The mindset in the McGregor camp right now regarding a fight against Floyd Mayweather: 'It's on.'
That's according to McGregor's coach John Kavanagh, who was interviewed on Fox Sports in Australia this week.
Curiously, one of those posing questions to Kavanagh was former Aston Villa and Man Utd goalkeeper Mark Bosnich.
In my mind, it’s on. That’s the mentality we’re in. There’s a lot of fingers in the pie with this one. There’s different promotions, different organisations, there’s different commissions that are involved.
But as far as I’m concerned, I’m really convinced it’s going to happen this year and that’s the mindset that I have. Let the people in the suits worry about the paperwork, we’re training for it.
Kavanagh also gave an insight into McGregor's current training regime and added that the bout, if it happens, is likely to be fought at 147lbs.
I said a quote, but I was kind of taken out of context, I saw it would be simpler training for boxing. But what I mean is that 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 jujitsu and Thai boxing. We can just focus on the boxing.
So, of course, we’re getting ready to fight one of the best defensive boxers of all time, but the training will become simplified because we only have to do boxing. It’s a new challenge, I’m excited about it.
You can watch the interview with Kavanagh below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj1RFprwnNU
