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Published 08:51 14 Jan 2020 GMT
Updated 08:59 14 Jan 2020 GMT
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"I was drinking all bleeding fight week the last time. I was on the Conan O'Brien show [drinking]."
Asked if he was drinking in the build-up to that Nurmagomedov fight, the Dubliner responded, "Yeah... Not really [that common in my career]. Not really. Not to that extent, no. Not to that extent." He continued:
"Don't know [why]. I just had this venom in me or something. I don't know why. I had people holed up in a hotel, from that part of the world [Russia], and I would ring and arrange a fight. So they come from the hotel down to the gym and have a full-blown fight; no head guard. I'd win. You know, we'd have a war, and I'd win, and I'd knock the guy out. And then I'd go off and celebrate, and then I'd come back in three days."In another Helwani interview, McGregor's head coach John Kavanagh described his lapses in behaviour and focus, and disappearing acts, as "heartbreaking". 15 months on from that submission loss to Nurmagomedov, McGregor insists he has never felt better and that his focus is crystal clear. He wants to fight at least three times in 2020 and could even have four fights if there is a handy victory, or two, along the way.
"I'm in a great spot now," he says, "and that's it. And I've put... I've made mistakes. And, you know, I've been man enough to admit them and correct them. And that's what I've done."He has 'made a promise to my team [and] my fans that I would stay 100% fully focused' but he says he will enjoy a drink of his own whiskey, Proper 12, after the fight has concluded. The next time fight fans may catch glimpse of McGregor drinking, he comments, will be at his after-fight party in Las Vegas. He will party, he says, take a rest day and then return to the gym next Monday. Ready to go again.
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