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UFC 249 is officially off. ESPN convinced UFC president Dana White to finally postpone the event that was slated to take place on a Native American reservation in California after the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, shut down because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Now the UFC is forced to grapple with what comes next. All future events are in limbo, and some international fighters, like lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov and Jose Aldo, may not be able to enter the United States for an unknown amount of time because of the virus.