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This is going to be huge for Irish and British MMA fans… SBG Ireland head coach John Kavanagh has confirmed that Gunnar Nelson has been offered to fight Darren Till in the main event of the upcoming UFC London card. The UFC hits the United Kingdom capital again on March 17 and although we await official bout confirmation, this is one …

Sam Slater’s recent performance at Shinobi War 11, a show which was wonderfully subtitled ‘Winter Warfare’, has earned the young SBG Ireland amateur plaudits from former King of Pancrase, ex-UFC heavyweight champion, legendary MMA broadcaster, and the world’s premier online self-defence instructor, Bas Rutten. Slater needed just 77 seconds to account for Englishman David Jenkins, whom he dropped with a …

As one of the most highly rated middleweight prospects in Ireland, SBG’s Will Fleury headed to South Africa recently to take part in an Ultimate Fighter style reality show titled ‘The Fighter’.  As one of ten undefeated contenders from around the world, Fleury was hoping to make a serious statement in South Africa and was certain that he was the …

SBG Ireland founder and head coach John Kavanagh believes that Conor McGregor’s hands, which were arguably the best in MMA even prior to his boxing odyssey earlier in the year, will be more dangerous than ever when he makes his eventual return to the octagon. McGregor lost via tenth-round TKO to Floyd Mayweather Jr. in Las Vegas on August 26th, …

Having not fought in the Octagon since November of last year, it now looks like we will not be seeing Conor McGregor in a mixed martial arts contest until April 2018.  It had been suggested for some time that McGregor would make his UFC comeback this December, however, after the Irishman became involved in some hugely controversial scenes at a …

Coach John Kavanagh paid tribute to Danni Neilan ahead of her IMMAF World Championship final today.

SBG Ireland has made his first public comments John Kavanagh discussed the fracas Conor McGregor caused on Friday at Bellator 187.

John Kavanagh says that Conor McGregor "definitely" won't be returning to the octagon on December 30th.

Conor McGregor’s head coach John Kavanagh doesn’t foresee his charge returning to action before the year is out. McGregor’s professional boxing debut on August 26th ended in defeat, as he was stopped inside ten rounds by returning former pound for pound king Floyd Mayweather Jr. at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Though the Irishman has refused to rule out …

In mid-June, Floyd Mayweather Jr. made a pretty cringe-worthy video in which he laid out what he called the ‘Mayweather Challenge’. “The ‘Mayweather Challenge’ is when you’re really living it, when you ain’t fronting and you ain’t lying to the people, when you’re really living the real lifestyle that you say you’re living,” said the former pound for pound king …

John Kavanagh will be a busy man this week. With BAMMA taking place this weekend, SBG have a huge number of fighters taking part in the event.  Of course, the SBG Ireland head coach has another fight to focus on too, and he’s now provided updates on Conor McGregor’s training plan for his upcoming boxing bout against Floyd Mayweather. Kavanagh …

John Kavanagh drew the ire of UFC lightweight contender Tony Ferguson on Tuesday with a rather provocative tweet, although we are not convinced that ‘El Cucuy’ was the intended target of the post at all. In fact, it’s not even clear if there was a specific target. The trainer of a man who has taken on dangerous opponents at short-notice …

Floyd Mayweather Jr. faced a few indefatigable, indomitable sorts over the course of his 19-year professional boxing career. On the nights that he fought them at least, Jose Luis Castillo, Oscar De La Hoya and Marcos Maidana were not unlike Robert Patrick’s famous T-1000 character in their pursuits of the always elusive Mayweather. Though few are giving Conor McGregor a …

A consultant neurologist from the hospital in which Joao Carvalho died this time last year has claimed that Ireland is the safest country in the world to compete in mixed martial arts.  A year on from the tragic death of the Portuguese MMA fighter, who died as a result of blunt force trauma to the head after fighting Charlie Ward of …

In the build up to any Conor McGregor fight you can guarantee the brazen Irishman will inflict his opponent with a substantial amount of verbal abuse in order to disrupt their mental preparation. Floyd Mayweather is no stranger to McGregor’s oral jibes but now John Kavanagh has taken a page from his prized pupil’s playbook. During a recent tour of …

We have heard time and again about how determined Conor McGregor was to gain a measure of revenge over Nate Diaz in the aftermath of his loss to the Stockton savage last March. As UFC president Dana White tells it, he and then UFC CEO Lorenzo Fertitta visited McGregor’s rented house in Las Vegas shortly after the Irishman had tapped …

During an interview with SportsCenter last year, conducted shortly after talk of a boxing match between he and Floyd Mayweather Jr. first began in the media, Conor McGregor used a rather interesting analogy to describe the difference between training for an MMA bout and training for a boxing match. “I’m in the game of spinning plates,” said the philosophical UFC …

Many people who opened their Twitter feeds this morning will have taken a very sudden, sharp and deep breath when they saw one particular tweet from SBG Ireland head coach John Kavanagh. The date probably dawned on most of those people shortly thereafter. Today is the 1st of April, also known as April Fool’s Day, and Kavanagh, who likes to …