UFC 249 takes place on Saturday, May 9, 2020 at VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Florida. The featured matches of this mixed martial arts PPV event are two championship bouts:
The headlining bout is a fight is for the interim UFC Lightweight Championship between former interim UFC Lightweight Champion Tony Ferguson and #4 in the UFC lightweight Justin Gaethje.
The co-headlining bout for the UFC Bantamweight Championship pits current champion Henry Cejudo against former two-time UFC Bantamweight Champion Dominick Cruz.
Main card: (ESPN+)
*Lightweight: Tony Ferguson vs. Justin Gaethje
*Bantamweight: Henry Cejudo vs. Dominick Cruz
Heavyweight: Francis Ngannou vs. Jairzinho Rozenstruik
Featherweight: Jeremy Stephens vs. Calvin Kattar
Heavyweight: Greg Hardy vs. Yorgan de Castro
* = title bout
Preliminary Card (ESPN)
Welterweight: Donald Cerrone vs. Anthony Pettis
Heavyweight: Aleksei Oleinik vs. FabrÃcio Werdum
Women’s Strawweight: Carla Esparza vs. Michelle Waterson
Welterweight: Vicente Luque vs. Niko Price
Early Preliminary Card (ESPN+)
Featherweight: Bryce Mitchell vs. Charles Rosa
Light Heavyweight: Ryan Spann vs. Sam Alvey
Since all bars are still closed to the public due to the Covid-19 pandemic, there are no public venues showing the fights. Instead, the fights are available via Pay Per View on ESPN**
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