Come fight night, it will have been 15 months since McGregor last set foot inside the cage – his last outing being his UFC 229 loss to Khabib Nurmagomedov.
Ireland’s first UFC champion is hoping to fight at least three times in 2020 and is targeting the winner of Nurmagomedov’s lightweight title defence against Tony Ferguson – which will headline UFC 249 on April 18 – for his final outing of the year.
And after seeing McGregor compete only twice in mixed martial arts in the last 37 months, Kavanagh is excited by the prospect of his most famous student returning to his active ways.
“He’s very pumped up,” Kavanagh said of McGregor. “I like how he’s talking about it being a season.
source: express.co.uk