Combate Americas postpones return to action indefinitely next COVID-19 surge in Florida

Combate Americas has resolved to postpone their future return to action because of to the recent surge of COVID-19 cases in Florida.

The marketing created the announcement this week right after originally scheduling a series of playing cards that would be held guiding closed doors in Miami with the to start with show using area Aug. 28. Combate Americas hasn’t held an function considering the fact that February thanks to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

“This is not a choice we took frivolously, and is dependent totally on our concentrate to prioritize the security of our personnel, broadcast associates, fighters and the broader MMA local community,” Combate Americas CEO Campbell McLaren reported in a statement unveiled to the Associated Press.

“We explored many alternatives to keep away from this evaluate, such as the risk of relocating our in-studio fights to Los Angeles. Sadly, the condition of California is in a likewise precarious situation with COVID outbreaks, and it looks untenable to proceed with no getting into thought the well being of all those we enjoy.”

Florida was a person of the first states to loosen limits based about the pandemic with sports activities staying an “essential business” by Gov. Ron DeSantis. The UFC made its return in Jacksonville, Fla. back in May possibly for a sequence of displays that ended up held guiding shut doorways without an viewers in attendance.

Unfortunately, Florida has seen COVID-19 situations skyrocket in modern days which includes 517 new hospitalizations and much more than 369,000 total contaminated in the point out due to the fact the pandemic started off.

Although Combate Americas has delayed their return, the UFC has continued to place on occasions through the pandemic which include a collection of four functions held in Abu Dhabi that will wrap up with a card on July 25. Bellator MMA is also scheduled to return to action starting this Friday with displays being held at the Mohegan Sunshine in Uncasville, Conn.