Conor McGregor on the Nate Diaz press conference: It was handbags

Primetime news broadcasts busily squawked about the smoke clearing over Las Vegas as Wednesday turned to Thursday, writes Joe Callaghan.

They were referring to an infinitely more imperative issue than two grown men lobbing bottles of water at one another in public. Wildfires are raging along the California-Nevada border in the scorching heat of high summer in the desert. The winds brought brief relief to the Las Vegas airspace at least on Wednesday night.