“Any mass event can directly lead to the risk of infection of even more people. I very much doubt that this is possible, because people from all over the world can come to such a duel, ”the NSN quotes Valuev.
He also emphasized that holding such a fight without spectators is contrary to the mass sport, and holding a battle in full stands raises the issue of security.
On April 1, Nurmagomedov announced that the title fight with Ferguson, which was scheduled to take place on April 18 in New York as part of the main event of the UFC 249 tournament, was canceled because he could not fly away from Russia due to quarantine due to the coronavirus pandemic. Thus, their battle has been canceled for the fifth time since 2015.
On April 5, Maxim Korolkov, executive director of the Federation of hand-to-hand combat and mixed martial arts of Belarus, announced the possibility of organizing UFC 249 in Minsk.
Earlier, Belarus denied data on the battle of Nurmagomedov and Ferguson in Minsk.