Diego Sanchez Stuck In No Man's Land After Loss To BJ Penn
by Kelvin Hunt on Jan 18, 2010 5:00 PM EST
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It's so bad that he's contemplating moving back up to the UFC welterweight division:
The New Mexico native on Sunday night left a somewhat cryptic message via his Facebook page stating "going back up to 170."
When contacted by MMAWeekly.com, Jeff Clark, Sanchez's manager, indicated that there has been no official decision made at this time about what weight class he will compete in next.
Its gotta suck to be Diego Sanchez. He lost against the two top welterweight contenders while fighting there, although he was relatively competitive against Josh Koscheck and Jon Fitch. However, he got absolutely destroyed against lightweight champion BJ Penn at UFC 107. Yall know I'm not a fan of MMA math, but if we'll recall, BJ Penn got the same treatment against welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre at UFC 94. So basically Diego Sanchez is now a gatekeeper in either division he decides to fight in as long as both of those guys are champions in their respective divisions.
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he could always go back to middleweight where he fought on the tuf show. lol.
i'm all about covering the spread and moneylines. i was building a house, i don't deserve this, deserves have nothing to do with it. bang. "unforgiven"
by wolfmanshowlforever on Jan 18, 2010 6:13 PM EST reply actions
With Sanchez getting so outclassed by BJ, there’s no doubt in my mind GSP would beat him to a pulp just like BJ did. I know that BJ and GSP are completely different fighters, but the level of their talent and skills is just off the charts compared to Sanchez. I wonder if he would consider fighting at 155 in WEC. I doubt it, but I don’t believe he has a future at 170 in the UFC, or 185 for that matter. He’s a really good fighter, just not a championship level fighter yet.
ya know
him going to the WEC wouldn’t be that bad…I’d like to see him and Henderson mix it up.
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Dude’s offed some world class guys and only suffered one loss that could be labeled ‘demoralizing’ (or perhaps ‘soul crushing’ lol)… I think he should stay at 155 and build on the experience he got from going 4 rounds and change with BJ; now he knows what it takes and if there’s anyone who can turn getting mauled into something positive it’s Diego. Just because you lost to the champ doesn’t mean you have to switch divisions/organization/etc — plenty of dudes with good takedown defense and striking in the LW division to test where he’s really at.
"I don’t care, hit him with your groin!"
Yea
but with the way he got destroyed….he’d never get another shot at the title as long as BJ is the champ…and that could be a while…lol.
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The road is admittedly long for him right now, but remember how they basically had to do that with Sobral/Liddell? If Sanchez defeats top-ranked competition over the course of his next fights with improvement I think it’s a sellable fight (hardcores might grumble, but with Diego’s uhm, “unique”, personality I think he will always draw interest). Several people started calling for GSP/Penn 3 immediately after the Sanchez fight less than a year removed from edition #2 (which was a beatdown).
"I don’t care, hit him with your groin!"
They did?
I haven’t heard many people say they’d like to see GSP/Penn 3
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by Kelvin Hunt on Jan 19, 2010 10:04 AM EST up reply actions
I’ve heard several. Then there’s the “moderates” who want him to fight Jon Fitch or someone like that first and people like me who aren’t all that interested at all – point is, Penn/GSP 3 would do great numbers.
"I don’t care, hit him with your groin!"
that's because
GSP is THAT dude though…lol.
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by Kelvin Hunt on Jan 19, 2010 10:42 AM EST up reply actions
So is Penn… at least when it comes to drawing power.
Sometimes you can justify rematches like that when there’s dominant champions cleaning house… that and hustle like a muhfug for fresh outside talent and to turn blue chippers into contenders. Not saying Sanchez will ever get another shot at Penn, but it’s completely out of the question and there’s plenty of intriguing fights for him as far as staying at 155 goes.
"I don’t care, hit him with your groin!"
oh
I agree he should stay at 55….I’d like to see him against Gomi, Maynard, Edgar, or a rematch with Florian…etc.
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by Kelvin Hunt on Jan 19, 2010 10:58 AM EST up reply actions
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