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UFC News: Justin Gaethje, Tony Ferguson, More React to UFC 249 Cancellation

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UFC is still reeling from the announcement by president Dana White earlier this week that he was indefinitely postponing all fights because of the coronavirus pandemic.

After securing a venue on a Native American reservation for UFC 249, the company became the latest sports entity to go on hiatus with its broadcast partner, ESPN, urging White to hold off. White still plans on holding fights on an undisclosed island in the near future to theoretically help his employees and partners avoid exposure to the pathogen, but that seems a ways away.