Fighters don’t get paid by the minute. It could be said that the best-case scenario for an MMA athlete would be one strike thrown, one strike landed, no strikes absorbed, and a knockout victory. Get in, get out, get paid.
By that metric, Conor McGregor’s win over Jose Aldo at UFC 194 was an absolutely perfect scenario. But to hear McGregor’s coach, John Kavanagh, tell it, he was at least just a little bit disappointed in how that clash played out for all involved.
“I’m sure I spoke about it a lot at the time, but going back, I was a massive WEC fan,” Kavanagh said on The MMA Hour (transcript via MMA Fighting).