Ask any fight fan; there is no deeper level of anxiety in sports than the feeling you get when awaiting the judges' decision for a close fight that you're emotionally invested in.
That is exactly the feeling that the patrons of the Living Room in Dublin were going through sometime just after 5.30am on Sunday morning as they awaited Bruce Buffer's announcement as to who had won the gruelling five round war between McGregor and Nate Diaz.
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And you can almost visibly see the relief.
We haven't seen scenes like this since the reaction in Flannery's in Limerick's to Robbie Brady's goal against Italy during the Euros.
