UFCMania.com has picked up on a story in todays OC Register online edition that Diego Sanchez tested positive for mirijuana after his victory over Joe Riggs last December.
This is the first I have heard of this and I haven’t seen it posted anywhere else before today either. According to Carlos Arias of the OC Register:
UFC welterweight contender Diego Sanchez tested positive for marijuana after his first-round KO over Joe Riggs on Dec.13 at Miramar Marine Corps Air Station. Armando Garcia, the executive officer of the California State Athletic Commission, said Sanchez paid a $500 fine and served a three-month suspension, so he has been cleared to fight Josh Koscheck at UFC 69 on April7 in Houston.
I’m very surprised that this news didn’t come out anywhere else before now. How could soemthing like this be “kept secret” and only come out now, only a few weeks before Sanchez is scheduled to fight again. Only getting a three month suspension doesn’t seem quite right considering the six month suspensions that the California State Athletic Commission recently handed out to Nick Diaz and several other fighters.
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Well…….at least we know he either can whoop some butt while he is high, or while he has marijuana in his system, I am shocked that it doesnt affect his stamina or cardio, or maybe that takes affect after a long time. But that is a good question doc, i wonder if things can be kept secret like this. Good thing he still gets to fight kos. Man……people on the green leaf sure can fight, diaz choked the heck out of gomi, sanchez ko’d riggs. This is amazing these athletes can keep this up while smoking.
hmmmmmmmm. can’t help but wonder if him and Diaz have the same connections.
This is too silly to even talk about…marijuana is no big deal for these guys.
The UFC probably wanted to keep this secret because Diego has become so popular and is in line for a title shot soon. It is kinda unfair that they only gave him half the suspension that other guys got for the same offense. He kinda looks like he would be a pot smoker. I don’t care if these guys smoke pot it only hurts themselves and is in no way perfomance enhancing.
I guess what it probably comes down to is image. How will it look to kids. The UFC wants to be able to market these guys to a huge demographic, including teenagers and even younger children.
THC does kill pain…
I don’t think this hurts their attempt to market to kids and teens, I think it hurts their ability to get sanctioned and licensed in every state which is the goal. This is making MMA look like a bunch of pot smoking drinking tatooed fighters who have no moral conscience and don’t know a thing about tact. I remember when Holyfield was a boxing champ, man they covered up his infidelity for years, the guy has like 13 kids with 7 women, and he has cheated on every wife, all the while going to the ring listening to Christian music and preaching. I think the UFC is just doing damage control and trying to keep their reputation clean, that’s all. Eventually your gonna see MMA fighting dolls at wal-mart though, and that’s when you are gonna see these guys’ public image totally change, they will have to be on their best behavior, and if they get caught with anything, you are going to see stiffer suspensions and penalties.
Diaz tested positive for marijuana in Nevada, not California.
honestly, this really isn’t a big deal. as a company, keep it on the downlow to maintain image. it’s going to be within the next 5 or 10 years that marijuana laws start becoming much more lax throughout the entire country anyway. there are basically no serious long term side effects from smoking pot once in a while. once someone becomes a heavy smoker, then it could start effecting cardio and even memory. it stays in your system for over a month so diego could’ve smoked one time and tested positive. the health issues related to drinking are much worse then pot but drinking is more socially acceptable. go figure.
@Shawn
…spoken like a true head.
Anybody taking bets on Ortiz-Evans?
uh… guys, you can test positive for THC without actually smoking weed, when your at a party and everyone is smoking, and its obviously a hotbox inside the place, you WILL test positive.
Ive had a couple of friends violate their probation for that same thing, i seriously doubt they smoke weed, and if they do, it would be a RARE treat for them. Weed wont affect your stamina unless your smoking ALOT of weed, and on a daily basis, like smoking cigarettes.
It will have a much larger effect on your reaction time, in terms of seeing punchs coming etc..
If you actually smoke weed, it can take up to 3 months to leave your system not just 1. In this case, and probably the Diaz case, they might be guilty by association, 2nd hand herbz.
personally i couldnt fight on weed so i doubt if he was high during the fight now if it was coke or meth its a different story believe me i know but diego does have this kinda squeeky clean look doesnt he or is it just me maybe thats why we havent heard about it its a cover up. a
ALRIGHT GUYS IVE GOT A QUESTION FOR ALL U WHATS THE MOST MEMORABLE FIGHT YOU HAVE BEEN IN WIN OR LOSE
Hillbilly
rashad is a beast ortiz wont be able to keep him down i say decision evans
@Diik,
I wish you were right, but this will Sugar’s first taste of his own blood.
