Learning from the death of Joao Carvalho

The terrible death of Joao Carvalho last week after an MMA event in Dublin dominated many sports conversations in recent days. 

There was no shortage of opinions available on the sport, for and against, in those conversations, but some of the arguments I heard and read were ludicrous, to be kind about it.

Take the ‘take this sport seriously or it’ll be driven underground’ argument. This thesis holds no water.