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All eyes are on Conor McGregor's camp for his upcoming mega-fight with Floyd Mayweather slated for August 26th in Las Vegas.

It was revealed recently by various sources just who McGregor has brought in to help him prepare for Mayweather. Three of the boxers have been named as Tiarnan Bradley, Dashon Johnson and Jay Byrne.

20-year-old Tiernan Bradley is a very experienced amateur boxer with over 100 bouts under his belt. His accomplishments include being the 2015 Commonwealth Youth Games silver medalist.

Dashon Johnson has experience in MMA and Boxing. The 29-year-old is a UFC vet with 9-2 record in MMA and he has 47 professional boxing bouts with a 22-21-3 record. In the past Johnson was part of Manny Pacquiao’s camp as he prepared for Mayweather.

Local Dublin fighter Jay Byrne made his professional debut last year as has compiled a record of 5-2 in boxing so far.

Please read this article from Bloody Elbow to gain more of an insight into the three above mentioned fighters.

Decky Dalton talks moving back to FAI, his last fight with Jonathan Brookins, facing Mick Brennan at BAMMA 30 and more.

Also please check out our interview with Daniel Olejniczak as he talks about his various run-ins with SBG's Richard Kiely ahead of BAMMA 30.

CRC 5 goes down this Sunday from the Airside Arena in Swords and it brings its usual night of K1, Muay Thai, MMA and Grappling.

The card features names like UFC vet Ais Daly, JMS, Andreas Binder, Adam Nowak, Kieran Davern and many more.

Here is the fight card:

Main Event 78kg Pro K-1 Title Fight
John Michael Sheil (SBG Tallaght) vs. Damian Darker (Elite Martial Arts)

85kg Pro Grappling Super Fight EBI rules
Kieran Davern (SBG Tullamore) vs. Lucas Cikotas (Ferocity Team)

70kg Pro K-1 4 Man Tournament -Final Fight
Winner Semi Final 1 vs. Winner Semi Final 2

61kg Pro Grappling Super Fight EBI rules
Aisling Daly (SBG) vs. Priscila Batista (Fantom Team)

70kg Pro K-1 4 Man Turnament -Semi Finals
Emmanuel Aliphon (Chaiyo Gym) vs. Jack Kelly (Jai Sua)
Eoin McCarthy (Siam Warriors) vs. Szymon Kozak (Fantom)

60kg B-Class Muay Thai Fight 5x2min
Darren Mcfall (Warriors) vs. Sebastian Czugaj (Fantom)

Amateur K-1 Title Fights
66kg: Solomon Simon (Compound) vs Alex Kravtsov (Husaria)
60kg: Aaron Clarke (Naas KB) Vs Erik Hehir (Courage)

70kg Amateur MMA Title
Kenny Mokhonoana (C-Mac) vs. Adam Nowak (Arena)

C-Class Muay Thai Fights
75kg: David Ola (Compound) vs. Martin McDonnell (Fantom)
49kg: Amy Louise Byrne (309 Phuang) vs. Kattaya Sahban (Fantom)

Amateur K-1 Fights
80kg: Andreas Binder (Shaolin) vs. Dawid Wiśnios (Fantom)
63kg: Padraig Cuskelly (Motonari)) vs. George Hardy (Champion)
62kg: Sean Bergin (Killkeny CA) vs. Mikey McCoy (Fantom)
76kg: Danny Cullen (Champion) vs. James Carroll (Courage)
68kg: Sebastian Szuster (Knights Templar) vs. Paweł Polityło (Fantom)
75kg: Killian Quinn (Motonari) vs. Viktor Sorokins (Relentless MT)
70kg: Lee Tellin (Phoenix CA) vs. Michał Wolski (Fantom)
63kg: Sean Doyle (Warriors) vs. Krystian Feist (Ferocity)
78kg: Lukasz Szot (Louth MT) vs. Radek Antosik (Fantom)
70kg: Vladis Bizinskas (Skuse MT) vs. Jamie Murphy (Dundalk MA)
69kg: Niall McArdle (Louth MT) vs. Lorenzo Mihai (Fantom)
61kg: Ross Lynch (Phoenix CA) vs. Danny McGowan (SBG Swords)
57kg: Ivan Tishin (Skuse MT) vs. Daniel Cleary (Relentless)

Conor McGregor's coach John Kavanagh speaks to Ariel Helwani on The MMA Hour about McGregor vs. Floyd Mayweather, James Gallagher win at Bellator NYC, and much more.

