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Straight Blast Gym head coach John Kavanagh. Gary Carr/INPHO

Kavanagh says McGregor's impending announcement is 'only positive'

The UFC featherweight champion has said he has something significant to reveal after he faces Eddie Alvarez.

CONOR McGREGORโ€™S FANS should only expect good news when the UFC featherweight champion makes an announcement after his next bout.

Thatโ€™s according to John Kavanagh, McGregorโ€™s head coach at Straight Blast Gym in Dublin.

McGregor will aim to add the UFC lightweight title to his CV when he takes on defending champion Eddie Alvarez in the main event at UFC 205 at Madison Square Garden in New York on Saturday week [12 November].

After the fight was announced at the end of September, UFC president Dana White revealed that McGregor has โ€œsomething completely out of left fieldโ€ to announce once his clash with Alvarez is out of the way. McGregor later added that his announcement is โ€œgoing to be bigโ€.

Speculation over the nature of what McGregor might reveal has ranged from plans to take a break from the sport to the possibility of retirement. However, in a video interview with The42, Kavanagh insisted that the fighterโ€™s fans shouldnโ€™t be concerned:

Iโ€™ve heard him say a few different things and theyโ€™re all positive. Whatever way he goes with this, itโ€™s only positive.

โ€œI donโ€™t know whatโ€™s going to happen. Look at the last fight. He can say, โ€˜Let the divisions mature and in six monthsโ€™ time Iโ€™ll see what itโ€™s likeโ€™ โ€” and then 24 hours later heโ€™s like, โ€˜Okay, letโ€™s do a work outโ€™.

โ€œConor has such a hyperactive mind and a hyperactive body, youโ€™d never know whatโ€™s going to happen with him. But for sure itโ€™s a positive announcement. I know people are going to enjoy what he has to say.โ€

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    Jan 5th 2017, 7:29 AM

    Any chance on letting us know how much theyโ€™re getting paid?

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    Jan 5th 2017, 4:07 PM

    Why do t you post up your own annual salary so as well?

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    Jan 5th 2017, 4:15 PM

    Gary I pay tax on my salary which is more than I can say for these managers who wink wink nod โ€œdonโ€™t get paid a salary apparently

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    Jan 5th 2017, 7:06 PM

    Itโ€™s hardly a salary, besides paying for better players/managers has a always been and always will be in all amateur sports in Ireland.

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    Jan 6th 2017, 3:30 AM

    @lad ..just cos itโ€™s always happened doesnโ€™t make it right

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    Jan 5th 2017, 2:03 PM

    Big year for limerick footballers and Hurlers

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