California opened up for crowdless shows in July.

But the increased cost -- promoters must foot the bill for COVID testing and other protocols -- has been too steep, with zero revenue coming in from ticket sales. MMA, still a young sport, is constantly evolving with new skills and tactics being implemented.

With gyms in big states like California and New York still closed and fighters lacking the ability to put training into practice during fights, the sport could be stagnant from an advancement point of view, said Foster, a former MMA fighter himself. They're stuck back in I think the real question is -- and I don't think anyone knows the answer -- is how does it come back? What does it look like? The fighters themselves don't have the answers either. Mitch Raposo, a top flyweight and bantamweight prospect out of Massachusetts, won his first amateur title in October At that point, he set a goal to be in the UFC by Then the world shut down.

Nobody cares about your plans. With the challenges currently in place, will the smaller promotions survive?

And will any blue-chip prospects leave the sport? Like Nguyen and many other fighters, Raposo is a personal trainer in addition to being a fighter. And for the past few months, that profession has been damaged as well by gym closures. And our progression is kind of like halted.

There are still some smaller organizations putting on shows. Valor Fights in Tennessee has run four events since the start of the pandemic with fans in attendance, including one last Saturday in Knoxville. To stay running with fewer fans, Valor has made its shows available online through pay-per-view. The demand from athletes to get on Valor's cards has surged, Loy said. The event last Saturday had 17 fights. From that standpoint, you're getting fighters to fight for a lot cheaper. There is little clarity as to when the combat sports world will return to "normal. Most are expecting these challenges to continue into Everybody is gonna be set back about a year.

So we're trying to beef that up. The two Irish-born prospects and their father, Fergal, have been living in Los Angeles, in part because of the boxing scene. Due to the pandemic and gyms being closed, they moved back to Ireland temporarily. That means no workouts at Griffith Park or on the Santa Monica stairs. But most importantly, no training with Roach. The sparring is world class in L. Before September, the McKenna brothers had not fought in , which was set to be a huge year for them.

Aaron, 21, was recently signed by Golden Boy Promotions but is still searching for his first fight of the year. A lot of our guys are right there. It's funny, we talked internally at the end of about how really should have been our year, because we have so many prospects who are at the point of turning from prospect to contender. But that developmental process from contender to champion just isn't happening in Englebrecht, one of the most-tenured combat sports promoters in California, promoted early fights for the likes of Deontay Wilder, Johnny Tapia and Dmitry Bivol.

Englebrecht has not run a show since the start of the pandemic, he said, because it makes no fiscal sense. And if those shows are not running, boxing prospects aren't getting the fights they need to make their way to high-profile matchups. That means more overhead and almost no profit attainable, in many cases, without paying fans. Unless a promotion has a broadcast partner paying for content, Englebrecht said, it just doesn't make sense from a business standpoint with no revenue from ticket sales. New York promoter Lou DiBella has also not run a show since the start of the pandemic, and he said a lot of his fighters are feeling the impact of the slowdown.

The younger fighters on the way up are the ones hurting the most, he said. In boxing, there is typically a longer developmental process.

MMA, boxing and wrestling are all facing a major issue: a cracked combat sports pipeline

Wilder wasn't getting high-profile fights until he was Many of the shows on the level he competed on to build himself up are not happening now, and the ones that are have much thinner undercards. You would get your televised fights, but the card might start three hours earlier with six prospects fighting. So, the shows This has also had a negative effect on women's boxing, DiBella said. Mikaela Mayer had time in the spotlight in July, and Jessica McCaskill, Cecilia Braekhus and Katie Taylor returned in August, but generally speaking, there have been minimal women's bouts since the sport's return.

There was a sign of hope for a return to normalcy, but the government recently halted plans to allow crowds at sporting events. Most of the top U. Without crowds, not only are promoters losing revenue, but fighters -- specifically the top boxers in the sport -- who get a share of the gate won't be making as much money, either. We can't afford to wait anymore because we might have to wait ages for crowds. Anthony Gutierrez signed to wrestle for top independent promotion Evolve in August Gutierrez was released.

Now it's like, boom, Evolve tanks, and I'm back to square one basically. Gutierrez would like to get booked on indie shows, but there aren't as many running now, and -- like the case with boxing and MMA -- it's competitive to get spots on cards. He has not wrestled since February.

The lack of fans at events has been damaging to MMA, boxing and wrestling in fiscal terms, but the impact on wrestling extends beyond money. It's a form of entertainment where crowd noise -- cheering, booing and chants -- plays directly into the matches or interviews. Crowd reaction can be an indicator of what's working -- or in wrestling terms, "getting over" -- or not. WWE has recently added virtual fans to shows, and AEW has an outdoor venue with socially distanced fans at a lesser capacity.

But doing shows in front of crowds safely has been difficult for smaller promotions. Crowds are one of the greatest members of your roster. They can take matches to the next level, help you gauge what's working and what's not working as a matchmaker, as well as if you're out there as a wrestler. Without that instant free-market research, you kind of lose a sense of the pulse of what works.

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