In preparation for his impending return to the UFC, Conor McGregor flew out a team of top athletes and coaches to join him for a training camp in Cannes.
The legendary MMA fighter hasn’t competed in the last two and a half years, but he’s excited to meet Michael Chandler again in December. He assembled a team of teammates from his own gyms, SBG Ireland and Crumlin Boxing Club, and used his McGregor FAST plan during a rigorous camp because he was upset with the lack of movement.
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Conor McGregor reaches France for UFC return
In addition to gathering a bunch of other coaches and fighters from his wider circle, McGregor travelled to the South of France with his longtime training partners Cian Cowley and Lee Hammond as well as his Crumlin Boxing coach Phil Sutcliffe. Because of other obligations, head trainer John Kavanagh wasn’t present, but he was still active, bringing Ciaran Clarke from Bellator on board.
“It was so spontaneous,” said Clarke “I was kind of having a ‘de-load’ week and I got a call from John asking how I was getting on, how’s your sleep and he says, ‘Look would you want to do a bit of training with Conor?’ I’d trained with Conor one or two weeks before that, so I go, ‘Yeah, what time tomorrow?’
Crosbie was chosen to face Kevin Jousset at UFC 293 in Sydney this coming Saturday, whilst Clarke had been aware of his Bellator 299 matchup against Przemyslaw Gorny at Dublin’s 3Arena for months. And McGregor started paying close attention to both men’s fights right away, scheduling extra training sessions to keep them in shape and carefully reviewing videos of their opponents.
He indicated that he was staying in Cannes to train despite the TUF finale taking place in Boston at UFC 292 in a protracted series of now-deleted voice notes. He seemed to be influenced by Brad Katona, the bantamweight tournament champion for his squad, who said that he did not stay up late to watch UFC fights in Ireland but rather went to bed early on a Friday and got up to watch.
During the nearly nine-minute tirade that was taped that evening in Cannes, it almost seemed as though McGregor was getting emotional at moments. He talked about the “epiphany” that convinced him to go to bed rather than remain up late to watch Ian Machado Garry beat Neil Magny.