He has no idea of what it feels like to be on the bottom of Tito’s ground and pound……poor guy….
strike up another TKO for Tito…
My favorite “brawl” was at the Ironhorse, when I smashed a glass beer mug square on the bridge of the nose of the biggest monster in the house. He immediately charged me before going out, and fell leaving a trail of blood down my chest.
Needless to say, his 3 other weight lifting dumb-asses didn’t have his back….
ill answer my question one time i was walking with my homie and i accidentelly happened to bump into a guy walking with his girlfriend but i didnt think nothing of it not a second later i got pushed onto the road face first they guy fu*cken japped me not a word he just pushed the sh*it out of me i think i even flew a little and im 6’1 265 then so he let me get up and my homie had his knife on him so he pulled it out and they guy and his girlfriend started talking sh*it crazy like there was no knife so he told me to apologize and he wouldnt kick my fat azz now i started to swing and he was straight ****kin me up i was bleeding bad nose mouth even my ****ken eye brow had a fat cut now this guy was beating my azz so bad he started to try to walk away when he realized this guys fu*cked up and i start i aint done yet even though i havent done nothing i dont even think i hitnow this guy was asking his girlfriend if he could give me more and she was all into it talking sh*it bad so this time he came back still beating my azz until i grabbed his shirt pulled it got a hold of him and tripped him as soon as he fell i kicked him in the head and fell on him with my knee hard enough to feel something break now this guys holding his face so i start to kick the sh*it out of him until i stopped asked him if he wanted anymore he said no and as i pass his girlfriend shes on her cell telling someone to bring a gun that some guys just beat up i think she said modesto and she looks me in the eye and says ur going to die bi*tch and for some reason i swear i have never done this but i cracked that bi*tch so hard in her jaw she started crying and her boyfriend started crying it was some weird ****
now im not promoting hitting girls but when ur girlfriend has a big mouth and wants to act and sound like a guy shes going to get treated like a guy
this was before i started really getting in to mma now i would went for a take down immedialty after i couldnt land a punch this guy must have been a boxer cuz he beat the **** out of me
another time a cop passed by as me and a couple of friends had barely beaten up this guy{a gang thing}and the cop managed to grab my homie in a rear naked and choked him out blue so all of us started kicking the sh*it out of the cop knocked him out tryed to get my homie but he was out now if u think ur a bad azz assault a police officer and see what happens i was 17 at the time i was handcuffed face down and probablly got kicked and punched for a good five minutes but not in the face not to mention when i turned 18 in jail and “accidentlly”got put in to a rival gangs holding cell when i was getting booked with my with hands cuffed and legs shackled trust me i learned dont fu*ck with the police
Dang Richard….those we’re some pretty cool stories. I feel sorry for what you had to go through with the police. I can so see that happening. I’m basically a straight and narrow kinda guy, but I hadden’t always been that way. Up-n-till a few yrs ago I ran with a hard group. Drugs, girls, and all that kinda stuff. It’s a much betta life now.
Cool story about the “boxer” guy. I can’t down ya for what you did to the girl. I don’t hit any females either, but that’s the one thing I HATE. A girl talkin smake thinking her man’s gonna save the day. I was wondering why you didn’t go for the takedown, but at the end I realized why. You didn’t really know you could. Screw standing up… good story…
The hell with image. Pro players are always getting busted. They just happened to get smart and think of ways past things. I don’t condone roids or any type of meth, but the hell with Mary J. Let ‘em relax and who cares. It don’t hurt you and even though I haven’t smoked in yrs, I don’t have one single problem with someone who does it from time to time. It’s your choice.
No one comes down on Randy Moss, etc. The guy can still catch balls… he just needs someone to throw ‘em to him.
