John Kavanagh believes Conor McGregor wants to move on from mistakes that the UFC star "regrets".
The Notorious has been in the headlines recently for allegedly smashing a fan's phone and walking away with it in Miami last month.
This followed him serving community service for throwing a trolley through the window of a bus carrying UFC fighters during a promotional event in Brooklyn in April 2018.
And his long-term coach Kavanagh has told how the Crumlin man regrets some of his actions.
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"He has made mistakes, mistakes that I absolutely don't condone. I know he regrets them, he's paid for them, he's trying to learn from them, he's trying to move on," Kavanagh told the Late Late Show.
"I hope we return to doing the positive things, the goal-setting, the work ethic, going for something that's seen as impossible, they're the qualities that I love in Conor, that I love talking about."
Kavangh also believes that McGregor could fight as soon as this summer after he was pictured with his protege last week at an amateur fight night in Dublin, their first meeting in almost six months.
The SBG Ireland supremo said: “I think there has been a resurgence in his passion and his love and I think if the right contest comes along [he will come out of retirement].
"[If it is] something that’s very interesting to him, a good challenge, something that will get the crowd going, I’d be very surprised if he doesn’t fight again. [It could be] as soon as… even the summer.
“It’s funny, when he won the second world title, as a coach it’s almost like a nightmare because he achieved everything he set out to do.
"He won the world titles, he broke every meaningful record in the UFC , he made enough money to retire a few times over.”
“Training MMA for fitness or recreation is fun, but training for professional fighting is very tough, it’s very tough on the body.
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"You’re losing all the desire to do those things because it’s either about winning titles or making money, he done those, so what was going to keep motivating him, to keep putting him through that grind?”
The pair appeared to have gone their separate ways following the former World Champs' loss at UFC 229 to Khabib Nurmagomedov and a string of high profile controversies, but Kavanagh hopes to sit down with McGregor in the next week to discuss his next move.
"He’s just back from the States; he was in Miami for the last few months training,” he explained.
"I had a small amateur show on Friday night and he showed up. I didn’t even know he was going to be there, he showed up and that was the first time I’d seen him in a while.
"There had been a couple of texts exchanged back and forth and I’m hoping to sit down next week and see what the plan is.”
“[It had been] months... He had been in Miami taking a break, but also training. Physically, I hadn’t seen him in quite a while.”
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