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Published 21:26 22 May 2016 BST
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The media storm around the death is something that greatly affected McGregor. In an interview with ESPN he spoke about the aftermath.
“I had fucking journalists knocking down my mother’s door, you know what I mean?” he said.
“That’s not what I signed up to do — have people knocking on my mother’s door, talking about a kid dying. It’s not nice to see a kid die like that. It does something to you. And there’s been show after show canceled in Ireland since that. It’s fucked up to be a part of it, and I didn’t want to bring it back up and put it more on a public scale”.
McGregor continued to suggest Carvalho’s death contributed to his reluctance to continue with UFC.
“After all that, I did not want to be put in front of a camera and made to dance. I just wasn’t feeling it” he said.
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