Following a series of three UFC events Woodley vs Burns live over the course of eight days in Jacksonville, Fla., UFC president Dana White assured everyone that the promotion would hold its next event on May 30, even though he doesn't yet have a definitive location for it.
White fully intends to start running events at the UFC's Apex facility on its Las Vegas campus beginning with the May 30 event, but that is dependent upon the lifting of COVID-19 related restrictions in Nevada. If Nevada doesn't yet allow the UFC to operate at its home base, White is prepared to go to Arizona.
Governor Doug Ducey last week announced that professional sports leagues could return to Arizona without an audience in attendance.
"I don't know yet (if the Apex will be allowed), but that's what we're working for," White said following UFC on ESPN 8, the third and final event in Jacksonville. "We're rolling now. If we can't get May 30 at the Apex, it's going to be super disappointing, but we will go somewhere else."
Asked if that somewhere else might be Arizona, White replied, "That’s where I’ll go. That’s 100 percent where I’ll go."
Tyron Woodley vs. Gilbert Burn to headline UFC Fight Night on May 30
Regardless of it being held in Las Vegas or Arizona, the UFC Fight Night event on May 30 is expected to feature a headlining bout between former welterweight champion Woodley vs Burns live online.
Woodley was expected to headline a Fight Night event opposite fellow former champ Robbie Lawler, but a nagging hand injury forced him out of the fight. He was recently slated to fight Leon Edwards in a Fight Night headliner on March 21 in London, but coronavirus restrictions nixed that event altogether.
Burns on Tuesday Tweeted that he had signed his bout agreement for the fight, now it's just a matter of learning where the fight will take place, in Las Vegas or Arizona, likely in Phoenix.
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