Diego Sanchez is uninterested in folks saying he has mind injury and CTE.
Sanchez has been preventing professionally since 2002 and has fought a complete of 44 occasions. Though all these matches have been in MMA, he can be making his BKFC debut at KnuckleMania 3 on February 17 towards a former boxing world champion, Austin Trout.
Nonetheless, when the battle was introduced, many had been important of the matchup and the actual fact Diego Sanchez was nonetheless preventing. Many have stated Sanchez has CTE and mind injury, which the UFC veteran says will not be true in any respect and needs to place that to an finish.
“Let me assault a few of the haters on the market who’ve gone with the propaganda and the agenda towards me,” Sanchez stated to BJPENN.com. “Initially, I didn’t depart the UFC getting knocked out like Chuck Liddell or Frankie Edgar, I wasn’t face down on the canvas. In my profession I’ve a few knockouts, Matt Brown hit me behind the ear with an elbow that put me out, Iaquinta hit me with a straight proper that I didn’t see, and so far as that, I had the BJ Penn the place there was so much for trauma. I did have some fights however I gave myself time to heal. I do scorching yoga day by day, I’m with the thoughts, the physique, and the spirit, I’m cleaning myself from the within out.
“For folks to come back with all this hate that I’ve CTE and mind injury, that is all false allegations. By no means as soon as in my well being has my reminiscence or something been questioned, yeah I’m dyslexic and my phrases come out backward,” Sanchez added. “However, it’s what it’s, my mind is wholesome and my thoughts is wholesome. I’ve taken nice care of myself and I simply need to nip this one within the bud and inform everyone I’ve handed each medical check potential with flying colours. My coronary heart, my mind, my thoughts. I’ve performed all the things. I simply mud it off my shoulder.
“However, for the folks on the market, I received a message for everybody on the market, cease being sheep and be a frontrunner,” Diego Sanchez stated. “Comply with your intestine, comply with your coronary heart, don’t simply see a remark and be like ‘oh, I’m going with that, he’s the CTE man. He should have, he was in all these wars, he should have.’ That’s bullshit, that’s full bullshit, it has by no means been in query, it is going to by no means be in query as a result of I handle myself and I’ll get out of this sport if I ever have one underlying issue of CTE. If I had issues I wouldn’t be doing this shit. I’m doing this shit as a result of I like it and I really like the competitors and I really like constructing on my legacy.”
To ensure that Diego Sanchez to take the battle towards Austin Trout, he says he did must go a number of medical exams on his mind which he handed. So, with that, he hopes all of the discuss of him having CTE involves an finish.
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