Dana White Planning UFC Event for May 9 at Undisclosed Location, Three Title Bouts Targeted

Per @danawhite, the UFC is targeting May 9 as a return date. (via @bokamotoESPN)

The proposed fight card would include:
Ferguson vs. Gaethje
Cejudo vs. Cruz
Nunes vs. Spencer
Ngannou vs. Rozenstruik
Cerrone vs. Pettis pic.twitter.com/8jDG6k6Rtt

— ESPN MMA (@espnmma) April 14, 2020

The Ultimate Fighting Championship roller coaster ride has resumed.

UFC president Dana White told ESPN on Tuesday that the promotion has targeted May 9 for its next event. That date was originally scheduled for UFC 250 in Sao Paulo, Brazil, but the card will be moved to an undisclosed location.

White has already built a full lineup for the event. Among the targeted fights are a trio of title bouts: Tony Ferguson vs. Justin Gaethje for the interim lightweight crown; Amanda Nunes vs. Felicia Spencer for the women’s featherweight belt and Henry Cejudo vs. Dominick Cruz for the bantamweight championship. Of the 12 proposed bouts for the card, some have been agreed to, while others are in the process of being finalized, according to the ESPN report.

The news comes less than a week after UFC 249 was canceled. White had hoped to move the April 18 event to the Tachi Palace Casino Resort in Lemoore, Calif., but he was ultimately asked to “stand down” by high-ranking Disney and ESPN executives. Afterward, White insisted that the UFC would be the first sports organization to resume its schedule.

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The Florida government recently updated the list of essential services in the state to include “employees at a professional sports and media production with a national audience” if the location is closed to the public, and World Wrestling Entertainment is already holding three events per week there at its Performance Center in Orlando. White has also mentioned a privately secured island that could host fights by May, though details remain scarce regarding that venue.

The full proposed lineup for the May 9 UFC event is as follows:

Tony Ferguson vs. Justin Gaethje
Henry Cejudo vs. Dominick Cruz
Amanda Nunes vs. Felicia Spencer
Francis Ngannou vs. Jairzinho Rozenstruik
Jeremy Stephens vs. Calvin Kattar
Donald Cerrone vs. Anthony Pettis
Greg Hardy vs. Yorgan De Castro
Alexey Oleynik vs. Fabricio Werdum
Carla Esparza vs. Michelle Waterson
Ronaldo Souza vs. Uriah Hall
Vicente Luque vs. Niko Price
Charles Rosa vs. Bryce Mitchell

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