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Big UFC news dropped Friday when company president Dana White told ESPN's Brett Okamoto that UFC 249, which was scheduled to occur in Tachi Palace Casino Resort on tribal land in California, was cancelled upon request from state, Disney and ESPN higher-ups in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Per Kevin Draper and Oskar Garcia of the New York Times, one of the people requesting a cancellation was California Governor Gavin Newsom.
UFC's return date is undetermined, although Okamoto said on ESPN's Get Up that May 9 is a possibility.