{"id":345802,"date":"2020-03-30T09:29:46","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T16:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=345802"},"modified":"2020-03-30T09:29:46","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T16:29:46","slug":"dana-white-on-ufc-249-location-when-you-need-to-know-ill-let-you-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/dana-white-on-ufc-249-location-when-you-need-to-know-ill-let-you-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White on UFC 249 location: &#8216;When you need to know, I&#8217;ll let you know&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UFC 249 main event between Khabib Nurmagomedov and Tony Ferguson is now seemingly a no-go thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, but UFC President Dana White is still insistent that the card will happen.<\/p>\n<p>The location of the April 18 event, however, remains a complete mystery.<\/p>\n<p>UFC 249 was originally expected to go down in Brooklyn, New York, yet this plan was derailed when the state banned public gatherings. White and the UFC have since been searching for a new location, but with restrictions and travel bans continuing to tighten, the list of viable options is very short.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Speaking to Frank Warren on the <a href=\"https:\/\/play.acast.com\/s\/frankwarren\/a7fb9ce9-94fd-4b28-a1f6-bc18b7f85998\"><span class=\"s1\">Heavyweight Podcast<\/span><\/a>, White addressed the mystery surrounding the location of the event. He&#8217;s heard some of the more outlandish suggestions out there \u2014 such as Alcatraz prison or an aircraft carrier \u2014 but says the final location of UFC 249 is still a moving target.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBelieve me, people have been talking about that,\u201d White said of potentially holding UFC 249 on an aircraft carrier (via <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/2020\/03\/ufc-249-dana-white-tight-lipped-plans-location-khabib-nurmagomedov-tony-ferguson-coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MMA Junkie<\/a>). \u201cI haven\u2019t resorted to that yet, but that\u2019s probably coming soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>White also took another shot at the media, blaming them for some of the issues he&#8217;s had locking down a setting for the UFC 249 event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of these media guys are absolute and total (expletive) scumbags,\u201d he said. \u201cAs soon as you let them know what you\u2019re doing, all they\u2019re trying to do is (expletive) up everything that you\u2019ve worked. So I\u2019ve literally told every one of these guys to go (expletive) themselves and I\u2019m not telling any of them what I\u2019m doing, where I\u2019m doing it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut know this: The fight is happening, April 18, somewhere on Planet (expletive) Earth. And when you need to know, I\u2019ll let you know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Where do you think UFC 249 will end up happening? Do you think Dana White should just bite the bullet and cancel the event?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPENN.com<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 3\/30\/2020. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UFC 249 main event between Khabib Nurmagomedov and Tony Ferguson is now seemingly a no-go thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, but UFC President Dana White is still insistent that the card will happen. The location of the April 18 event, however, remains a complete mystery. UFC 249 was originally expected to go down in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":343184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10112,39610],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dana White on UFC 249 location: &#039;When you need to know, I&#039;ll let you know&#039; | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The UFC 249 main event is now seemingly a no-go, but UFC President Dana White is still insistent that the card will happen.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/dana-white-on-ufc-249-location-when-you-need-to-know-ill-let-you-know\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dana White on UFC 249 location: &#039;When you need to know, I&#039;ll let you know&#039; 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