By Joshua Garcia
Being a fly on the wall during last week’s conference call between President Donald J. Trump and the commissioners of all of the United States professional sports leagues must have been quite the privilege. Leaders from the NBA, NHL, NFL etc joined together to discuss how to go forward during the Covid 19 pandemic, one man left the conversation more motivated than ever to start his sport up again.
Dana White the head of the Ultimate Fighting Championship of mixed martial arts has used his time in quarantine to come up solutions to all of his problems facing the Coronavirus outbreak. After facing tons of criticism for his canceling of his highly touted event, White went back to the drawing board and in an interview with TMZ Sports revealed some of his remedies.
Organizing events during the current pandemic are nightmarish, as Dana White eluded to coming up with contingency plans only to have them unravel the next morning as more information was provided from the CDC and more restrictions we’re enacted. White as of now has managed to save one of his scheduled events which will take place on April 18th of this month.
When asked about the venue for UFC 249 on April 18th in a mere couple weeks, Dana White smirked and said “ESPN”, as in the only revelation at this time is where it will be televised. White went on to reveal that one of his biggest hinderences to putting fight cards together is the United States travel restrictions which would prevent international fighters from entering the US at this time. Dana has that too, under control.
In order to provide the UFC crowd with entertaining events from fighters around the world, Dana White has allegedly secured a remote private island for the next two months in which he will be “pumping out fights every week”. White has put in place the necessary private planes to bring the combatants to what is being called ‘fight island’, and has medical hurdles all fighters, production staff, and all involved must pass before boarding the plane to the island.
The UFC commish if you will, says he is just days away from tying all the loose ends and finally announcing not only the location of said private island, but the cards and events which will take place there. Joe Rogan, who famously color commentates for the UFC was recently shared his reluctance to go back to any type of venue during this outbreak. White when asked about Rogan’s potential abscence from fight island replied much like his good friend in the White House, “you can’t listen to anything the media says…Rogan will be there.”
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