Sean Sheehan 
Following the tragic death of Joao Carvalho in Dublin last week there have been many calls for MMA to be regulated and recognised by the government as a sport in Ireland.
Today, speaking to Luke Thomas of MMAFighting.com, UFC CEO Lorenzo Fertitta came out in support of regulating the sport in Ireland and promised to help the efforts.
“That has always been our mantra. We run towards regulation.” Fertitta said.
“We would love to be able to sit down to work with the authorities in Ireland and the UK so that, not just our events, but all the events are properly regulated.”
“I don’t know exactly what happened in that event, everybody is still trying to figure that out but that’s the reason we want regulation, so there are standards, so it’s the same everywhere and we would certainly think that that would be a good idea.”
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Hat tip to MMA Fighting where you can check out the full interview here.
