Conor McGregor, Khabib Nurmagomedov Face Potential Suspensions Indefinitely For UFC 229 Brawl

Conor McGregor and Khabib Nurmagomedov are both facing potential indefinite suspensions from the Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC) following their post-fight brawl at UFC 229 Saturday night in Las Vegas.

In what was a dark moment for the sport on the biggest UFC event in history, Nurmagomedov incited a brawl between the two teams following his submission win over McGregor in the fourth round. Nurmagomedov jumped into the crowd to attack the Irishman's teammate Dillon Danis while McGregor jumped on the cage to join in before striking Nurmagomedov's brother Abubakar, who was also on the cage. Two members of Nurmagomedov's team, including fellow UFC fighter Zubaira Tukhugov, then entered the octagon and struck McGregor before authorities separated both teams.

McGregor later received his payout but Nurmagomedov's pay was withheld by the NSAC, as of now. The UFC lightweight champion is expected to receive a strict punishment, potentially including a fine and a long suspension. However, according to NSAC executive director Bob Bennett via ESPN's Ariel Helwani, both fighters would be temporarily suspended Monday for a 10-day period.

The suspension will end Oct. 24, which is when the NSAC will vote on whether the duo will be indefinitely suspended following the results of their investigations. According to sources close to Helwani, McGregor was likely to be sanctioned along with Nurmagomedov for jumping on the cage.

UFC president Dana White claimed after the event that Tukhugov would be fired from the promotion and his fight with McGregor's teammate Artem Lobov, scheduled to take place Oct. 28 at UFC Moncton, was now off.

Some, including Lobov, called for White to change his mind, but most interestingly, Nurmagomedov threatened to quit UFC if Tukhugov was not reinstated as he believed it was a case of double standards following the bus attack at UFC 223.

"Why didn't you fire anyone when their team attacked the bus and injured a couple of people?" Nurmagomedov posted on social media Thursday. "They could have killed someone there, why no one says anything about insulting my homeland, religion, nation, family?"

"Why do you have to punish my team, when both teams fought. If you say that I started it, then I do not agree, I finished what he [McGregor] had started. If you think that I’ll keep silent then you are mistaken. You canceled Zubaira’s fight and you want to dismiss him just because he hit Conor. But don’t forget that it was Conor who had hit my another Brother FIRST, just check the video."

"If you still decide to fire him [Tukhugov], don’t forget to send me my broken contract, otherwise I'll break it myself. And one more thing, you can keep my money that you are withholding," he added.

White is yet to respond to Nurmagomedov's threat and is unlikely to be happy the Dagestan native made his threat a public one.

Despite what occurred after the event, it was a huge success financially.

White claimed earlier this week it broke over 2 million pay-per-view buys, already a record for a non-boxing event, and the official estimates were 2.4 million buys, according to Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, smashing the previous record of 1.6 million buys, also set by McGregor at UFC 202.