From a Yahoo article
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The reasons are two-fold, according to UFC COO Lawrence Epstein. First, UFC was hoping to host a select number of fans at the event, which won’t end up happening. Second, and more importantly, UFC is satisfying its local broadcast partners in Europe, Asia and North Africa, which would obviously prefer to have a fight of this magnitude start in their evening, as opposed to the middle of the night.
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Basically they needed to throw a bone to the other global time zones. It's expected to cost them roughly 1/3rd of their usual PPV take so keeping 'em happy ain't cheap.
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