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Ricardo Ramos withdraws from UFC Vegas 24 after positive COVID-19 test
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UFC Vegas 24 has taken another hit due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ricardo Ramos, who was scheduled to face Bill Algeo in a featherweight bout at the UFC APEX on Saturday night, has tested positive for the viral infection and was removed from the card, MMA Fighting has learned. MMAjunkie first reported the news.
“The test came back positive, unfortunately,” Ramos told MMA Fighting on Wednesday. “Thank God I’m fine and that’s what matters. I have no symptoms, but there’s nothing we can do.”
Another season of
The Ultimate Fighter is in the books and another new UFC champion is set to be crowned. TUF 26 marks the second time the promotion has used its flagship reality show to award a title to a new weight class.
Much like the prior season with the same format, TUF 20, the show’s roster was comprised of women, this time in the flyweight division. And like that iteration, a large portion of the cast was pulled from all-women’s promotion Invicta Fighting Championships. Some of the choices were no-brainers: inaugural Invicta champion Barb Honchak, UFC veterans Roxanne Modafferi and Lauren Murphy, as well as former Invicta title challenger DeAnna Bennett. But there were plenty of fresh faces from the international scene as well.