Conor McGregor has accomplished a lot of things over the course of his career and one of the people who has stood by his side during it all is his long-time coach John Kavanagh. However, the 30-year-old has spent more time on building his brand outside the octagon over the past two years than he has spent inside of it, and it looks like that might be an issue if he wants Kavanagh to train him for upcoming bouts in the UFC.
In a recent interview with independent.ie, Kavanagh questioned if McGregor would ever fight again now that he has two kids and his whiskey company, and mentioned how he tried to talk McGregor into retirement following his victory over Eddie Alvarez at UFC 205 at Madison Square Garden.
“Well, he would certainly have to convince me to go again,” Kavanagh said.
“Yeah, I love him. I love the whole journey we’ve had, but I’d need a good ‘why’. It might be Diaz again because he promised that fight. It might be a rematch with Khabib. But if it was just: ‘Well, they want me to fight that guy’ I think I’d say, ‘I wish you the best.’”
It seems like Kavanagh will only encourage McGregor to get back into the octagon if it’s for a fight with Nate Diaz or Khabib Nurmagomedov, because with two kids and a whiskey company there’s no need for him to rush back to the UFC for a payday.
“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. 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.”
(H/T independent.ie)
