Most of the crowd had already filed out of Madison Square Garden, into the Manhattan night. The reporters on press row were at their laptops, typing their stories feverishly.
It was about 25 minutes since Georges St-Pierre returned from four years away from the Octagon to win the UFC middleweight title in his comeback fight against Michael Bisping. And GSP was still inside the cage with his coach Firas Zahabi, drinking it all in.
St-Pierre dropped Bisping in the third round with a left hook at UFC 217 in New York.