A little more than four years ago, I spent a couple of days hanging out at the Jackson Wink MMA gym in Albuquerque. Diego Sanchez , who played a considerable role in making New Mexico a mecca for elite fighters, had just lost a one-sided decision to Ricardo Lamas in the middle of a run in which he lost six out of nine fights. As the camp’s outstanding striking coach, Brandon Gibson, pondered how to go forward with a fighter whose peak appeared past, he said something that echoes in my brain every time I’ve watched Sanchez fight since
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Is Diego Sanchez’s career barreling toward a nightmare ending? | Opinion – MMA Junkie