Ronaldo “J’acare” Souza, who was scheduled to fight Uriah Hall at UFC 249 on Saturday, has tested positive for coronavirus.
While Souza will not fight, the UFC 249 card will go on as planned, Hunter Campbell, excecutive vice president and chief business officer of UFC told ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith on Friday.
Souza arrived in Jacksonville, Florida, on Wednesday and informed UFC officials that a family member had tested positive. Souza was asymptomatic but was isolated and tested, and Friday the test came back positive.
The UFC has conferred with Florida state athletic officials, who said the fights can go on as scheduled because the system worked in Souza’s case.
UFC 249’s main card begins at 10 p.m. ET on pay-per-view with preliminaries beginning at 6 p.m. on ESPN.
