Well folks, it's the intermission between the dark portion of the card (the portion of the card not televised on pay-per-view) and the main card (which will be televised on pay-per-view).  The main card will begin at 10 PM EST.  Because all the fights have been fairly quick ones, I have about half an hour to kill.

The arena is still filling up.  It's a very late-arriving crowd.  I can't even tell if the arena will be sold out for this event.  I'm not sure why this is the case -- maybe because it's Memorial Day weekend.

I can pass on a personal story regarding the attendance at this event.  I'm here with a few friends enjoying the fights and the long weekend in Vegas.  One of my friends, Steve, didn't have a ticket to UFC 71 so he decided to see whether he could obtain one right before the event began.  It turns out he didn't have a difficult time at all.  In fact, he was able to purchase a $500 ticket for only $200 and a beer (seriously, my friends are nice people, aren't they?).  With what I'm seeing in the arena and my friend's story, I'm betting this event won't be sold out.  This is a bit shocking to me, especially given all the hype UFC has been getting in the national sports media recently (ESPN The Magazine and Sports Illustrated) as well as the magnitude of the Liddell-Jackson fight.