{"id":263420,"date":"2017-11-09T11:21:21","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T19:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=263420"},"modified":"2017-11-09T11:55:52","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T19:55:52","slug":"exclusive-matt-brown-believes-diego-sanchez-retire-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/exclusive-interviews\/exclusive-matt-brown-believes-diego-sanchez-retire-1\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE | Matt Brown explains why Diego Sanchez should consider retiring too"},"content":{"rendered":"

This weekend, on the main card of the UFC’s anticipated stop in Norfolk, Virginia, welterweight fan favorite Matt Brown will partake in the final fight of his long career.<\/a> His dance partner for this swan song will be Diego Sanchez, a fighter of a similar vintage.<\/p>\n

Given that Sanchez has also been fighting for many years, Brown believes it might be time for him to retire too<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Yeah, I think so,” Brown said of Sanchez’s retirement on the latest episode of BJ Penn Radio<\/a>. “It seems from the outside looking in that it’s probably his time. I don’t see him ever going on a championship run again so, to me that’s what it’s about. I don’t see the reason to be risking life and limb out there, especially when I have a family and everything. You know, if you’re not pushing to be the best in the world, and I think Diego is sort of in that situation where he’s really just fighting to fight really or, you know, sort of like a normal person lives pay check to pay check they’re living fight to fight you know. To me, that’s not a healthy thing and especially when you get older and you get into the age where things are slowing down and you have a higher risk potential, and at least for myself, I’m smart enough to do other things. I don’t have to just be a fighter, I have a good head on my shoulders, I’m an intelligent person, so there’s no reason for me to do the most dangerous thing I could possibly do.”<\/p>\n

Brown, currently 20-16, has partaken in 36 professional fights. Sanchez, meanwhile, is 27-10 overall, having fought a whopping 37 times.<\/p>\n

Do you think Diego Sanchez would be wise to follow in Matt Brown’s footsteps and hang up the gloves?<\/p>\n

This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a>\u00a0on 9\/11\/2017. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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