.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... Sometime – not today, not tomorrow, not the day after, but sometime – professional combat sports events will return to New Mexico. Members of the New Mexico Athletic Commission, the state board that regulates combat sports, want to help make that happen. But, with the COVID-19 pandemic still alive and accompanying protocols still in place, the question is how. And when. ................................................................ “We need to start getting ready for when we do start having events,” chairman Joe Chavez said at Tuesday’s NMAC meeting, held via Cisco WebEx. Compliance with public health orders, Chavez said, is a given. “But we’re gonna have to have our own kind of rules because of COVID for the fighters and our officials and the people participating. … We’re probably not going to be doing any fights within the next 60 days, but I want to start getting ready for what we’re going to require of them.”