ABU DHABI – Conor McGregor sides with his coach, John Kavanagh, that any concerns about his endurance going into UFC 257 are overblown, and he hopes Dustin Poirier can push him to the point of proving it. Since his loss to Nate Diaz at UFC 196 in March 2016, there’s been a narrative around McGregor that he hits a wall if fights go long enough. Poirier and his team have come out ahead of fight night with the thinking the Irishman has a “weakness in conditioning,” but Kavanagh said Thursday that’s “false hope.” McGregor doubled down on that, and though he admitted he had a flaw in what was his first octagon loss to Diaz nearly five years ago, he said that it’s still held against him is a mistake

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