Three hours before the start of the UFC 229 main card, fans had already packed Toshiba Plaza outside of T-Mobile Arena.
The scene wasn’t unlike Friday before the pay-per-view card’s weigh-ins, or even Thursday outside Park Theater leading up to the UFC 229 press conference.
This is atypical for a Las Vegas fight. Then again, this is no typical fight.
It’s becoming increasingly likely that tonight’s main event between Khabib Nurmagomedov and Conor McGregor for the UFC lightweight championship will go down as the biggest fight in promotional history. UFC President Dana White has hinted the event could sell as many as 3 million pay-per-views, which would nearly double the previous record of 1.