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Conor McGregor looks JACKED with UFC star ‘training like Rocky’ ahead of comeback next year following horror leg injury
CONOR MCGREGOR is 'training like Rocky' ahead of his return next year as he continues to recover from his horror leg injury.
The Irishman has posted a series of pictures recently that revealed him with a jacked physique.
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McGregor has been hitting the weights recently as he continues to recover from the broken tibia he sustained in July.
He has only just started hitting the pads again after having surgery and instead focussed on increasing his strength.
McGregor is now so big his head trainer John Kavanagh recently joked he could fight at middleweight, with the pair soon to reunite again.
And Dana White provided an update on his biggest ever superstar - and likened his comeback to Sylvester Stallone's iconic Rocky Balboa character.
White said on : “He obviously still has the desire to compete.
“You don’t ever hear Conor going, ‘You know what, man? I just don’t have the desire for this anymore.’ You now what I mean?
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"Yes, he’s obviously very rich, and he’s training like Rocky in Rocky III.
"But he still has the desire to compete and the desire to fight, and we’ll see what happens.”
McGregor, 33, first returned in January and was knocked out in a rematch with Dustin Porier, 32, who he had beaten in 2014.
But in the trilogy bout seven months later, he suffered further misery after breaking his tibia seconds before the end of round one.
Having had successful surgery soon after, McGregor is eyeing a return next year and will be able to spar in just five months time.
UFC president White revealed: “He’s chomping at the bit to get back in there and compete again.
“It’s going to be a while before he can put some torque on that leg. April, for him to start training again in April is probably about right.”
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