UFC 169 head-to-head with Super Bowl due to weather? 'I'll move my fight to Monday,' White jokes

So what happens if inclement weather forces the Super Bowl to move from Sunday to Saturday, which in turn would have it going head-to-head with UFC 169? UFC President Dana White doesn’t necessarily have a contingency plan, but he clearly has some thoughts.

“Wow, wouldn’t that be a f—er?” White said on Thursday (skip to the 6:30 mark of the above video). “Yeah, that would hurt.”

UFC 169 takes place Feb. 1 in Newark, N.J., a short jaunt from East Rutherford, which plays host to Super Bowl XLVIII the following day. However, with the NFL’s championship game taking place in an outdoor facility in a state known for harsh winters, Super Bowl officials have discussed a variety of contingency plans in the case of bad weather. Essentially, any day from Friday, Jan. 31, to Monday, Feb. 3, is an option for the game, though Saturday would be the strongest possibility.

That means the UFC’s Super Bowl weekend show – annually, one of its biggest events – would be fighting for viewers with the largest American sporting event on the planet. The Super Bowl has drawn up to 111 million U.S. viewers for a single game, and up to a billion people worldwide have access to the broadcast.

“If 120 million people are watching the Super Bowl on Saturday, that would – yeah, let’s just hope that doesn’t happen,” White said in reference to UFC 169, a championship doubleheader (with titleholders Jose Aldo and Renan Barao) that kicks off the UFC’s pay-per-view efforts in 2014.

And if they were forced to go head-to-head?

“I’ll move my fight to Monday,” he joked.

Obviously, such a move would be virtually impossible from a logistical standpoint, so the UFC is really at the mercy of the NFL – and the weather gods – for now.

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