"[Khabib] got caught up in Russia. It was a total mishap. We all made mistakes in that one. Nobody's to blame for that."@danawhite tells @bokamotoESPN about the difficulty of pulling #UFC249 together. pic.twitter.com/gga3JaRpqH
— ESPN MMA (@espnmma) April 7, 2020
“Obviously everybody knows that the Khabib fight fell out,” White told ESPN’s Brett Okamoto.
“I could go on for ten minutes telling you how that whole thing fell apart, but the reality is that’s nobody’s fault.”
“Every day when I got up, the rules changed,” White said.
“Every day. Things were shutting down, things were closing down. Many people thought that this would be impossible for us to pull off. I’m always of the mindset that nothing is impossible. We’ll get this figured out, where there’s a will there’s a way.”
“He got caught up in Russia. It was a total mishap, we all made mistakes on that one. Nobody is to blame for that one, is it what it is. The fact that we can even pull off an event right now… This is the hardest thing I’ve ever done.”
Nurmagomedov, the undefeated lightweight champion and one of the most famous fighting names on the planet, was stuck in his native country and this appears to be White’s most significant regret about the issue.
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