For now, next Saturday’s UFC flyweight title bout is still intact.
Scheduled to rematch Joseph Benavidez on July 18th in Abu Dhabi, Deiveson Figueiredo’s hopes of becoming champion were put in jeopardy after he tested positive for COVID-19. Figueiredo was set to fly out to Yas Island when the positive test occurred, but another test has come back negative, per his manager Wallid Ismail.
The original report said that Figueiredo had the coronavirus two months ago and that this might have been a false positive. MMA Fighting has the explanation on what could’ve caused that positive.