yeah, it's a good question. some of the mainstream press articles i saw talking about the upcoming event didn't mention the time, and i think it's inevitable that there will be a ton of people that didn't realise what they were buying. on ticketmaster it says 11pm, it's only when you click 'more' that it tells you the event is 11pm - 6am, haha.
fwiw, bisping v silva in london, main card started 9pm. totally reasonable. obviously that was 'just' a fight night and they were happy for the main to start at 4pm east coast.
the gustaffson card i mentioned earlier was a 'ufc on fox' event where the main card started at 2am.
ufc 112, silva v maia in the UAE was a 1pm USA PPV.
so it seems like they've been more flexible in the past, but now that it's a much bigger sport i'm guessing that we won't see any more of that when it comes to PPVs.
whenever croke park was talked about in this forum and someone would mention the curfew, i assumed he just meant that UFC events tend to run a little late and end near midnight. it never crossed my mind that you would want 80,000 people in a football stadium at 5am.
edit - found this thread where everyone pretty much concurs:
https://www.reddit.com/r/MMA/comment...la&sh=4bc2461f
Last edited by Yeti; 10-05-2016 at 02:39 AM.