The Takedown | Dana White secures private ‘fight island’ with UFC 249’s Ferguson vs Gaethje set for tribal lands – could 2020 get any weirder?
- Ripped from the most absurdist of scripts, truth in 2020 is turning out to be much stranger than fiction
- UFC president White has secured an island, while UFC 249 will go off on tribal lands
If you told me five years ago in 2020 that US President Donald Trump would be taking serious heat for mishandling a global pandemic that sounds oddly like a brand of beer, while UFC president Dana White declared to the world he’s secured a private island to host fights because of a global lockdown à la Mortal Kombat or Bruce Lee’s Enter the Dragon, I’m not sure what I would say to you.
I might ask if you are off your medication, what recreational drugs you have been taking, or what mental institute granted you early release for good behaviour.
Welcome to 2020 people. If there was any doubt truth is stranger than fiction, it’s gone out the window, plunging hundreds of metres to the earth, crashing into a reality where abnormal is now the norm. Nothing fazes me any more. You could tell me tomorrow the Death Star had been spotted on the horizon and Godzilla was rampaging through Tokyo’s streets and I wouldn’t bat an eye.
On top of all this, White has locked down UFC 249 finally, and get this, it will reportedly be taking place on tribal land in a Native American casino, just south of Fresno, California.