Artem Lobov has dismissed speculation that Conor McGregor is no longer part of Straight Blast Gym.
McGregor has been spending a lot of time in America recently and has trained in various Stateside gyms.
And this - coupled with John Kavanagh saying after McGregor's defeat to Khabib that he would need "convincing" to corner for the UFC star again - fuelled rumours that McGregor was no longer part of the SBG team.
But SBG team member Lobov, who is also a friend of McGregor, has emphatically put the record straight.
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Lobov told BJPENN.COM: "No, Conor is still with us, we are all still a part of SBG."
He added: "The thing is that many of the SBG fighters that have kind of retired now or whatever, they have opened their own SBG gyms.
"So we all will often train not only at the main SBG but other SBG gyms. For example, Peter Queally opened SBG Naas and that’s a great facility, so Conor and many of us would often train there.
"There’s SBG D24 with Paddy Holohan; we’ve got many SBGs now so as a result it may seem sometimes that we’re not all there at SBG HQ, but we still are all a part of SBG."
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