UFC 249 Live Stream : Ferguson vs Gaethje Reddit MMA Streams

Dana White has been promising that the UFC 249 fight card would still be coming to us live on Saturday, April 18, despite the growing threat of the coronavirus pandemic that has shut down much of the sports and entertainment world. White has delivered on that promise as the UFC president announced on Twitter on Monday that not only will the card still run as planned, but it will be headlined by an interim lightweight championship fight between Tony Ferguson and Justin Gaethje. 
UFC 249 was originally slated to feature Ferguson challenging undisputed lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov in a matchup five years in the making at Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Those plans were halted, however, as Nurmagomedov flew back home to Russia to be with his family amid pandemic, leaving his training camp in San Jose, California behind as nations around the world tightened borders on travel.

With large gathering restrictions in place across the United States -- and the world -- the location of the closed-doors event has been one of the biggest questions regarding White's insistence that "the show must go on." When White tweeted out the announcement, his only hint of a location was no hint at all, saying the fight would happen "somewhere on Earth" and air on ESPN+ pay-per-view. ESPN's Ariel Helwani previously reported the UFC was looking to hold the event somewhere on the west coast of the U.S.
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