On this day in 2016, Conor McGregor met Nate Diaz in one of the most-watched rematches in UFC pay-per-view history.
McGregor and Diaz first met five months earlier in the UFC 196 headliner. Despite coming in on short notice to replace an injured Rafael dos Anjos, the ‘Stockton Samurai’ shocked the world with a second-round submission victory over the Irish megastar.
It was the first loss of McGregor’s career inside the Octagon.
Five months later, they would run it back at T-Mobile Arena in what would become one of the UFC’s biggest events of all time.