UFC Archives | Bet Sunday https://betsunday.com/category/ufc/ Your Best Source for Sunday Football Sun, 24 May 2020 02:42:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 New order will allow foreign-born athletes to enter U.S. https://betsunday.com/2020/05/24/new-order-will-allow-foreign-born-athletes-to-enter-u-s/ https://betsunday.com/2020/05/24/new-order-will-allow-foreign-born-athletes-to-enter-u-s/#respond Sun, 24 May 2020 02:42:32 +0000 https://betsunday.com/2020/05/24/new-order-will-allow-foreign-born-athletes-to-enter-u-s/ Empty seats (Photo by Friso Gentsch/Pool via Getty Images ) New order will allow foreign-born athletes to enter U.S. The sports world seems to slowly be coming together again and a new order from the acting U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf will allow athletes living outside the U.S to enter the states, even

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New order will allow foreign-born athletes to enter U.S.

The sports world seems to slowly be coming together again and a new order from the acting U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf will allow athletes living outside the U.S to enter the states, even if travel bans are in effect.

“Professional sporting events provide much-needed economic benefits, but equally important, they provide community pride and national unity,” Wolf wrote (h/t The Score) “In today’s environment, Americans need their sports. It’s time to reopen the economy and it’s time we get our professional athletes back to work.”

Which leagues will be affected?

This news comes as sporting leagues are deciding where and when to re-open their seasons. The MLB has been toying with an 81 game season, for example. The order specifically mentions leagues such as the MLB, the NBA, the NHL, the WNBA, the PGA and LPGA tours, and the ATP and WTA tennis tours.

Currently the only sports happening in the U.S are MMA fights via the UFC promotion and WWE events. The UFC returned to action two weeks ago and has held three events to arguable success. There was one athlete, Jacare Souza, and two coached who flagged for positive coronavirus tests and he was removed from his upcoming fight.

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WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 14: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during the daily briefing of the White House Coronavirus Task Force in the Rose Garden at the White House April 14, 2020 in Washington, DC. President Trump announced that he is halting funding for World Health Organization WHO. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON, DC – APRIL 14: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during the daily briefing of the White House Coronavirus Task Force in the Rose Garden at the White House April 14, 2020 in Washington, DC. President Trump announced that he is halting funding for World Health Organization WHO. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

United States President, Donald Trump, is asking some of the biggest names in sports, including Roger Goodell, Jerry Jones and Dana White for their help restarting in the US economy.

If that’s not a sentence you thought you’d ever seen before, you aren’t alone.

According to FOX’s Andy Slater, a large group of the biggest names in sports management will be joining with Presiden Donald Trump to help jumpstart the United States economy which has been suffering ever since most of the world shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Those in the inner circle will be Adam Silver, Rob Manfred, Roger Goodell, Gary Bettman, Robert Kraft, Jerry Jones, Dana White, Vince McMahon and Mark Cuban.

Here is a breakdown of each man and their connection to sports:

  • Adam Silver, Commissioner of the NBA
  • Rob Manfred, Commissioner of the MLB
  • Roger Goodell, Commissioner of the NFL
  • Gary Bettman, Commissioner of the NHL
  • Robert Kraft, Chief Executive Officer of the New England Patriots
  • Jerry Jones, Owner of the Dallas Cowboys
  • Dana White, President of the UFC
  • Vince McMahon, CEO of WWE
  • Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks

“We need to get our sports back,” Trump said on Tuesday.

The news comes just days after the Florida governor’s office declared WWE to be an essential business and just minutes after news broke that the UFC would be going ahead with a plan to host a fight card, despite being strong-armed into canceling it’s UFC 249 event which was to be held on tribal lands in California.

This also comes the same day that the MLB announced it would be participating in a “massive coronavirus antibody study, with up to 10,000 tests taken nationwide over the next two days.”

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