https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/11751505/coronavirus-sport-live-premier-league-fixtures-f1-ufc/

Dana gave an update on Fight Island on Eddie Hearn's podcast:

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UFC president Dana White has confirmed the first ever 'Fight Island' event will take place on June 27 and revealed it is f***ing expensive and crazy.

The promoter has been determined to push full steam ahead during the coronavirus pandemic, managing to stage four shows behind closed doors, in Florida and then Las Vegas.

Speaking on Eddie Hearn & Tony Bellew's Talk The Talk podcast, White said: Fight Island is so f***ing expensive and so f***ing crazy and almost impossible to pull off.

You're talking about planes, flying people over, you have to quarantine people. It's insane to be even trying to do this. But I promise you we will do it and we will pull it off.

I believe that in doing this, it's going to help grow the sport immensely. It's going to help financially and in many different ways. I know we can do it.

I'm glad this is still going ahead with the lockdowns being eased, but there's no word on what fighters are going to be on the card yet. Without some big draws this could be a serious disappointment. With a couple of big fighters it could be huge. I can't see a fighter like McGregor turning up though given the short notice, unless they've been told to train for it for a while. If a big fight was going to take place on there though they would likely have been trying to promote them for a while.

Quote from: notblox1 on June 03, 2020, 01:33:25 PM

Looks like Jon Jones is blackmailing Dana White...
Pay what I want or I will quit UFC.
Ain't this funny.

It's not blackmail. It's just standing firm and trying to up your payday. Connor probably does it all the time. I doubt Dana will cave to Jones though. He's not a huge pull anymore.