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For all his talk and hype, to live up to it in such spectacular fashion is really, really impressive. They all talk their fights up, but he does it more than most and few can really live up it. He’s lived up to it and then some. He doesn’t even seem remotely surprised that he’s won the title in 13 seconds. The fastest finish in title fight history. “Nobody can take that left hand shot,” said McGregor. “He’s powerful and he’s fast, but precision beats power and timing beats speed. “I feel for Jose, he’s a phenomenal champion. He was a phenomenal champion. He deserved to go a little bit longer but at the end of the day, precision beats power and timing beats speed.”On the punch that will go down in history: “No power, just precision. No speed, just timing. These are fundamentals. That’s all it takes.” Aldo, still totally shell-shocked, says they need the rematch. He’s right, and we’ll surely have it. He also said it was not really a fight and you can see his point. For all the hype and build-up, it was over before it even began.

Luke Rockhold struggles to hold back the tears as he hears Bruce Buffer’s ‘...and the new’. “It’s indescribable,” he says. “I can’t even believe this is real.” He sees a replay of the moment the fight turned - Weidman’s failed spinning heel kick. Rockhold defended it, took him down and just went to town on him. He’s totally overcome with emotion.


So then, 5am and still two left. The pre-lims don’t seem two minutes ago! Chris Weidman vs Luke Rockhold. You’ve seen lesser fights headline cards and this is down as a co-main event. Really highlights the strength of the card. The undefeated Weidman goes into this as deserved favourite. Can Luke Rockhold do what Anderson Silva failed to do (twice!)? Can he do what Lyoto Machida failed to do? Can he do what Vitor Belfort failed to do? Looking back on Weidman’s bouts with Anderson Silva, I still feel the Brazilian would have won the first fight if it wasn’t for his showboating, and I think he’d have won the second if it wasn’t for his broken leg. But he didn’t, and now Weidman is on a 13-fight winning streak and #3 in the pound-for-pound rankings. Rockhold’s sounded very confident in the build-up to this. He looks at Weidman being in trouble against both Machida and Belfort. Weidman probably looks that he managed to recover and win both.