UFC Fighter Can't Get Medical Care After Brazil Event
Or Maybe The Show Didn't Need To Go On
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Today I take a brief look at the repercussions of the UFC insisting on keeping the UFC Brasilia card on the schedule.
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Well, it turns out the UFC’s insistence on staging Saturday’s UFC event in Brasilia, Brazil had some unintended consequences.
Let’s hear from Randa Markos:
Now, how about John Makdessi (via The Star):
“I’m under (self) quarantine right now — 14 days. And I need to get some medical assistance (as a result of the fight). I can’t even do that.”
“I can’t go to (the UFC) headquarters because I’d have to go to Vegas and I can’t travel,” he added referencing the UFC Performance Institute where medical and other help is available to fighters. “And here no hospital will see me because I’m in quarantine.”
This is less than ideal and could have possibly been avoided had the UFC not been so stubborn. The promotion probably thought that with all other sports being postponed, fans would flock to ESPN to tune in to the card at 3 p.m. ET on Saturday. Instead, the card did the lowest ratings of the UFC on ESPN era, drawing an average of 672,000 viewers on ESPN. The event also streamed on ESPN+ and was broadcast on ESPN Deportes.
Event / Average Rating:
UFC on ESPN 1 1,463,000
UFC on ESPN 2 828,000
UFC on ESPN 3 1,091,000
UFC on ESPN 4 957,000
UFC on ESPN 5 680,000
UFC on ESPN 6 805,000
UFC on ESPN 7 1,071,000
UFC Brasilia 672,000
Just to reiterate, White and the UFC in its hunger for profits put its fighters and everyone they came in contact with in danger and now the promotion has a fighter in need of medical care who cannot get it because White insisted the show go on.
