MMA Ireland: Tragic death of Joao Carvalho was the worst kind of wake-up call

The shocking death of 28-year-old Portuguese MMA fighter Joao Carvalho last Monday following a bout in Dublin has thrown Ireland’s lack of regulation of mixed martial arts firmly into the spotlight, writes Joe Callaghan

From nothing to something to everything.

This is the six-word summation provided by Conor McGregor in the minutes after his night of nights last December. He had become an undisputed world champion of the Ultimate Fighting Championship in a chaotic cauldron of noise, the MGM Grand in Las Vegas the scene of a mass Irish invasion of the desert.