Any data on COVID cancellation rates in the UFC?

[Rebel_LioN]

I’m curious to how many fights / what percentage of them get cancelled due to COVID so far. It’s gotta be in the 25% range or 3 out of 12ish scheduled bouts is my guess.

It’s pretty alarming because these guys are young, healthy, and physically fit human beings. But of course they’re in contact with training partners and the likes so it’s hard to keep distant.

EDIT:
total number of reported UFC fighters who tested positive for COVID-19 as of 1/1/21 = 49


https://www.bloodyelbow.com/2219848...ighters-who-have-tested-positive-for-covid-19

 

[oldschoolmmafan]

Dana White should be awarded for what he has managed to achieve during the Covid crisis. Reminds me of that ah, 9/11, now that was a national tragedy.

 

[Hellowhosthat]

20-25% sounds about right to me, yeah.

 

[Dreyga Hates You Sherbums]

Apparently they have a .8 positivity rate

 

[felmmando]

Dana White should be awarded for what he has managed to achieve during the Covid crisis.

What do you want to award him?

 

[felmmando]

Apparently they have a .8 positivity rate

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26'300??? How many times a day do they test every fighter on the roster?

 

[oldschoolmmafan]

What do you want to award him?

Something to signify his importance during this whole debacle, what about one of them ah,... Nobel thingos.

 

[Dreyga Hates You Sherbums]

26'300??? How many times a day do they test every fighter on the roster?

It’s not just the fighting roster. The UFC has full administrative staff, it’s own production team, the performance institute, medical workers, and etc. Everyone gets tested

Thats how they get to that number

 

[RedFoxNdisBihhh]

that .8 is a load of crap !!


they based it on number of test rather than people on roster or total employed by UFC


some people have taken the test numerous times ... some people havent even tested under UFC emplemented testing


just smoke n mirrors folks ... more wolf tickets

 

[Fergelmince]

Apparently they have a .8 positivity rate

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Sweet! That makes it look like they paid fighters even more last year...just like USADA testing.

 

[Volador]

Apparently they have a .8 positivity rate

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26,300 @0.8% positivity rate = 210 positives.

Events per year 42 x average # of fights per event 12 (is it 12?) = 504 fights. Well, corona didn't start in January, but whatever.

It's hard to tell because some of those positives might be staff, corner men, false positives, or a duplicate for the same fighter being re-tested to confirm. If half of the positives were all different fighters (105), then

105 positives, 504 fights with 2 fighters each, 1008 total fighters (some fought more than once a year, but for the sake of calculation we can assume they're different people, since they can test positive at any time). So the positives would be 105/1008. The odds of "drawing" a single positive from a pool of 100/1000 for any one fight, assuming we're drawing twice (we need 2 fighters to make the fight) are: (1/10.9/10) x 2 = 18/100. The odds of drawing 2 positives in a row for a single fight would be 1/10.1/10 = 1/100. The odds of drawing 2 negatives would be 9/10.9/10 = 81/100.

Using those numbers, 5/500 fights might be "double coronas", 90/500 would contain one corona positive, and 405/500 would be all negative. So 95/500 fights might be affected, or 19%. Of course a lot of fights get replacement opponents, so that would bring down the number of cancellations.

All the numbers are made up though, but thanks for coming to my TED talk.

 

[Satan's Daddy.]

Lotta of them get popped more than once, idk why folks acting like once u have it once, it never comes back... lol. They believe anything ppl tell them.. hell the sky is purple and they be like "yes, ma'am it is"

 

[RedFoxNdisBihhh]

@Volador

.....Ted Talk




i like to replace "Blood" with "Ted" when i think of you now <Lmaoo>

 

[Volador]

@Volador

.....Ted Talk




i like to replace "Blood" with "Ted" when i think of you now <Lmaoo>

 

[Straatblaffer]

Dana White should be awarded for what he has managed to achieve during the Covid crisis. Reminds me of that ah, 9/11, now that was a national tragedy.

What did he manage to do that your supermarket hasn't?

 

[joenewbie]

What did he manage to do that your supermarket hasn't?

Supermarkets were never shutdown. Live entertainment was. NBA, NHL, UFC, and WWE came to a halt. MLB didn't start their season and NFL probably wasn't going to. Then Dana and Vince McMann decided to have shows without an audience and....you know the rest: everyone, including NBA and MLB freaked out and refused to support them but they pushed on and now here we are. Thank Dana that you have the major team leagues playing right now.

Or were you simply trolling??

 

[Straatblaffer]

Supermarkets were never shutdown. Live entertainment was. NBA, NHL, UFC, and WWE came to a halt. MLB didn't start their season and NFL probably wasn't going to. Then Dana and Vince McMann decided to have shows without an audience and....you know the rest: everyone, including NBA and MLB freaked out and refused to support them but they pushed on and now here we are. Thank Dana that you have the major team leagues playing right now.

Or were you simply trolling??

No, I just wondered what you meant. As I see it, UFC would have been in huge trouble if it did not honored it's ESPN deal. Dana did not really have a choice, while NBA etc did. It was pretty much an ego thing over a responsible act. Don't get me wrong, he worked his ass of to get the UFC going, but I don't agree at all with people making him a hero.

 

[Dreyga Hates You Sherbums]

No, I just wondered what you meant. As I see it, UFC would have been in huge trouble if it did not honored it's ESPN deal. Dana did not really have a choice, while NBA etc did. It was pretty much an ego thing over a responsible act. Don't get me wrong, he worked his ass of to get the UFC going, but I don't agree at all with people making him a hero.

I agree making him a hero is a bit much, but even if the UFC went down Dana would still be a multi-millionaire. He had nothing to worry about at all if UFC shut down for an extended period.

He could have just as easily canned most of the UFC employees or offered them reduced stipend like majority of the companies in US did. The ESPN deal could have been re-negotiated given the extreme circumstances.

Instead he didn’t fire a single person, spear headed a COVID protocol, and made sure all of fighters were able to work and earn money. That should be commended.

 

[Bookerman]

25% ? You must watch the fear box regularly because it a minute amount, like less than 1% I’m sure the UFC said

 

[Rebel_LioN]

25% ? You must watch the fear box regularly because it a minute amount, like less than 1% I’m sure the UFC said

They must have not taught you how to read in school huh