{"id":152608,"date":"2015-06-30T11:25:30","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T18:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=152608"},"modified":"2022-02-04T18:44:12","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T02:44:12","slug":"diego-sanchez-might-have-found-his-next-opponent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/diego-sanchez-might-have-found-his-next-opponent\/","title":{"rendered":"Diego Sanchez Might Have Found His Next Opponent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Diego-Sanchez1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-127615\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Diego-Sanchez1.jpg\" alt=\"Diego Sanchez1\" width=\"730\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Diego-Sanchez1.jpg 730w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Diego-Sanchez1-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Diego-Sanchez1-585x305.jpg 585w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Diego-Sanchez1-390x203.jpg 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>UFC multi-weight fighter Diego Sanchez might have found his next opponent, via Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>It seems like fighters are trying hard to schedule their own fights these days. Guys will go back and forth on Twitter or social media, until they build it up so much that it just makes sense to go ahead and make it official.<\/p>\n<p>Well, lets see if that&#8217;s the case for Sanchez and Tatsuya Kawajiri.<\/p>\n<p>The two started talking almost right after Kawajiri beat Dennis Siver at UFC Fight Night: Berlin. Kawajirir first replied to Sanchez by saying he wanted a ranked fighter, so he wasn&#8217;t interested in the fight, but it seems as though he might have changed his mind.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CRUSHER_MMA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CRUSHER_MMA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shafi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@shafi<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ufc?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ufc<\/a> It&#39;s on then let&#39;s do <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/war?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#war<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Diego Sanchez UFC (@DiegoSanchezUFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DiegoSanchezUFC\/status\/615678695831801856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 30, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Does this fight interest you at all?<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;The Crippler&#8221; Update &#8212; &#8216;I&#8217;ve Got 2000 Students&#8230; No Desire To Compete&#8217;<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 560px; height: 315px;\" src=\"\/\/players.brightcove.net\/3674338004001\/eaee41e3-5171-4ead-a4ec-4e7670e9e465_default\/index.html?videoId=4321867607001\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC multi-weight fighter Diego Sanchez might have found his next opponent, via Twitter. It seems like fighters are trying hard to schedule their own fights these days. Guys will go back and forth on Twitter or social media, until they build it up so much that it just makes sense to go ahead and make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2616,"featured_media":127615,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2681],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Diego Sanchez Might Have Found His Next Opponent | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Sanchez found someone to fight him, now the UFC just has to make it official....FULL story on BJPENN.COM.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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