{"id":362755,"date":"2020-09-29T06:01:04","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T13:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=362755"},"modified":"2020-09-29T06:01:04","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T13:01:04","slug":"jake-matthews-says-he-almost-apologized-to-diego-sanchez-during-final-moments-of-ground-and-pound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/jake-matthews-says-he-almost-apologized-to-diego-sanchez-during-final-moments-of-ground-and-pound\/","title":{"rendered":"Jake Matthews says he almost apologized to Diego Sanchez during final moments of ground and pound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC welterweight Jake Matthews has admitted he almost apologized to Diego Sanchez in the final moments of their UFC 253 showdown.<\/p>\n<p>Matthews was able to dominate the UFC veteran from pillar to post in a unanimous decision win that was scored 30-26 across the board. It took Matthews&#8217; current winning streak to three in the Ultimate Fighting Championship with six wins in his last seven, compared to Sanchez who has actually won three of his last five.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old was pretty honest in the aftermath of a win that many consider to be one of the biggest of his career thus far &#8211; if only because of the name value that Sanchez holds.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jake Matthews elated after &#039;surreal&#039; Diego Sanchez win | UFC 253 post-fight interview\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nZdWvlcpCzo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat last bit of ground and pound, I was this close to apologizing to him,&#8221; Matthews said <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/lists\/jake-matthews-apologize-to-diego-sanchez-ufc-253-fight-island-video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MMA Junkie<\/a>. &#8220;I\u2019ve watched him since I was 11 years old. Between him and BJ Penn, they\u2019re two of my all-time favorites. I didn\u2019t let it get to my head before the fight, but now it\u2019s going to sink in and it\u2019s crazy being able to beat a guy like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>UFC president Dana White <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/dana-white-on-potential-retirement-talks-with-diego-sanchez-and-donald-cerrone-its-the-not-so-fun-part-of-the-job\/\">wasn&#8217;t shy when discussing<\/a> what could be next for Sanchez after his latest defeat to Matthews.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love Diego Sanchez. And I don\u2019t know. I don\u2019t know. It\u2019s something I need to think about and it\u2019s obviously something I need to talk to the guys about back home when we get back to the office and see what everybody thinks,\u201d White said after Sanchez lost to Matthews.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI got these guys now \u2014 you got Diego Sanchez who fights his heart out every time he fights, he was part of TUF 1, everybody knows how I feel about those guys. And he\u2019s just a great, great person. Then you got [Donald] &#8216;Cowboy&#8217; [Cerrone], who you can say all the same things about. And you know, as these guys start to get older and start racking up loses, it\u2019s tough. But Diego\u2019s like, I don\u2019t know for sure off the top of my head, but he\u2019s won three of his last five or something like that. Yeah, it\u2019s tough. It\u2019s tough. It\u2019s the not-so-fun part of the job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Do you think Diego Sanchez should retire after his loss to Jake Matthews?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC welterweight Jake Matthews has admitted he almost apologized to Diego Sanchez in the final moments of their UFC 253 showdown. Matthews was able to dominate the UFC veteran from pillar to post in a unanimous decision win that was scored 30-26 across the board. 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