UFC At Dallas Cowboys' AT&T Stadium? Conor McGregor Will 'Make It Happen'

Former lightweight champion Conor McGregor plans on making a UFC event take place at the Dallas Cowboys' AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.

McGregor was at the 80,000 capacity venue over the weekend doing promotional work for his new whiskey "Proper Twelve," and got to hang out with some of the Cowboys players before their Sunday game against the Jacksonville Jaguars.

The Irishman's presence proved to be a good luck charm as the Cowboys bounced back from a defeat against the Houston Texans to come away with a 40-7 win over the Jaguars.

Before the game, McGregor was seen in conversation with Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, as he told the tycoon of his desire to have the octagon be in the center of the stadium one day.

“It is a spectacle, this place,” McGregor told Jones. “That octagon has got to be in the center one day. I’m going to make that happen. Especially now after being here and seeing it. I know it was rumored many times. We never got there but now is the time.”

Jones would later state the possibility wasn't out of the question, but added there were plenty of "nuances" that need to be taken care of before something like that could happen.

“Nothing is preventing (UFC coming to AT&T Stadium),” Jerry said. “Those are, at best, they have a lot of nuances. A lot of things have to come together. It’s huge economics involved all the way around. They are not quite as easy as saying, ‘Let’s get in here and we’ll hold up the flag and let everybody know you’re out here and we’ll get a crowd.’ It takes a lot of work."

"I do think he’s [McGregor] the kind of guy with interest that might be really special here in North Texas," Jones added.

It remains to be seen if the UFC would be open to this, given the many logistics.

The Las Vegas promotion typically stage their events at arenas with a maximum capacity of 18,000 to 20,000 fans. The biggest UFC event took place in Australia in 2015 when Ronda Rousey suffered her first-ever defeat to Holly Holm at UFC 193 at the Estadio Docklands where 56,214 fans attended.

Before that, it was Georges St-Pierre defending his welterweight title against Jake Shields when 55,724 fans attended at the Rogers Centre in Toronto back in 2013.

As Jones mentioned, a mainstream star is necessary for the massive AT&T Stadium to play host, and McGregor certainly fits the bill, being the biggest combat sports star in the world today.

The 30-year-old recently returned to MMA action earlier this month for the first time in nearly two years as he took on Khabib Nurmagomedov for the lightweight title at UFC 229.

Although he would lose via a neck crank submission in the fourth round, the buildup to the event saw the pay-per-view draw a reported 2.4 million buys, making it the biggest non-boxing event of all time, with McGregor claiming to be earning somewhere in the region of $50 million before the fight.

Many now feel a lucrative rematch between the pair could take place but it's dependent on what happens next week after the events that took place following the fight.