McGregor's coach: Plan is to fight Mayweather, take UFC bout in December

Conor McGregor has unfinished business in the Octagon and his coach knows it.

Head trainer and McGregor confidante John Kavanagh doesn't think we've seen the last of "The Notorious" in the UFC even as he's poised to make history when he fights Floyd Mayweather on Aug. 26 in a boxing match that is expected to shatter pay-per-view records. Kavanagh recently wrote a post for The42 in which he predicted that McGregor would return to MMA, though he couldn't make any guarantees about the lightweight champion's future.

"Many of the questions I've been receiving over the past week have focused on when Conor will fight in the UFC again," Kavanagh wrote. "My expectation is that it will happen this year, although it's always difficult to predict what Conor is going to do next.

"If he goes in there and knocks out Mayweather in the first round, there will probably be talk of rematches and stuff like that. But the tentative plan, as I see it, is certainly for a fight in the UFC in December. But in the meantime we're completely focused on boxing and Floyd Mayweather."

McGregor is the lineal champion in two divisions, having knocked out Eddie Alvarez for the lightweight belt at UFC 205 last November, 11 months after doing the same to Jose Aldo for the featherweight title. His next title defense will be his first as he has repeatedly passed on defending his championships in favor of challenges that he and his camp deemed to be more intriguing and profitable.

- With h/t to Bloody Elbow