Conor McGregor's head trainer says this version of the UFC fighter is the best he's ever seen as they get set to leave Dublin for the his comeback in Las Vegas this month.
McGregor fights Donald "Cowboy" Cerrone at the UFC 246 event on January 18 and will be looking to score a first win since 2016 after losing a boxing rules bout to Floyd Mayweather in 2017, and being submitted by Khabib Nurmagomedov in 2018.
Dublin's Straight Blast Gym owner John Kavanagh, who has gotten McGregor fighting fit for more than a decade, tweeted on Wednesday that his followers were "in for a treat" when McGregor and Cerrone come to blows.
Kavanagh said he had overseen the last heavy spar before the team leaves Ireland for the fight capital of the world. "This is the best I've seen him and I wasn't sure that was possible to do six months ago," he wrote in a tweet.
—Coach Kavanagh (@John_Kavanagh) January 1, 2020
Kavanagh's statement arrives just days after McGregor posted an Instagram selfie looking swole.
See how McGregor looks, just two weeks before he fights for the first time in 15 months, this time as a welterweight, below.
Business Insider met Kavanagh at his Straight Blast Gym late last year, not long before McGregor's comeback was made official.
He told us that he believes McGregor remains the best fighter in the world despite the heavy beating he took from Nurmagomedov in his last bout, that he's a savant in the area of martial arts, and that it is a learning experience for him, personally, whenever McGregor is training in his gym.
McGregor's fight later this month will be the first of three he contests in 2020, according to reports.
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