Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis invited teams from other states on Wednesday to the Sunshine State to play ball because “we know that it can be done safely.”
The announcement arrived days after the UFC hosted its first U.S. event since the pandemic took hold in Jacksonville.
It arrived a day after The New York Times examined how the UFC broke its own safety protocols on several occasions at UFC 249.
It arrived a day after the nation’s leading coronavirus expert Dr. Anthony Fauci told the U.S. Senate that consequences of reopening too soon could be “really serious.