Conor McGregor’s head coach was Ariel Helwani’s guest on the MMA Hour and talked about movement coach Ido Portal, UFC Embedded and fickle MMA fans.
“Apparently I’m a genius now that (bringing in Ido Portal) was my idea,” Kavanagh said with a laugh. “But if he’d have lost, I’d have gotten poor Ronda Rousey’s coach’s treatment. I would have been the worst human being on the planet. That’s MMA fans. They’re a fickle bunch.
“For the last seven days or 10 days, it was really just about weight management,” Kavanagh said. “We brought in Ido and it was a complete change — the yin and the yang, if you want to say, of martial arts. We went to the soft for the last week or so, because the hardware had been approved at this stage and the software just had to be maintained. It was just about keeping the body injury free, sore free.”