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Coach Says UFC ‘Very Shortsighted in Stripping McGregor of Featherweight Crown
- Updated: November 29, 2016
On Nov. 12, Conor McGregor become the first simultaneous two-division champion in UFC history when he defeated Eddie Alvarez at Madison Square Garden to capture lightweight gold. Two weeks later, the 155-pound belt officially became the only UFC championship hardware in McGregor’s possession.McGregor coach John Kavanagh was not thrilled with the way the UFC went about stripping his fighter of the featherweight crown, which McGregor claimed with a 13-second knockout of Jose Aldo at UFC 194 last December. “For me personally, I was very disappointed with how they went about doing it,” Kavanagh said on the Red FM breakfast show (transcription via Severe MMA). “It was a very messy set of circumstances which led to doing it. They lost a main event [at UFC 206] and then they haphazardly threw together a …
