While UFC 268 blew the roof off of Madison Square Garden in New York City, the MGM Garden in Las Vegas was as exuberant with the undisputed super middleweight title fight between Canelo Alvarez and Caleb Plant. The two fights ran simultaneously, with Canelo-Plant taking place as Rose Namajunas and Zhang Weili duked it out for the strawweight title at the co-headliner.
A similar situation happened in 2019, where Canelo Alvarez fought Sergey Kovalev the same night as the historic BMF title fight between Jorge Masvidal and Nate Diaz. But at the time, DAZN gave way and delayed the Canelo-Kovalev bout.