Conor McGregor enjoyed a drink with his boxing coach Phil Sutcliffe in recent days.
The Notorious uploaded a photo to his Instagram story of the pair in his Black Forge Inn pub in Dublin.
They both posed with clenched fists in front of a glass of McGregor's Proper 12 Whiskey and a pint of his Forged Stout.
Sutcliffe trained McGregor at Crumlin Boxing Club when the UFC star was a youngster and was brought into the former two-weight champion's coaching setup for his 2020 fight with Donald Cerrone in Las Vegas.
Sutcliffe was also in McGregor's corner for his rematch with Dustin Poirier at the start of this year, but was absent for his trilogy fight with the American in July.
McGregor had hoped that a win over Poirier in January would lead to a boxing bout with Manny Pacquiao and heavily focused on boxing in his preperation for the Abu Dhabi fight.
But he decided to focus more on mixed martial arts for the trilogy bout, leaving Sutcliffe out of his coaching team.
Explaining the decision prior to the bout, McGregor said: "The corner is what it is, it is what it has always been, the extra addition will be the FAST coach who does the clock for me in sparring so it'll be all familiar to sparring.
"The last camp was 75 per cent boxing, even 80 per cent preparation for Manny Pacquiaio.
"I had a whole team of people who were specifically for Manny as far as body shape and all that craic.
"I like different areas but I've just focused on mixed martial arts; I've put in some great work with all my coaches over the years but I've dialled it in to the mixed martial arts aspect.
"I will go through the elements, there are a lot of benefits to that stance also so I will not shut it out fully but I will mix it up for sure. There's no point in not doing that, especially the way the last one went."
But McGregor claimed there had been a lot of benefits from a boxing heavy camp.
He added: "I got a lot of benefits from it, my punches were crisp. [But] if you're doing multiple spars and some of those heavy spars are boxing spars, your MMA spars are not going to be... it was hard to fit them both in at the same time."
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