The much-talked about boxing match between Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather still hasn’t been officially signed up yet, but despite all the red tape remaining, SBG coach John Kavanagh says ‘The Notorious’ is already in training for the fight.
“In my mind, it’s on,” Kavanagh told FOX Sports. “That’s the mentality we’re in. Like you said, there’s a lot of fingers in the pie on this one. There’s different promotions, different organizations, different commissions that are involved but as far as I’m concerned, I really believe it’s going to happen this year. That’s the mindset I have.
“Let the people in the suits worry about the paperwork. We’re training for it.”
With that in mind, it appears that McGregor has abandoned his usual MMA training for now, and is instead focusing solely on ‘the sweet science.’
“Boxing is one of the 10 skills you need for mixed martial arts. But now we’re only doing boxing so we can drop wrestling and jiu-jitsu and Thai boxing, we can just focus on the boxing,” Kavanagh said.
“So of course we’re getting ready to fight arguably one of the best defensive boxers of all time, but the training will become simplified cause we only have to do boxing so it’s a new challenge I’m excited about.”
As things stand it’s believed that September is still the tentative date that’s been penciled in for the fight, but it remains to be seen if all the parties involved can reach an agreement in time to make that a reality.
