Combat community, lawyer want provincial commission after MMA death [Video]

The local combat sports community is calling on the province to make changes after an MMA fight on Enoch Cree Nation turned fatal last weekend.

They say a provincial commission is needed to make fights safer and that it should come quickly.

After an extensive career in the ring and octagon, Ryan Ford is now a coach at Wolfhouse. He takes his students through months of training before they ever see a serious fight.

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“You play basketball, you play hockey, you play football,” Ford said. “You don’t play fighting, right?”

The local combat sports community has been rocked by the death of 33-year-old Trokon Dourash.

The amateur fighter had to be helped out of the cage during a charity event on Enoch Cree Nation last weekend.

It was billed as a beginners event offering eight weeks of free training for fighters.

Ford claims there were safety lapses at the event put on by U.K-based Ultra …