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On August 26, the reigning UFC lightweight champion will lock with Floyd Mayweather in a multi-million-pound boxing match, which is currently the talk of the combat sports world.

Mayweather vs. McGregor, a contest which was first mooted in May 2016, will take place at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.

McGregor, 28, will enter the bout with zero professional boxing fights to his name - a fact which has led many to rule out his chances of coming out the ‘Billion Dollar Fight’ contest victorious.

Many expected ‘The Notorious’ to enlist the help of a top boxing coach for his professional debut, which is expected to earn him upwards of £80m.

However, Ireland's first UFC belt holder has decided against bringing in coach dedicated to sharpening his boxing skills and has opted to with the team that turned him one of the most feared strikers in MMA.

"It’s just me and Owen. We’re the only trainers involved,” McGregor’s head coach John Kavanagh told The 42ie.

“You know, we thought about getting a boxing trainer involved, but we don’t have five years to prepare for this, we had – I don’t know – 11, 12 weeks.

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"So if we brought someone else in, there’s the whole thing of trying to fit them into the way we do things.

“And at this stage, Conor’s not learning how to jab. He knows how to throw a jab.

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“We kicked the idea around, and we decided, ‘You know what? We’ve gotten this far together, we seem to have a formula that works, let’s keep going with what we have.’”

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