The fight is official.

UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov made it clear that he wanted to get paid for his fight against former UFC featherweight and lightweight champion Conor McGregor and wouldn’t fight unless it’s for big money.

Such big money that it needs on the same level as Nate Diaz made, which was $2 million, for his rematch against McGregor at UFC 202.

Nurmagomedov is on a mission to make sure he gets what he wants and that has happened as the UFC made it official on Friday, August 3, 2018 as the two will fight for the UFC lightweight title at the upcoming UFC 229 pay-per-view event.

The UFC 229 pay-per-view event is set to take place on Saturday, October 6, 2018 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.

The main card will air on pay-per-view at 10 p.m. ET while the preliminary card will air on FOX Sports 1 at 8 p.m. ET and the promotion’s streaming service, UFC Fight Pass.

It’s well known by now that McGregor and several members of his entourage decided it was a good idea to fly from Ireland to Brooklyn, New York, which is the site of the UFC 223 pay-per-view event on Thursday, April 5, 2018.

McGregor and his crew were let in by members of MacLife and they made their way down to where the buses were.

This is when everything went down as McGregor started throwing trash cans, chairs, barricades and other items at the buses. It was pure chaos, to say the least.

As a result of this incident, it led to three fights being pulled from the card as two fighters suffered injuries.

In July, he agreed to a plea deal that will have a record of guilty of disorderly conduct charge, which will see him do five days of community service, anger management classes and have to pay restitution for the damage to the bus.

BestFightOdds.com has Khabib as high as a 2-1 favorite over the Irishman peaking at -205 while McGregor sits at +167.

Khabib’s latest bout was the biggest fight thus far in his pro-MMA career and he had to go through some hurdles to make it happen in the main event of the UFC 223 pay-per-view event as it went through three official changes that include the UFC attempted to book Nurmagomedov against Tony Ferguson as well as Max Holloway and eventually fighting Al Iaquinta.