The two fighters weren't present onstage in Los Angeles on Friday as UFC President Dana White announced the biggest fight of the year between lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov (26-0) and the sport's biggest star, Conor McGregor (21-3). And perhaps that was a good thing, if not for the two athletes, for everyone else on the dais and the first couple of rows of media waiting not so patiently for the announcement.
After all, McGregor and Nurmagomedov haven't always managed to maintain even the minimal manners required of a professional cage fighter in the buildup to a major fight.