Conor McGregor ’s head coach, John Kavanagh, thinks an ankle injury he says the fighter sustained in training camp may have contributed to the leg break that ended the UFC 264 headliner. According to Kavanagh, former two-division UFC champion McGregor (22-6 MMA, 10-4 UFC) came into the fight with some pre-existing issues in the same leg that was snapped in his first-round TKO loss to Dustin Poirier (28-6 MMA, 20-5 UFC) in Saturday’s trilogy bout at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Kavanagh said McGregor visited a doctor in California in the weeks prior to UFC 264, and though nothing serious was discovered, he theorized there could be connection during an Instagram Q&A with Laura Sanko for Wimp 2 Warrior. “A little bit of that ankle injury had been aggravated during camp,” Kavanagh said. “We got a scan on it. Did that have a small part to play in weakening it
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