Conor McGregor is rounding back into championship form.
In an interview with SevereMMA, McGregor’s coach John Kavanagh gave a positive appraisal of McGregor’s form heading into his comeback fight at UFC 303 on June 28 in Las Vegas. “The Notorious” is set to fight Michael Chandler in a welterweight bout, in what will be McGregor’s first fight since July 2021.
Though McGregor’s star power has allowed him to pursue other opportunities in the world of entertainment as he recovered from a broken leg suffered in a loss to Dustin Poirier at UFC 264, Kavanagh said the former two-division titleholder rarely lets fighting stray far from his mind.
“He’s looking super slick,” Kavanagh said. “There are fighters that when they’re not fighting and after a while it’s difficult to explain to somebody and a lot of guys watching this that are 15 pro fights in, it starts becoming a job. It does. ‘My passion’ and ‘my love of this,’ it’s a job and it’s hard to keep the level of intensity. Even if it’s not physical, the level of mental intensity, of always thinking about training, always thinking about sequences, always thinking about techniques.
“That’s something Conor’s had naturally his whole career. So even though there’s times when he’s off filming, he’s doing this, he’s doing that, we’re still always having conversations back and forth, whereas some fighters are like, ‘If I’m not fighting, I don’t even want to look at shows. I’ll just get ready when there’s a fight coming up.’ And that’s really held to him because he’s come back on the mats as sharp as ever. Of course, we’ve got to get the rounds in and get the conditioning up to be ready for competition, but his technique is as sharp as ever.”
Coach: Conor McGregor technique ‘as sharp as ever’ ahead of Michael Chandler fight - MMA Fighting
