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Fancy a behind-the-scenes look at the SBG gym? Step right this way

Head coach John Kavanagh takes us inside the gym where Conor McGregor hones his craft.

MIXED MARTIAL ARTS has grown massively in Ireland in the last couple of years, and the Straight Blast Gym in Dublin has been at the forefront.

Home to half of the eight Irish fighters currently signed to the UFC, SBG has produced the likes of Conor McGregor, Aisling Daly, Cathal Pendred and Paddy Holohan.

Headed up by leading coach John Kavanagh, SBG cemented its place as Ireland’s top gym when it relocated to a brand new facility in the Concorde Industrial Estate on the Naas Road last year.

John Kavanagh will guide McGregor, Pendred and Holohan into their UFC Boston bouts this Sunday night, but before he jetted off to the US, we caught up with Kavanagh for a tour of SBG’s outstanding new Dublin headquarters.

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