SBG huvudcoach John Kavanagh är osäker på att hans stjärnelev Conor McGregor kommer gå någon mer match. Kavanagh säger dock att om Conor bokar en ny match kommer han måsta övertyga den irländske coachen att träna honom igen. Det var i alla fall så Kavanagh uttryckte sig i en intervju med The Irish Independent.
”Honestly? I don’t know. Will he fight again? I don’t know”
”I know him as a person and know that coming off two losses – even though one was boxing – will be hard for him. But he’s 30, two kids, and has a big whiskey deal that’s making him more money than fighting ever did”
Kavanagh fortsätter.
“Would you get up in the morning to be punched in the face? I don’t think so,”
“But he’ll probably call me tomorrow and say: ‘What did you say that for? I’m fighting in March.’ So I don’t know.”
“He would certainly have to convince me to go again. Yeah, I love him. I love the whole journey we’ve had but I’d need a good ‘why’. It might be [Nate] Diaz again because he promised that fight. It might be a rematch with Khabib [Nurmagomedov]. But if it was just: ‘Well, they want me to fight that guy’ I think I’d say, ‘I wish you the best.’”
Kavanagh uttrycker också oro över Conors hälsa.
“He has a wife and two kids now and I don’t want him taking more hits than he needs to,”
“Khabib hit him with a punch in that fight that he has never been hit with in his career. And even Superman slows down at some stage.”
Conor McGregor gick senast en titelmatch på UFC 229 mot Khabib Nurmagomedov där han blev avslutad på rear-naked choke i fjärde ronden. Nu återstår det och se om vi får se McGregor i oktagonen igen, den som lever får se.
