As Petr Yan prepared for his Zoom interview, the UFC bantamweight champion kept getting up and moving around until he found the right spot. The background he finally settled on sun-drenched palm trees and sparkling ocean water could not have been more different from the surroundings planned for him just a few months earlier.
Yan was scheduled to make his first title defense against Aljamain Sterling in December, and his training camp was going to take place where he and his family live in Yekaterinburg, Siberia. Yan usually trains in Thailand, but pandemic-related travel restrictions forced an audible.
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