LAS VEGAS – Perhaps the surest way to pipe down the raging Irish is to bring in a movement coach and perform new age undulations on stage. Conor McGregor did on Thursday at the UFC 194 open workouts at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. McGregor’s movement coach Ido Portal accompanied him on stage, and together they performed tantric bear crawls to a day-drinking crowd, all of them ready to sing their hero into flight.
Where was his coach John Kavanagh? Somewhere off stage, away from the…what, like, was it an infomercial? There was some mitt-work to be found in the middle between him and Owen Roddy, but for the most part it was one bearded dude (Portal) showing another bearded dude (McGregor) how to change aural colors through hip movement.