Dan Hardy has backed the UFC to fight through the coronavirus crisis as their next flagship show hangs in the balance. The organisation held a behind-closed-doors event in Brazil last month before being forced to postpone their subsequent events due to the pandemic.

But president Dana White is determined to cobble together a card for UFC 249 which is scheduled to take place on April 18. He has yet to finalise a venue with the world going into lockdown in a bid to combat the crisis, but Hardy believes there is a safe way to bring back live sport. "Although there are unprecedented things going on around the world, everyone wants a bit of normality and there are a lot of people who need an escape right now," he told . "I see both sides of

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