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The latest attempt to put on UFC 249 is targeting May 9 as the date at a location to be named later, and it promises a loaded card featuring Tony Ferguson vs. Justin Gaethje in the headliner.
The event was originally scheduled for April 18 but was postponed on April 9 along with all other events indefinitely amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Now, a week after that announcement, the organization is once again attempting to get its event schedule up and running. Brett Okamoto of ESPN has reported UFC is looking at the new date to hold the card with an altered lineup of fights:
As Okamoto noted, the situation is still fluid.