Please do not refer to UFC welterweight contender Diego Sanchez as “The Nightmare” any longer.
According to the Ultimate Fighter Season One winner, there is no more need for the “Nightmare”-moniker or any other nickname for that matter.
“I let that go. I let the ‘Nightmare’ go. To me, I see some negative in it. A nightmare is something that is negative and kind of evil. I don’t want to represent that. I want to represent positivity and good,” Sanchez said during a Tuesday teleconference (via MMA Fighting).
“I look back on my career. The ‘Nightmare’? The nightmare was myself. All the times I fell off track and got into drinking, got into smoking weed, the things that brought me down, the partying. That was my nightmare. I was my own nightmare. I’m grown up. I’m going to let that name go. I just want to be Diego Sanchez. I don’t even need a nickname. I’m me.”
Sanchez stated that he is between 187-190 lbs leading into his main event bout against Martin Kampmann at UFC on Versus 3 on March 3.
Both men are looking to rise to the top and eventually challenge for the welterweight title. Sanchez states that his future will not include a return to the lightweight division.
“The options are closed for me to ever go down to 155 again.”
According to the Ultimate Fighter Season One winner, there is no more need for the “Nightmare”-moniker or any other nickname for that matter.
“I let that go. I let the ‘Nightmare’ go. To me, I see some negative in it. A nightmare is something that is negative and kind of evil. I don’t want to represent that. I want to represent positivity and good,” Sanchez said during a Tuesday teleconference (via MMA Fighting).
“I look back on my career. The ‘Nightmare’? The nightmare was myself. All the times I fell off track and got into drinking, got into smoking weed, the things that brought me down, the partying. That was my nightmare. I was my own nightmare. I’m grown up. I’m going to let that name go. I just want to be Diego Sanchez. I don’t even need a nickname. I’m me.”
Sanchez stated that he is between 187-190 lbs leading into his main event bout against Martin Kampmann at UFC on Versus 3 on March 3.
Both men are looking to rise to the top and eventually challenge for the welterweight title. Sanchez states that his future will not include a return to the lightweight division.
“The options are closed for me to ever go down to 155 again.”
