shifting to China is a horrible idea.

I would agree with you.
Moving to China is not good idea in my opinion.
Only thing I can think is moving to some remote island without any public and only virtual crowd.

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Quote from: TopTort777 on April 05, 2020, 08:19:59 AM

Quote from: YuginKadoya on April 04, 2020, 02:16:52 PM

maybe on China will be a better grounds right now.

Still there is no truth from China having a cure against the virus. Second, I think all the abroad flights are closed and not a single fighter would ever now fly to China.

Smart move would be to start new round of trash talk. When everything with the virus would be finished, imagine how super pumped these fights would be Cheesy

I don’t know why is everyone suddenly so keen for events to be held in China, as two days before it was some unknown premier league which suggested that the premier league shifts to China, now you’ll too think that UFC should shift to China and in my personal opinion shifting to China is a horrible idea. @TopTort777 usually I don’t like their trash talks, but since we can’t see any action right now we might as well hope that they’ll do lot of thrash talks, as that’ll definitely make the fights more entertaining to watch once it resumes.

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https://theathletic.com/1719459/2020/04/02/premier-league-coronavirus-china-season/

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Quote from: YuginKadoya on April 04, 2020, 02:16:52 PM

maybe on China will be a better grounds right now.

Still there is no truth from China having a cure against the virus. Second, I think all the abroad flights are closed and not a single fighter would ever now fly to China.

Smart move would be to start new round of trash talk. When everything with the virus would be finished, imagine how super pumped these fights would be Cheesy

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Quote from: YuginKadoya on April 04, 2020, 02:16:52 PM

I don't want to get my hopes all high on the UFC 249 event amidst the increasing number of positive patient in the USA and many in the country we recently have news about events that are still held in times the virus is keeping its pace high and many people are not very cooperative with the said Lockdown that the government had implemented, Well if Dana White could announce a place where there are no more Virus at all then I think this event will surely continue, maybe on China will be a better grounds right now.

Yup. And it's near where the champ is. Ferguson should be the guy to put a little more effort if he really wants the belt... Which he obv does.

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Quote from: tokeweed on April 04, 2020, 12:39:29 PM

^ Well... I guess I'm more optimistic than most with our current predicament. But let's see. I'm still hopeful. But if we see USN ships on their way to Chinese waters... It's time to worry. Lolol.

Even i want to remember this as a bad dream but the number of infected people keeps on rising and i am locked inside for weeks simply because of fear of going out as the death count keeps on climbing on a daily basis and there is no end to that which is really scary and the stress i am under is immense and i want to be optimistic but the stats are scaring the living hell out of me.

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Quote from: bbc.reporter on April 03, 2020, 08:09:54 PM

@eaLiTy. Agreed! Why is Dana always forcing the fight on schedule? Is this about money? Is he trying to make history that his show was the only one during a pandemic?

They already cancelled a couple of fight cards and the new owners purchased this for a whooping $4 billion dollars and if they are not able to continue with the shows then they will be in financial trouble and all their contracts means that they need to come up with shows to get the revenue and with the complete shut down they are in a sort of crisis on deciding how to move forward and so is the reason Dana is adamant to move forward with the show but they are yet to find a stadium and an athletic body that would sanction the fight and with the number of cases rising on a daily basis it is unlikely we will see this fight card happen.

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I don't want to get my hopes all high on the UFC 249 event amidst the increasing number of positive patient in the USA and many in the country we recently have news about events that are still held in times the virus is keeping its pace high and many people are not very cooperative with the said Lockdown that the government had implemented, Well if Dana White could announce a place where there are no more Virus at all then I think this event will surely continue, maybe on China will be a better grounds right now.

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John Kavanagh: ‘No chance’ Conor McGregor fights at UFC 249, July Justin Gaethje bout ‘talked about’

“You know that’s his thing. I’m sure Dana White was getting harassed; we were all getting harassed - that’s not going to change any time.”

https://www.mmafighting.com/2020/4/4/21207907/john-kavanagh-no-chance-conor-mcgregor-fights-at-ufc-249-july-justin-gaethje-bout-talked-about

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^ Well... I guess I'm more optimistic than most with our current predicament. But let's see. I'm still hopeful. But if we see USN ships on their way to Chinese waters... It's time to worry. Lolol.

