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Fighters, gym managers vow to soldier on as coronavirus becomes pandemic

Until someone tells him different, Eddie Wineland is fighting in 16 days at UFC on ESPN 8.

The veteran UFC bantamweight, currently scheduled to fight Marlon Vera, plans to take extra precautions in the gym as he prepares to fight at Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio. But the spread of the novel coronavirus hasn’t so far changed anything about his desire to fight.

”I don’t want to catch it, but at the same time, I’ve put in eight hard weeks of my life,” Wineland told MMA Fighting. “I’ve stressed myself. I’ve stressed my family.