my best fight was agaist one of my friends we beat the **** right out of each other.it was started as a joke we were guna start this back yard fight club and just joke aroudn and fight.. So me and this guy started out nice and easy liek friends would just jabbing and kinds just getting a feel for one another and so he throws a jab a side step it and hit him with what i thougth was a half *** rigth hook but i guess i didnt knwo my own strenth and it kinda rocked him he didnt fall or nuhthng just stumbled a bit well he didnt liek that so he start rushin me and not really wanting to hurt him i kinda ignore it and side step him again well then he starts throwing these haymakers and i duck one and move out the way of the second and bam square in the nose he catches me with the thrid blood everywhere so i step back kinda feel around my nose and **** then throw one of my own and catch him just under the left eye and we stand toe to toe just throwin crazy punches for a liek 4 or 5 more shots and he catches me with a good one on the chin sent me to one knee so since i was down there i just tackled him and got in about 2 or 3 shots before the rest of our friends broke it up. man tahst was a good night got drunk afterwards still friends to this day
my favorite scrap was the time i kicked the holy sh*t out of my ex’s step dad in front of the hospital (it was a good spot cuz he needed attention right after) it was the day my daughter was born and the ashole step dad was running his mouth off about me being a loser (this comming from a convicted child molester) and i wanted to beat this guy up anyways. i am 5’11″ and weigh 175lbs. and he was about 2 inches taller and weighed about 250lbs. or so. he was sitting on a bench having a smoke and talking sh*t and he said i was nothing but a sperm donor and i snapped i smashed him with a big right (i’m a southpaw) and he rolled off the bench and hit the ground i almost felt bad for hitting someone that was sitting so i let him get up. he jumped up and charged at me with him hand by his waist so i popped him with a quick jab and a left hook he tackled me and we ended up in a bush as soon as we hit the ground (inside a big asss bush) my buddy who was there broke it up. at this point i though its time to go toe to toe, man to man i told him he better get his hands up then i started to bomb on him full tilt he took about two or three nice punches befor ducking into a knee (a knee that made ME limp for a week) i’m not too sure how he still got me down but he did and ended up laying all over me i threw an elbow or two and wormed my way to his back and i flated him out and after a couple of punches and elbows i stood up and started throwing kicks and stomps at that point my friend figured he had enough and grabbed me. in the police report he says “the punches and kicks and elbows were comming so fast they were almost too fast for it to be only one person implying my friend was in on the beating its a good thing that two or three lucky nurses who got to see the awesome fight and would back up my story that i was alone ( gang beating can get you in much more trouble) the reason thats my favorite fight is cuz i worked buddy over pretty bad (he needed a few stitches here and there and had a few lumps, bump, and bruises) the only injuries i had i caused myself. dont ever wrestle with someone on cement when your are wearing shorts and an undershirt. i had no skin left anywhere. my other best fight was when i got my asss handed to me by an awesome kick boxer he was a southpaw who was way too quick and he had very accurate very hard punches and kicks. i threw a big left haymaker he slipped it and tagged me big time right on the button i didnt go down at that moment but i did go down soon after… three time i got rocked and hit the ground. but i got back every time just as fast as i went down. i always wanted to fight him again because i got tagged by his first punch and after that all i did was chase him and take shots because i was too punch drunk to defend myself. me and that guy hated each other there was a lot of bad blood. two years ago that guy died and i will never get my shot at redeeming myself and as much as i hated him i do respect him as a very tough guy. i like to think if there is a heaven then i will probably get to fight him again and as much as i want. i dont want to say his name out of respect for his family and the fact that we were not friends but i do want to say R.I.P. to one hell of a fighter!
oh yeah and ortiz vs. evans i think ortiz will drop evans in two. damn it i hate saying tito will win.
Damn good stories gents. You make me proud!
Bumfights rule!! .. just kidding…
…as for the girl part, I would have probably given here a huge kiss, then spun her around, and smacked her on the az!
Then said to the boyfriend, “now *****, protect that”! with a hearty laugh.
these are some great stories hey RJ do u train in some type of combat sport same for u hillbilly?
not any more… getting too old for the constant physical abuse.
Brian i dont blame the cops for kicking my azz those guys are like a big family and if some body hurt my family i would want to hurt them i probably desereved a little more than they actually gave me
@Dennis
You can train without tearing your body apart, if you are constantly injured in training, then you are going too far, or are training with animals. A Martial Artist has to know when to push and pull, I used to get injured when I was in my late teens and early twenties, but not anymore, I learned where to draw the line, I mean, I still get an occasional shin splint, or hit a little harder than I planned, or some swelling or bruising, but that comes with any contact sport. Of course, being a teacher has it’s advantages, like I say go and stop… lol, and none of my student’s can kick my butt, so that’s a pretty good advantage too..
@MMAkansas
Yea, I know, but at 49, and traveling 60+% of the year makes it really hard, beyond the basics.
unlike Shamrock……… I know when to quit!…. LOL
@ Dennis
Damn your old I wouldn’t be admitting stuff like that. Just kidding I’m 29 and abused my body for years also. I’ve done kick boxing sinse I was 12 and learned to wrestle and grapple in my twenties. It does take a toll but I love to compete. I have some good friends that are accomplished wrestlers and they teach me that and we are all MMA fans so we try and teach each other submission grappling for fun. My buddy has a big wrestling mat in his garage that his son uses to practice wrestling. We use it to do submission grappling some times. I’ve slowed my pace a little over the last couple years but I’m to addicted to stop completely. I took a good spill last year at the motocross track on my ATV so my body is finally getting back to 100% but before than I did fell like nothing could hurt me that bad but I was proved wrong.