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Quote from: tokeweed on April 04, 2020, 07:15:54 AM

^ Seriously? It's not because he's been trying so hard to get the match to happen since what...? 2013 or something?

I think we're gonna start seeing things get better in a couple of weeks. And the UFC prolly knows this or they could see it at least. So it's gonna happen.

I don't expect that things will be much better in just few weeks.
Look at China and with all their measures they had to go with months of total lockdown with great dicipline.
I doubt US will have any UFC event for months, or maybe in some deserted island without people.

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^ Seriously? It's not because he's been trying so hard to get the match to happen since what...? 2013 or something?

I think we're gonna start seeing things get better in a couple of weeks. And the UFC prolly knows this or they could see it at least. So it's gonna happen.

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Quote from: bbc.reporter on April 03, 2020, 08:09:54 PM

@eaLiTy. Agreed! Why is Dana always forcing the fight on schedule? Is this about money? Is he trying to make history that his show was the only one during a pandemic?

I reckon he should take all main event fighters in 1 event on August and lock them in cage and let them fight similar to the Royal Rumble hehehehehe.

it must be money. someone is forcing him to do so. its business or laundering probably. its always a possibility that a mob is forcing him. he knew its not possible due to pandemic. not accusing but if there is no sports event, it would be suspicious to send millions of dollars out to an account these days.

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@eaLiTy. Agreed! Why is Dana always forcing the fight on schedule? Is this about money? Is he trying to make history that his show was the only one during a pandemic?

I reckon he should take all main event fighters in 1 event on August and lock them in cage and let them fight similar to the Royal Rumble hehehehehe.

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Quote from: Bttzed03 on April 02, 2020, 08:50:49 AM

^ The man is eager to fight and doesn't want his months of preparation go to waste again with Khabib backing out for another reason. Tony Ferguson calling out Conor is a smart move. It's definitely going to be a big money fight if that ever happens. Making Tony fight Justin Gaethje, as replacement for Khabib, isn't really appealing right now.

We can have huge plans, but where is the fight happening, which country is willing to license a fight when thousands of people are dying because of the pandemic. As a fan i want to see Khabib and Tony but when you take into consideration that people are loosing their life and many people are forced to sit at home without any work, this is not a big thing as they can always reschedule the fight. I doubt that the fight will take place because there is only two weeks left and still the fighters have no idea where the fight is going to take place, what about weight cutting and jet lag and climate accumulation for these fighters as it is a huge process.

Quote from: NavI_027 on April 03, 2020, 09:43:20 AM

To be honest, their fight will be cancelled once again. You know why? Simply because a particular government will not choose to exemptions, for sure they don't want their own countrymen think that they are imposing favoritism lol.

Around 60000 people died because of this virus and you think any government will give a shit about a sporting event as they have other things to worry, the recession that will hit is a big concern and in a situation when all of government and the scientific community is trying to save and eradicate the virus do you really think that they will play favoritism for a sport .

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Quote from: notblox1 on April 03, 2020, 04:40:07 PM

Two good interviews with Khabib Nurmagomedov regarding UFC 249 and fight with Tony Ferguson.
I recommend everyone to check out and watch them....good information.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z463VzGnItk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6z43vymxz8

Thank you for these links (the second link is the same as the one of tokeweed above)
Well, Khabib feels a little bit disappointed indeed, but we can understand that I think.
I hope the fight will be able to take place at least during this summer Undecided

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Two good interviews with Khabib Nurmagomedov regarding UFC 249 and fight with Tony Ferguson.
I recommend everyone to check out and watch them....good information.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z463VzGnItk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6z43vymxz8

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^ I think Dana White can make some phone calls and pull some strings to fly Khabib out of Russia. I mean they have to understand. The guy has to work. Lol.

And the whole outbreak situation could get better by the second week of April imo.

Edit: And Andrade just got to Vegas a few hours ago? Wtf. Anybody got IG? I think she posted it there.

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