{"id":344877,"date":"2020-03-19T07:20:41","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T14:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=344877"},"modified":"2020-03-19T07:20:41","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T14:20:41","slug":"diego-sanchez-responds-to-callout-from-demian-maia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/diego-sanchez-responds-to-callout-from-demian-maia\/","title":{"rendered":"Diego Sanchez responds to callout from Demian Maia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Diego Sanchez has responded to a recent callout from Demian Maia.<\/p>\n

Maia competed on last Saturday’s UFC Brasilia card, suffering a first-round knockout at the hands of Gilbert Burns in the co-main event.<\/p>\n

Post-fight, Maia announced that he wants to fight once more before retiring, ideally against Sanchez or Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone.<\/p>\n

\u201cYes for sure. I want one more [fight] and then probably retire,\u201d Maia said during the event’s post-fight show (via MMA Fighting<\/a>).<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s two guys \u2014 one is Diego Sanchez, because he\u2019s been asking for this fight for a long time so I want to fight him in the last fight,\u201d Maia added. \u201cA good last fight because he\u2019s a old legend, too.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe other one is [Donald] Cerrone, also would be interesting because he has one win more [in the UFC] than I [do].\u201d<\/p>\n

From the looks of it, Sanchez is open to this bout with Maia. On Wednesday night, the Ultimate Fighter season one winner took to Instagram where he seemingly confirmed his interest in a fight with the Brazilian legend.<\/p>\n

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