John Kavanaugh says he'd need to be convinced to work with Mcgregor again.

Interesting development and a bit out of left field. I'm not sure what to infer from this.

John Kavanagh claims that Conor McGregor would have to convince him to help “The Notorious” to prepare for another fight.

In an interview with Paul Kimmage for the Sunday Independent, Kavanagh stated that he would need a good reason to lead him into battle again.

“Well, he would certainly have to convince me to go again,” said Kavanagh.

“I love the whole journey we’ve had but I’d need a good ‘why’,” he continued. “It might be [Nate] Diaz again because he promised that fight. It might be a rematch with Khabib. But if it was just: ‘Well, they want me to fight that guy’ I think I’d say, ‘I wish you the best.’”

Kavanagh cited McGregor’s young family and the punch that knocked him down during his last outing as reasons he was reluctant for the Irishman to fight again.

“He has a wife and two kids now and I don’t want him taking more hits than he needs to. Khabib hit him with a punch in that fight that he has never been hit with in his career. And even Superman slows down at some stage,” Kavanagh said.

McGregor lost to Nurmagomedov at UFC 229 via fourth-round submission this past October.

Well I honestly don't think Mcgregor would have achieved what he was able to without Kavanaugh. He is the guy who developed him into the striker he is (along with Roddy) and I do think he's a very good coach. Just look at Artem Lobov. I'm fairly confident without John he'd have never even won a fight in the UFC. He's really not physically gifted at all and he's given much more talented people much more difficult fights than he has any business doling out.

After the Nurmy fight Conor had a bunch of excuses as to why he lost, saying that he listened to 'other' people when he should have listened to himself....hard to take that in good humor when you're his head coach. And he's wrong. If had fought aggressively it would have gone worse for him, he'd have spent 4 minutes of every round locked up. I'm not sure what he can do to win that one. It's just a bad matchup for him, same way that Usman is a bad match for colby. Mcgregor may very well KO Ferguson who I believe will beat Khabib. Styles make fights.

It does read like they have had a falling out. Mcgregor might benefit from a different camp, but I'm not sure where he'd fit best. I reckon Hume might be a good fit.

* Edited at 12.14.2018, 8:29 AM ET *

@Free I really don't hate Mcgregor. I do think he's a wankstain but I think that about lots of fighters, and I'll still watch them. I certainly don't think he's as a good as he's cracked up to be. 2-2 from his last 4 and really the khabib fight wasn't close at all. Holloway is much more impressive to me. I also agree that he shouldn't retire. He got floored once in the khabib fight but so what? It's fighting, it happens.He's still a young man with lots of fights left in him and the skills to win them. It's not a rousey situation.