John Kavanagh believes a prior injury could have played a role in Conor McGregor’s first-round stoppage defeat to Dustin Poirier at UFC 264.
Kavanagh revealed that McGregor had a pre-existing ankle injury heading into the trilogy and that it could have been a factor in the Irishman’s gruesome leg break on Saturday night.
“A little bit of that ankle injury had been aggravated during camp,” Kavanagh told Laura Senko during a recent Instagram Q&A (h/t MMA Junkie). “We got a scan on it. Did that have a small part to play in weakening it? I don’t know.