Diego Sanchez skräder inte orden när han talar om två av sina lagkamraters senaste fighter. I en intervju med MMAFighting.com lägger han ut texten om vad han ogillade med hur Carlos Condit och Clay Guida presterade i deras senaste matcher.
”I thought both of those fights sucked,” sa Sanchez om Diaz-Condit och Guidas förlust mot Gray Maynard. ”My coaches might get mad at me for that, but that’s my opinion and I’m allowed to have my opinion.”
”I thought Nick Diaz won the fight with Carlos. When you’re not engaging and you’re not fighting, that takes away what this sport is. That’s my opinion, that’s why I want to fight someone like the Diaz boys who will come and step in front of you and fight you. I guess that’s all opinion, but the fans, they have my back on this, and that’s what fighting’s all about. It’s for the fans, and Dana White knows this. That’s why he gets so pissed off when there’s crappy fights like that. Us as fighters, we must step it up if we want to get taken care of and get paid right and grow this fight into the biggest spot in the world, above all other sports, we have to get in the cage and we have to leave it all in the cage every time.”
Sanchez var dock inte beredd att ge skulden till Greg Jackson och hans kända camp i New Mexico, som han tränar hos, utan menade att ansvaret ligger på individuella fighters.
”It’s on that fighter. In the end, they lock the door and the coaches aren’t in there with you. In the end, if you’re in the UFC, you are a professional, you paid your dues, and you know exactly what this job entails. You should go in there as a professional and do what you do. … I’d rather go out swinging, fighting like a warrior, those last 30 seconds. I’m going to leave it all out in the cage and know that I’m trying to finish my opponent, even knowing that most of my time it ain’t going to be a finish.”
Sanchez, som har haft en del skadebesvär på senare tid, tillkännagav nyligen att han skulle återvända till lättvikt. Hans senaste match var en förlust via enhälligt domslut mot Jake Ellenberger i februari i år. Detta var hans fjärde match i weltervikt efter att han förlorade en titelmatch mot BJ Penn i lättvikt i december 2009. Vem han kommer möta i sin första match tillbaka i den lättare viktklassen är ännu ej klart.
