According to John Kavanagh, Conor McGregor is all in on making a UFC comeback next summer.
McGregor (22-6 MMA, 10-4 UFC) has said repeatedly that he wants to be on the UFC’s White House card next June, and his head coach, Kavanagh, said he’s already preparing for it. “The Notorious” hasn’t competed since July 2021 when he broke his leg in a TKO loss to Dustin Poirier.
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“On our end, we’re 100 percent in,” Kavanagh said on “The Ariel Helwani Show.” “He has asked me to basically lay out a program between now and June of how we will ramp up our training. He’s showing up again, he’s back in the gym most mornings early, he’s having fun with it, but I got a bunch of messages after the show on Saturday night. He wants to fight everybody.
“Certainly he wants to get on that card. So, how it works from the management point of view, that’s between them, so I don’t really get involved in that. But from a training point of view? He’s already tasked me with putting together a team of suitable training partners. We’ll do some of it in the gym, some of it in his house, so he is fully locked in that we are going to be making the walk in what is it, six, seven months?”
McGregor was scheduled to return against Michael Chandler at UFC 303 in June 2024, but a broken pinky toe pulled him out of the bout. He still sees Chandler, whom he coached against on Season 31 of “The Ultimate Fighter,” as the ideal comeback opponent.
This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: Conor McGregor’s coach encouraged by desire for UFC White House fight
