Secretary of the Department of Business and Professional Regulation Halsey Beshears had also made a post on Twitter directed to the mixed martial arts promotion UFC on April 7 , suggesting that his department could help sanction their events there ( however , after it intended to hold UFC 249 and other fights at a tribal casino in California , the promotion suspended all events indefinitely on April 9 , by request of its U.S. rightsholder The Walt Disney Company ) .
The UFC 's U.S. rightsholders are ESPN Inc. and The Walt Disney Company .