Why does diego sanchez say yes

Conor McGregor apparently hasn't forgotten his brief war of words with Diego Sanchez a few years ago. Sanchez had dropped three of his last five fights entering Saturday, and the general consensus was that he appeared headed for another defeat against Pereira:. That illegal knee and DQ win just allowed Diego Sanchez to get another fight that nobody wants to see.

And this fight is over due to an illegal knee from Pereira in the 3rd. Pereira was probably up Diego Sanchez wins via DQ. New England Patriots. New Orleans Saints. New York Giants. New York Jets. Philadelphia Eagles. Pittsburgh Steelers. San Francisco 49ers. Seattle Seahawks. Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Tennessee Titans. Washington Football Team. Big Big Sky. Big South.

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The enticements the UFC used to use to talk longtime fan favorites into walking away before things got truly ugly just don't exist anymore. The cushy front-office jobs the fight company used to use to entice people like Liddell and former welterweight champ Matt Hughes into hanging up the gloves were among the first on the chopping block when the new owners started hunting for savings. In addition to that, we're dealing with an altogether different marketplace today.

The success of Bellator MMA's senior circuit and the emergence of more circus-minded promotions like Rizin Fight Federation give aging fighters expanded options these days, for better and worse. So, even if the UFC did step in and declare that it won't give Sanchez the opportunity to suffer further physical trauma, you can bet there would be somebody willing to pay him to keep fighting. Perhaps this seems like an obvious point, but now more than ever the impetus for retirement has to come from the fighters themselves, not any external forces.

To date, Sanchez has given zero indication he's feeling that pull. That hardly makes him unique in MMA history, but to me it does raise some vexing questions. Mike, do you think there should be better plans in place to make retirement seem like a more viable option for older fighters? Pension plans? Lifelong health insurance? Organizations to aid in the transition? Is there anything we can do so these veterans don't want to fight too long?

Mike: The very thing that wires these men and women to want to fight in the first place is the biggest problem here, even more so than money. As we know, most of them make very little during their careers, particularly when you factor in risk versus reward. Instead, fighting is a kind of personal quest in finding their best selves. Some people climb mountains, others run marathons or jump out of airplanes. To the vast majority of us, those seem like risky and painful ways to pass time.

To others, it is as natural as a heartbeat. Sanchez is an outlier, even to that group. He is probably the most competitive, most ferocious fighter the UFC has ever seen, and so I understand his perspective when he views his recent struggles in that prism rather than that of the average Joe watching at home, working a to pay the bills.

He has as much trouble grasping our worldview as we do grasping his. We're almost two different kinds of humans. At some point, Sanchez will be able to look at himself more objectively, but while he's in the moment, and what he feels is still the midst of his career, that's somewhat impossible.

It's hard to blame him. Imagine if you had something you love to do more than anything in the world, something you're good enough at to make money and earn a spotlight while doing it, and the world tells you that at 35 years old, you can never do it again. Would your first instinct be to agree with them? To entertain that possibility?

Few would, and that's why having some kind of financial parachute isn't the solution. Don't get me wrong: it would be wonderful and just if the UFC offered pensions to veteran fighters like Sanchez who gave so much of themselves to the promotion, but that's not a solution to the problem of getting fighters out of the sport before it's too late.

Even in sports like baseball and basketball, where athletes bank millions and have generous pensions, they have trouble walking away when the sport tells them their time is up. Most are eventually forced out the hard way after their sport informs them they simply have no further value.