Eight days later and it's the new normal.
A Saturday after the UFC became the first major sports organization in America to restart operations amid the global pandemic, its third card in Jacksonville, Fla.—in spite of no fans and a slew of masked corner teams and officials—seemed almost a routine exercise by comparison to the first two.
The ESPN broadcast crew of Brendan Fitzgerald, Paul Felder and Michael Bisping was again at different tables and the conversations between fighters and their corners were still as noticeable as they'd been all week, but the show went on without a noticeable hitch, leaving Felder to suggest the company go ahead and keep things just as they are for awhile longer.