THE NOTORIOUS McG
It’s fight night at Madison Square Garden—the first ever UFC event in New York State, which had long outlawed the sport—and 18,000 fans, many of whom are dressed in three-piece suits, have paid upwards of $1,500 per ticket and flown halfway around the world to be here. The energy is palpable, the booze flowing. They’ve all come to see Conor.
The main event doesn’t get started till around 1:30 A.M.: the challenger, “Notorious” Conor McGregor, versus the defending lightweight champion of the world, Eddie “The Underground King” Alvarez. McGregor is the sport’s biggest star, a deadly mixed martial artist from Ireland with a big beard and an even bigger personality. He’s the undisputed featherweight champion and has bulked up to a new weight class for this fight.
McGregor enters the Octagon draped in an Irish flag, to a soundtrack comprising songs by it tells us. .
