Diego Sanchez Breaks it all Down for Ariel

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ECC170

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if he beats Chiesa I'll faint.. He's def worth putting 10 bucks on at those odds
 

jason73

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diego comes to bang. win or lose he throws down.he is never in a boring fight .he is the last of the mohicans .there isnt a lot of guys who fight like that anymore.all that being said he is delusional about ever getting a title shot and he will be lucky to get a new contract with the ufc.he got 99k/99k to fight mickey gall last time so you know the ufc wants to cut that payroll. i would expect diego to be fighting in bareknuckle or bellator by this time next year win or lose tomorrow night
 

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diego comes to bang. win or lose he throws down.he is never in a boring fight .he is the last of the mohicans .there isnt a lot of guys who fight like that anymore.all that being said he is delusional about ever getting a title shot and he will be lucky to get a new contract with the ufc.he got 99k/99k to fight mickey gall last time so you know the ufc wants to cut that payroll. i would expect diego to be fighting in bareknuckle or bellator by this time next year win or lose tomorrow night
Love Diego and will always root for anyone fighting that big ass crybaby Michael "Whiny" Chiesa...
 

Onetrickpony

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diego comes to bang. win or lose he throws down.he is never in a boring fight .he is the last of the mohicans .there isnt a lot of guys who fight like that anymore.all that being said he is delusional about ever getting a title shot and he will be lucky to get a new contract with the ufc.he got 99k/99k to fight mickey gall last time so you know the ufc wants to cut that payroll. i would expect diego to be fighting in bareknuckle or bellator by this time next year win or lose tomorrow night
Diego bare knuckle would be fucking insanity.
 

D241

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I actually favor Diego in this match up. Diego's jiu jitsu is high level and I'd be shocked, not surprised, shocked, if Chiesa was to catch him in something.

Chiesa's strength is grappling/submissions so take that away, we look at other aspects like stand up, toughness, and cardio. Toughness aspect, no one is out toughing Diego, at least not mentally. Cadio, Diego has never looked gassed in any fights, nor do I recall Chiesa getting gassed. Stand up aspect, I favor Diego.
 

Rambo John J

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diego comes to bang. win or lose he throws down.he is never in a boring fight .he is the last of the mohicans .there isnt a lot of guys who fight like that anymore.all that being said he is delusional about ever getting a title shot and he will be lucky to get a new contract with the ufc.he got 99k/99k to fight mickey gall last time so you know the ufc wants to cut that payroll. i would expect diego to be fighting in bareknuckle or bellator by this time next year win or lose tomorrow night
He could literally win the fight on Crazy...I saw that stare down, he may be old and have miles on the tires...But his crazy meter is definitely peaking and higher than 99% of MMA fighters

And Cheisa knows it
 

lueVelvet

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Diego bare knuckle would be fucking insanity.
Definitely not. He even says that Jackson/wink was trying to get him to strike more when this whole time he never felt like a rangey striker. His shots are slow now a days (CTE and age are a bitch) so I’d hate to see him in a striking only fight. Now book him in some grappling matches and I’d be all in to watch that!
 

Onetrickpony

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Definitely not. He even says that Jackson/wink was trying to get him to strike more when this whole time he never felt like a rangey striker. His shots are slow now a days (CTE and age are a bitch) so I’d hate to see him in a striking only fight. Now book him in some grappling matches and I’d be all in to watch that!
In no way was I saying it would be good for Diego. I was thinking of what would happen if we finally got to see the Leben vs Sanchez fight that didn’t happen in TUF1.
 

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Three weeks prior to UFC 239, Diego Sanchez made a massive career change ahead of his fight against Michael Chiesa.

Sanchez decided it was time to leave Jackson Wink MMA after years of being one of the faces of the gym and linked up with Josh Fabia, the founder of the School of Self-Awareness.

Fabia will serve as the lone cornerman for Sanchez when “The Ultimate Fighter 1” winner makes his 30th walk to the octagon for the welterweight matchup with Chiesa at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. But who is Fabia?

According to him, he’s a person with a special skillset that allows him to offer something that doesn’t exist elsewhere in MMA.

“What I’ve done is I’ve revived ancient wisdom with modern technology,” Fabia told MMA Junkie. “It’s very unique; it’s very different. I have my own message. It is not like anything else out there. I’m addressing things that start at the time of earth and last to the day you die. So, yes, I have valuable martial and combative context to help Diego (with MMA), but on another level. I’m teaching him how to control himself and how to become aware of himself by becoming aware of everything around him.

“What I’m trying to show you is, you can invest the time and energy in yourself and create yourself into something special. You can enhance your senses. You can create an energy in you that is non-comparable by anybody else.”

Fabia first started working with Sanchez privately, before his last fight with Mickey Gall at UFC 235 in March. It proved to be one of Sanchez’s best performances in a more than 14-year UFC tenure. He produced a dominant second-round TKO finish, and he looked as ruthless as ever.

So, what brought Sanchez and Fabia together? Sanchez said he reached a point where he wasn’t getting the individual focus that he felt he needed from Jackson Wink at this stage in his career. “The universe” brought him to Fabia, a man with many hats, and the pair have since been working together to help Sanchez realize his full potential.

“He’s in a situation where something’s got to change, and if it’s not changing positively, the change will automatically feel negative,” Fabia said. “I think having some time with somebody with some different sets of skills, showing that the basics and the fundamentals of a lot of things have been skipped. A lot of people go to school 10 years, 15 years, you got all these degrees on the wall. How many of these people know how to breathe? So, you don’t know how to do the basic physiological functions of your body, but you want to run your mouth?”

Fabia, who owns the School of Self-Awareness, typically works with special forces and law enforcement, he said. He also works with thousands of people across the globe, traveling all around the world. He said he has helped people deal with emotional trauma and has helped Sanchez prepare for his upcoming fight in all areas, in ways that he believes nobody else can, including Jackson Wink namesakes Greg Jackson and Mike Winkeljohn.

“Yeah, we do mitts. Yeah, I’m wrestling with him,” Fabia said. “I’m the one cooking the meals. I’m the one handling the body work. I’m the one doing nine jobs. So, yeah, it’s a little different than ‘Wink’ and Greg and any other trainer, coach in the world. There’s nobody else doing all that. There’s nobody else that can do all that because they’ve compartmentalized it, and they got their degrees in one area.”