On Thursday, middleweight Ian Heinisch was taken off his scheduled prelim middleweight fight against Gerald Meerschaert. This development came after one of Heinisch’s cornermen tested positive for COVID-19.
That same evening, Heinisch was brought back on because the coach in question rendered a negative. It was the third false-positive case after Claudia Gaedelha and one of Dan Ige’s cornermen during the third and final fight card in Jacksonville, Florida last May 16.
During the post-fight scrum, Heinisch revealed that his cornerman was also in contact with other fighters. For a brief moment, he felt the entire card was in jeopardy.