Bellator champ Patricio 'Pitbull' Freire (26-4) must have been watching Bellator NYC very closely over the weekend as he tweeted James Gallagher (7-0) following his impressive win over Chinzo Machida.

Post-fight Gallagher stated he wanted his picture on the Bellator champions wall and thus replacing Freire. The Brazilian tweeted that he would fight Gallagher at Croke Parke and that he should bring McGregor along too. 

Here is the tweet along with Gallagher's response:

We spoke with IFS's Daniel Olejniczak (1-0-1) ahead of his fight with SBG's Richard Kiely (1-0) set to take place at BAMMA 30 in the 3Arena in Dublin on July 7th.

It has been quite the build-up to this fight with a couple of run-ins between the pair over the past while. Just an extra element in what should be an excellent fight between two of Irish MMA's most promising welterweights.

We are two weeks away from the massive Capital 1 Muay Thai and K1 Kickboxing set to take place at the Citywest Convention Centre in Dublin on July 8th.

There are limited tickets still available from fighters and their gyms.

Main Event - World Title MTGP A-Class 5x3 61.5kgs
Ognjen Topic (New Jersey) vs. Paul Barber (KK)

Co-Main - Dublin's Best A-Class Thai 5x3 61.5kgs
Stephen Meleady (Bad Company) vs. Craig Coakley (Lionheart)

A-Class Irish Superwelter ISKA Muay Thai Title 70kg
Aaron Browne (Lionheart) vs. Scotty John (Origins)

Full Thai Rules International 3x3 Ire V Poland
Colly Murphy (Langka) vs. Mateusz Duczmal (Bad Company)

Full Thai Rules International 3x3 Ire V France
Shane McConnell (WMT) vs. Djony Ferandes (Double KK)

Full Thai rules 3x3 95kgs
Tommy Maher (Chaiyo) vs. Daragh Kennedy (Koroko)

Full Thai Rules 3x3 70kgs
Dommie Kelly (Spartan) vs. Mo Khale (Waterford)

PRO K1KB 3x3 75kgs Irish ISKA Middleweight title
Wayne Grant (Fantom) vs. Eamon Deane (Mayhem)

PRO K1KB 3x3
78kgs Dawid Blaszke (NassKB) vs. Aidan Brooks (Colosseum Gladiators)
65kgs David Ryan (Shannon KB) vs. Mikey Rizzo (Lionheart)
86kgs Joey Cleary (Doyle KB) vs. Chris Meaney (Newry)
67kgs Damien O'Hea (Samson) vs. Eric McCormack
78kgs Dylan Meagher (Courage) vs. Jay Doyle (Champion)

C Class Thai 3x3
Charlie Kelly (Jai Sua) vs. Barry O'Connor (Spartan)
Alan McCormack (Origins) vs. Niall McGreevy (Langka)
Istvan Stefan Korodi (Lionheart) vs. Stephen O'Neill
Gergo Bodis (Horais) vs. Robby Drought (Siam Warriors)

Preliminary Fight Card

C Class Thai 3x2
Niall Cooke (Cork Thai) vs. Diarmuid Dunne (Hammerhead)
Pierce Corkery (Cork Thai) vs. Josh Moules (Arklow)
Kieran Stapleton (WMT) vs. Joe O'Connor (Jai Sua)
Senan Coakley (Lionheart) vs. Ryan Cremin (Cobra)

Amateur K1
Jordan Daniels (Coopers) vs. Ion Catarau (Nass KB)
Peter Deane (Coopers) vs. Ian Crotty (Courage)
Ronan Kelly (Doyle KB) vs. Conor Butler (SBG)
Glen Sheehan (Strike) vs. Lee Walch (Larrys KB)

James Gallagher speaks to the media at Bellator NYC about his submission win over Chinzo Machida, what's next for his MMA career, being compared to Conor McGregor, and much more.

If you missed it last night here is the full fight between James Gallagher vs. Chinzo Machida at Bellator 180 in Madison Square Garden.

If you don't like the quality following video please click here to go to the official Bellator stream of the fight and go to 48.00.