Conor McGregor sent fans into raptures after he posed for a photo with Stephen 'Wonderboy' Thompson.
The Notorious is currently in America filming the latest season of The Ultimate Fighter alongside future opponent Michael Chandler.
Karate expert 'Wonderboy' popped into the UFC Performance Institute Apex and took a snap alongside the Dubliner.
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McGregor uploaded the photo to his 45 million followers. Plenty reacted in the same way, and hoped that the picture was evidence that McGregor was going back to his Karate style.
"Motivated Karate Conor is back confirmed," said one person.
" If karate Conor is back it's over," said another.
Another wrote, " PLZ GO BACK TO THE KARATE STANCE."
And one more said, "Does this hint a switch back to your original karate-inspired fighting stance? Proved to work better in MMA-striking compared to the boxing-stance i.m.o!"
When McGregor first burst onto the scene, he deployed a Karate style in many of his early fights. He achieved tremendous success with this style, capturing the UFC title at both Featherweight and Lightweight.
In latter years, The Notorious has veered away from this style and has employed a more traditional boxing stance to varying degrees of success.
McGregor will make his return to the cage against Chandler later this year in what will be his first bout since he broke his leg against Dustin Poirier at UFC 264.
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