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U.F.C. 249 Is Off After Requests From California, Disney and ESPN
NY Times ^ | April 9, 2020 | Kevin Draper and Oskar Garcia

Posted on 04/10/2020 6:25:44 AM PDT by C19fan

U.F.C. 249, a mixed-martial arts showcase scheduled for April 18 on Native American tribal land in California, was canceled on Thursday in response to apprehension about holding the event during the coronavirus pandemic. California state officials intervened by directly expressing their concerns about the event to Disney, the parent company of the U.F.C.’s broadcast partner, ESPN, according to three people with knowledge of the conversations.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Sports
KEYWORDS: mma; virus

1 posted on 04/10/2020 6:25:44 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan
This is crazy.

There is no public danger with airing a live function.

Next, they will be shutting down Trump’s briefings

2 posted on 04/10/2020 6:31:09 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: C19fan

Dana White, UFC President, is an out front Trump supporter. That’s what this is all about.


3 posted on 04/10/2020 6:38:40 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: circlecity

Yep, any and all efforts to bring back a thread of normalcy will be resisted.


4 posted on 04/10/2020 6:54:05 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: ConservativeMind

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjTfhhAIC-U

Joe Rogan does not agree.

If Joe is worried about something, that something is probably fairly considerable.


5 posted on 04/10/2020 7:26:48 AM PDT by chris37 (Coronavirus wasn't born in a bowl of bat soup.)
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To: C19fan
Report: UFC forced to stage UFC 249 to collect guaranteed payment from ESPN

"...the promotion only banks its $750 million payout for 2020 if it’s able to stage 42 live mixed martial arts (MMA) events for the Disney-owned ESPN, which includes the UFC 249 pay-per-view (PPV) card on April 18. A pretty tall order in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, which has shut down most of the modern world......

.....To date, the promotion has staged just seven of its 42 contracted fight cards......

Dana White will hold the events in his driveway if he has to, but times are getting tougher.

6 posted on 04/10/2020 7:42:48 AM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: C19fan
There are no native Americans.
DNA has proven that those people we call "native" aren't. They are originally from Asia, the Oriental part.
The Indian/Pakistani/Banladeshi part of Asia is Caucasian.

DNA doesn't lie. Those Asians DID migrate over the Bering Straits a LONG time ago and migrated all the way south through Mexico, Central and South America. But, they are still of Oriental Asian heritage.
Their DNA has altered over the tens of thousands of years but they still aren't native to the Americas. They weren't even the first humans here.

The first humans here hunted the mammoths. They built huge pits and drove them into the pits. Then the beast had to be killed. Even as a team effort the mammoth killed. The REMAINS of both mammoth and man were found in this country.
The HUMAN remains showed a human skull. It wasn't Oriental Asian because THEY have round skulls. They might have been African but, apparently, Africa was too far away for any Africans to be here.
The skulls found in those pits were oblong = Caucasian.

This is just history as evidenced by fossil remains. Google it if you have doubts or read about it from other bona fide sources.

7 posted on 04/10/2020 8:08:20 AM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: Anti-Bubba182
Dana White will hold the events in his driveway if he has to, but times are getting tougher.

Lol. GOOD one.

8 posted on 04/10/2020 8:08:57 AM PDT by cloudmountain
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