@Dennis
Yeah buddy, I hear you talking, the only exception I have seen to that rule has been Randy Couture… the guy is timeless
What can I say…… Randy is a legend in his own time.
BIG exception to the rule.
@MAD
I also must be careful on my Honda 500 ATV, and my Harley.
No more crazy stuff!!
hehe nice stories guys, heres one for ya, a serious reality check and an important life lesson too.
This happened when i was 17, i was an orange belt in kempo (so basically unskilled) but my fighting skills didnt really come into play in this situation. A bunch of my friends had gotten into an argument about something stupid, i wasnt there when it started, i was at coffee time playing videogames hehe. So one of my boys comes an tells me theres a scrap and i should follow him, so we run out to the basketball court behind the library. I see 3 of my boys and 2 “enemies”, they all have weapons, baseball bats, bottles and my one boy had a tire iron. So we reach them now its basically 5 on 2, were at the sht talking stage, it seemed like it was about to end, until my buddy with the tire iron says to my other buddy, “are you gonna do something? why are we out here if your not gonna do something?”. So he decides to take a swing at one guy with the bat, ofcourse he misses, then my other buddy throws the tire iron into the guys chest.
Next thing i knew, they had ANOTHER guy with them who snuck up from behind and hit my buddy Joachim in the side of the head with the bat. I mean he didnt see it coming and it was like a homerun swing! so he went down without a sound, his head busted open like a melon and were all kind of in shock. Now these guys are taking off, some of my boys were chasing them, but these guys were running for their life, i hate to think what would have happened if we caught those guys, they would have definately been killed and i might not be here to tell you guys about this.
So anyway, my boy chubb called the ambulance, long story short, Joachim spent 6 weeks in the hospital and he had to learn how to speak again.
Theres been tons of scraps before that, but since that happened, i havent been in a fight again, it was a serious wakeup call man, real talk. I always try and difuse situations, even if i have to leave the bar/club or watever it is because i dont want to get hurt, just like i dont want to hurt someone else. Im a brown belt these days, but its only because Villari doesnt give out blackbelts easily hehe and the grandmaster has to administer the test and award you the belt himself. I consider myself a deadly weapon even with a brown belt, because from what ive been through, i dont brawl for fun, if it comes down to combat, it may very well be to the death. I dont know what this guy has in mind, but i cant risk going easy and end up crippled or dead.
Martial arts is for defense only, in the case where im defending my life, i WILL strike the throat, tiger claw the face, attack the groin, possibly tear someones ear off.. these are not things i want to do, this is why im glad i had the traditional martial arts training that i did. If i was an mma fighter i probably wouldnt have the discipline to avoid confrontation, id probably be a cocky prick. End up killing someone and ultimately that will come back to you, thru revenge or justice no matter what it is, i never want to know what it feels like to take a life.
I have tons more fight stories from before this incident, but this was really the most… educational. I hope you guys can learn from my experience too, as master says, true wisdom is learning from other peoples mistakes.
nicely said BV…..
eyes, ears, nose, throat………… and of course take out the rocks!
Now we all know why Diego has that goofy grin on his face in that picture.. lol hehehe
Yea, good picture selection… fits the story.
Way to go Doc!
Hey BV,
You remind me of a Kung Fu Black Belt friend of mine in Sacramento.
@Dennis
I hope thats a good thing hehe.
Heres a Question for Everyone… you guys train any weapons? include melee, ranged, firearms, watever..
@BVRASP
Sticks, knives, 45′s .. no tradional stuff though.
I also have a black belt in baseball bat!!
HAHA you guys are jokers man heheh.
As for me, the extent of my knife skills is all in the disarm, i havent had any training in pulling out a knife and weilding it trying to stab someone lol.
I always loved the sword since i was a kid, i tried learning to use a katana, but really… it never grew on me, i feel alot more… mobile and fluid without the sword in my hand.. what WAS cool was the rapier, buddy of mine was REALLY into fencing and he showed me a few moves, dam! ill take a rapier over a katana any day! and NO the katana cant chop thru the rapier hehe its too flexible.
The weapon that i LOVE and where ive studied the most is the JO-STAFF. Its the ultimat melee weapon man, it just becomes a part of you. Another good thing is you can find one almost anywhere, broomstick, pool cue, etc..
Im a carpenter by trade, so i actually made my own Jo, Solid Red Oak! its a bit heavy, but that helps you develop the right muscles during training.. its beautiful man! hehe
They also call me a beer mug master….
…but really, I try to train my son that any object can be effectively used as a weapon.