UFC 169 is scheduled to take place next Saturday night in Newark, New Jersey at the Prudential Center but the UFC has a contingency plan if the NFL elects to move the Super Bowl to Saturday.
The Super Bowl will be taking place at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey and is scheduled to be played on Sunday, one day after UFC 169.
However, there has been bad weather in the New York/New Jersey area over the last week and people have speculated about whether the NFL would move the Super Bowl to Saturday if there is going to be bad weather in the area on Sunday.
During the UFC on FOX 10 Post Fight Press Conference, UFC Senior Director of Public Relations Dave Sholler stated that the UFC has a contingency plan to move UFC 169 to Sunday, if the Super Bowl is moved to Sunday.
“We are keeping an eye on the Super Bowl in the event of bad weather,” Sholler said. “We are coming up with a contingency plan as a result. If and only if they move the Super Bowl to Saturday, we will move UFC 169 to Sunday. It obviously requires a lot of coordination with the venue, the fighters, and our TV production crews around the world. So again, we will be monitoring the situation very closely and we will only make the change should the Super Bowl move.”
According to Weather.com, the forecast for next Sunday in East Rutherford calls for a high of 37 and a low of 27, with a 60 percent chance of precipitation. If the Super Bowl is moved to Saturday and the UFC has to have UFC 169 on Sunday, this could hurt the amount of pay-per-view buys for the fight card.
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