The final faceoff before the UFC 229 main event was worth the wait.
Lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov and Conor McGregor were unable to get on the same page at a press conference on Thursday, with Nurmagomedov leaving the premises before a late McGregor could arrive, but their confrontation at Friday’s ceremonial weigh-ins made up for the lost time.
After the two hit the scales to pose for the packed crowd at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, the same site where Nurmagomedov will defend his title against Conor McGregor in Saturday’s headliner, they were brought together to face off and McGregor was first to break UFC president Dana White’s request that there be no physicality.