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He may currently be the most talked about combat athlete in the world, but even Conor McGregor takes a humbling from time to time, with his coach John Kavanagh sharing a story about the time he "beat the shit" out of the UFC Featherweight Champion.
During his first session as a SBG Team member, McGregor floored women's division fighter Aisling Daly with a body shot during a sparring session that forced Kavanagh into action.
Speaking to The Irish Independent, Kavanagh explained, "It sounds worse than it was. He wasn't hitting her in the head or anything, but just happened to throw a body shot that hit her in the sweet spot, the solar plexus, and put her down.
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"I got a little emotional because Ash had been with me a long time and the other guys would look after her. But this new guy had come in and put her down, and my protective nature kicked in.
"I was still fighting at that stage, or hadn't stopped that long, so I put the gloves on... actually, he has corrected me on that and says it was bare knuckles. But I held him down and beat the shit out of him, without putting too fine a point on it."
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"I kept hitting him in the body until he couldn't breathe and then I looked at him: 'What's it going to be? We can train or we can fight?' And he was OK from the next day."
So, the morale of the story is - do not fuck with John Kavanagh, or anyone on his team.
(H/T The Irish Independent)
Topics: Conor Mcgregor, John Kavanagh, UFC, MMA