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Reigning UFC featherweight champion the “Notorious” Conor McGregor experienced a tragic moment in his hometown of Dublin, Ireland a few months back. McGregor was cage side for the the Total Extreme Fighting (TEF) championship event at the National Boxing Stadium. At this very event, Charlie Ward, a teammate of McGregor’s at Ireland’s Straight Blast Gym, scored a technical knockout victory over Portuguese competitor Joao Carvalho. In shocking and devastating nature, Carvalho passed away following the loss.

Given that Ward is a teammate of the 145-pound champion, McGregor seems to feel somewhat responsible for the death of Carvalho. Check out what McGregor recently said to the Irish Mirror:

“It’s f*cked up. I wasn’t just watching that fight. I helped train a guy to kill someone, and then someone wound up dying. This is a f*cking dangerous game. People call it a sport, but it’s fighting. I’m just making sure it ain’t me. And that’s f*cked up.”

While the situation is horrific to say the least, it obviously wasn’t McGregor’s fault, as the unfortunate circumstances simply stemmed from the dangerous nature of the beast that is mixed martial arts. The “Notorious” one, who was clearly effected by the passing of Carvalho, will compete for the first time since the event later this month, taking on Nate Diaz in a highly-anticipated rematch at August 20’s UFC 202 from Las Vegas, Nevada.

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UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor seems to have mended some recently burned bridges with his bosses. After taking a stance against the UFC regarding his media obligations for the rematch with Nate Diaz, the Irish star was dropped from UFC 200 on July 9 and engaged in a ‘publicized civil war’ with his employers It was a war he’d eventually end up coming out of relatively unscathed, although his removal from the milestone pay-per-view card remained official.

The once consummate company man McGregor had attempted to throw a spanner in the works of the organization that helped him become a multi millionaire. Thus is the struggle between a man’s worth and the amount of money his bosses are willing to pay. Whether or not the rumours of a boxing match with Floyd Mayweather were just a media stunt is unclear, but it remains a highly unlikely fight in reality.

His most recent media appearance, a sit down with ESPN, saw McGregor discuss openly about his problems with the UFC, and it sounds as though they are now squared away. From their website is an interesting conversation that was not included in the initial release of the interview, where McGregor talks far more about the effects of Joao Carvalho’s death and the harassment from the media in he time since.

Carvalho was a Portugese fighter who, while taking on one of McGregor’s team mate’s in Dublin, suffered fatal injury in the cage. He died after two days in a local hospital. He was just 28 years of age. The tragic circumstances reverberated around the MMA community worldwide, but the host of Joao’s final fight perhaps bore the biggest brunt. The Irish MMA scene went from a buzz to a solemn and overcast sport overnight, and once again McGregor was at the forefront.

‘The Notorious’ was filmed cheering his team mate to victory on that fateful night, and it led to the obvious media coverage we’ve come to expect these days. Headlines from the maistream papers pretty much read ‘McGregor cheers as team mate kills a man.’ It turns out that terrible moment in MMA history impacted on the upcoming events, that would once again turn the mixed martial arts world on it’s head…

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