MELBOURNE, Australia
The UFC’s first event at massive Etihad Stadium in Melbourne already has been a record setter, requiring some of the largest volumes of production equipment and engineering in the company’s history to set up UFC 193 for a worldwide audience.
A day before weigh-ins, Tim O’Toole, the UFC Senior Vice President, Event Production, took stock of the traveling road show overtaking the Etihad Stadium infrastructure – in particular, the sheer amount of equipment hanging from the structure’s enormous roof.
“In the 15-year history of this stadium, we have the most rigging points of any event that has come in here, and the most tonnage hanging from their roof,” O’Toole said.