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Veteran MMA referee turned Bellator commentator John McCarthy believes the UFC’s second stab at promoting UFC 249 will be a success.<\/p>\n

UFC 249 was originally expected to go down in Las Vegas on April 18. As the coronavirus crisis took hold, however, the card was briefly relocated to the Tachi Palace Casino on the same date, and ultimately canceled altogether.<\/p>\n

Since then, the promotion has constructed a brand new UFC 249 card, composed of matchups scheduled for the original UFC 249 as well as matchups from other postponed events. This new card will go down this Saturday, May 9 in Jacksonville, Florida.<\/p>\n

While the UFC’s first attempt at UFC 249 ultimately failed, McCarthy is optimistic this attempt will be successful.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe UFC as a promotion, look, they\u2019re a great promotion,” McCarthy told MMA Junkie<\/a> of UFC 249 (via MMA News<\/a>). “I would never sit there and say they\u2019re not. And I know people that they use as medical advisors \u2013 Jeff Davidson is their chief guy that they go to and he\u2019s a guy I\u2019ve worked with as a ringside physician for years in Nevada, and he\u2019s fantastic. He\u2019s a great guy and I know that he\u2019s putting together a plan and I know he\u2019s going to be working with a guy called Don Moosie who is a physician in Florida who is also the president of the Ringside Physicians Association. So they\u2019re doing everything that they can to make [ UFC 249 ] as functionally safe as possible. Does that mean they can cover every little gnat\u2019s ass there is? No. That\u2019s impossible unless they put people into quarantines for weeks before, and then weeks after. It\u2019s a position where you can only go so far.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I believe they\u2019re going to be doing all the right things for the officials, I believe they\u2019ll be doing all the right things for the fighters, and there comes a point where you\u2019ve got to start to try to move forward,” McCarthy added, giving UFC 249 his seal of approval. “And I think that, after waiting what they\u2019ve waited, I think this is a good time, and the athletic commission in Florida is able and willing to do it, so I think anybody that asks me about doing this show, I would tell them, \u2018Go do it.\u2019 (The) prior show? \u2018Don\u2019t do it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Are you with John McCarthy? Will UFC 249 be a success?<\/p>\n

This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i>BJPENN.com<\/i><\/span><\/a>\u00a0on 5\/5\/2020. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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