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I’ve been splitting time tonight between the press room and the arena. The atmosphere tonight is very different than for December’s UFC 194 when McGregor beat Aldo. That crowd was filled with Irish McGregor fans and they sang and changed for much of the night. You knew it was a McGregor crowd. Many of the McGregor fans here are American and the tone is completely different. It’s more subdued.

A telling moment came in an earlier fight tonight when an Irish fan stood on his seat and tried desperately to start an “Ole Ole Ole” chant. His shouts were met with silence and he had to slink back into his chair as people around him laughed at his failure.

The same was true during Friday’s weigh-in. Instead of a completely-filled MGM Grand Garden Arena where fans had waited from sunrise to watch a late afternoon weigh-in, the stands were half-filled and nobody lined up early to get in.