UNCASVILLE, Conn. – After fighters on the Bellator 241 card made weight Thursday and had faceoffs with their opponents, everything seemed fairly normal.
But later that afternoon came word from Connecticut’s governor that gatherings in excess of 250 people were banned for now in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. Bellator responded by shutting down the event at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville to fans. Instead of a normally fairly packed house in one of the promotion’s most visited venues, the fights were set to go on – with no one cheering but the corners.
On Friday afternoon, though, everything got turned on its head and Bellator decided to postpone the event outright – taking just about everyone by surprise, given it appeared to be set to go off, albeit under unique circumstances.
In the wake of the cancellation, MMA Junkie caught up with co-main event featherweight tournament fighter Daniel Weichel, as well as popular Connecticut-based fighter Nick Newell, Justin Sumter and Romero Cotton to get their reactions to having not only their fights, but the entire card scrapped on the day of the event.
Check out what they had to say in the video above.
Bellator doesn’t have another event scheduled until May 8 in San Jose, Calif. But given the current state of large gatherings the world over due to the coronavirus outbreak, nothing is set in stone anymore and time will tell just when Bellator gets fighters back into action.
Video: Fighters react to Bellator 241's postponement on day of event
