Thanks in large part to Conor McGregor and the fight-week buzz created by the organization’s faithful Irish fans, Saturday was the biggest day in UFC Fight Pass history.

That’s the word from UFC President Dana White, who, following UFC Fight Night 46 at The O2 in Dublin, said the organization’s digital network had its most successful event stream.

“Tonight was a big night for Fight Pass,” White said (watch his full post-event media scrum below). “It was the most watched prelims ever on Fight Pass, and it was the biggest number (overall) we’ve ever done.”

The UFC doesn’t release streaming figures or the total number of subscribers for the service. However, according to White, UFC Fight Pass, which launched in January, added a substantial number of new subscribers, who pay $9.99 a month for live event streams and a catalog of past fights from the UFC, WEC, Strikeforce, PRIDE and other fight promotions.

In Saturday’s headliner, McGregor (15-2 MMA, 3-0 UFC), who was the primary focus of the UFC Fight Night 46 marketing, scored a first-round TKO win over Brazilian featherweight Diego Brandao (18-10 MMA, 4-3 UFC) to create a deafening celebration at the Dublin fight venue.

The event, which also produced one of the year’s most successful international shows in terms of attendance and live gate, proved such a hit that McGregor called for the organization to host a soccer-stadium show in his home country.

To date the UFC has hosted just one stadium show – UFC 129, which drew a UFC-record 55,724 attendees at the indoor Rogers Centre in Toronto in 2011 – and its only outdoor shows have come in Abu Dhabi, where the threat of inclement weather (aside from scorching heat) is far less of a concern.

However, White hasn’t counted out the possibility that a UFC Fight Pass show, which traditionally take place in overseas locales with weaker fight cards, could open the door for one of the biggest event in UFC history – at least when it comes to Ireland.

“There are a lot of places here I think we could do (a stadium show),” White said. “We’ve just go to figure this thing out. Again, you weather scares me. It’s not like we can do an outdoor stadium and say, ‘Maybe it won’t rain in Ireland today.’ I don’t think I want to bet on that.”

Still, as international growth and an expanded event schedule become primary focuses for the world’s most prominent MMA organization, UFC Fight Pass will continue to play a central role. The digital network hasn’t been a hit from the start, but it’s clearly finding its stride. With new offerings, including a new streaming deal with Invicta FC and even live streams of events like White’s media scrums and state athletic commission hearings, it’s gaining a foothold with fight fans.

However, even White, who added to this week’s pre-fight buzz by picking up a 7,000-euro pub tab for Irish fans on Friday night, admits that the success of UFC Fight Fight 46 on UFC Fight Pass proved more successful than he could have imagined.

“I had real big expectations coming here, and it definitely exceeded it,” he said.

For complete coverage of UFC Fight Night 46, check out the UFC Events section of the site.