This Wednesday night the UFC will hosts their first event of the FOX platform sister-network Fuel, getting top billing is a welterweight bout with huge title implications between Diego Sanchez and Jake Ellenberger.
Sanchez has been a staple of the UFC since he won the first season of The Ultimate Fighter as a middleweight, earning a spot on the welterweight roster – Sanchez seemed destined for greatness from the first time we saw him, despite his loose-cannon antics and personality quirks he displayed in the house he took on all comers and looked impressive doing so.
The Albuquerque, New Mexico looked to be on a collision course towards championship gold at 170-pounds pushing his perfect record to 17-0 with notable wins over Nick Diaz, Karo Parisyan, Kenny Florian and Jorge Santiago before back-to-back losses to American Kickboxing Academy students Jon Fitch & Kosh Koscheck put his title hope on ice.
In 2008 he started his trek to lightweight gold winning four-straight bouts to ...
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Jake Shields,
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