UFC Corridor of Famer Diego Sanchez mentioned he’s preventing again after being victimized by his former coach, Josh Fabia.
In an Instagram video launched Friday, Sanchez accused Fabia of years of abuse, claiming the self-awareness guru made him worry for he and his household’s security as their skilled and private relationship ended.
Sanchez additionally claimed to have filed a restraining order towards Fabia, whom he claimed is a “educated killer,” “ex-hitman” and “ex-contract employee for the cartels.” A search by MMA Combating of courtroom data in New Mexico didn’t reveal any such order.
“For the previous 2 years, I’ve been working from a really traumatic expertise,” Sanchez mentioned within the video. “You understand, phrases can not even clarify how traumatizing this was. It entails a really evil man that manipulated, blackmailed, extorted me and ultimately put an finish to my UFC profession. I’ve been coping with this psychopath for, s***, it’s been three years, 4 years. I paid him out. I paid him cash to get out of my life, as a result of the state of affairs had change into so unstable, and so evil and darkish, that there was no different choice. Both he was going to kill me, or I used to be going to should kill him.”
Sanchez ended his teaching relationship with Fabia in Could 2021, one month after his dramatic departure from the UFC. “The Final Fighter 1” winner was pulled from a struggle with former teammate Donald Cerrone at UFC Vegas 26 after a looking for medical data from his UFC profession to doc the “long-term results of … being a UFC fighter,” which prompted the promotion to require he certify he was not affected by any well being problems, together with points along with his mind.
Fabia subsequently blasted Sanchez after their breakup, claiming he was taken benefit of as a coach and enterprise accomplice.
Not too long ago, Sanchez reposted a video that seems to indicate Fabia severing their enterprise relationship by ordering a six-figure payout from the previous UFC fighter.
Within the video posted on Friday, Sanchez confirmed that he paid “psychopath” Fabia to “get out of my life, as a result of the state of affairs had change into so unstable, and so evil and darkish, that there was no different choice. Both he was going to kill me, or I used to be going to should kill him.”
Sanchez mentioned he selected to not bodily retaliate towards Fabia as a result of he feared he can be despatched to jail and miss his daughter’s childhood.
“Everyone needs to inform me, ‘Why didn’t you simply snap his neck, why didn’t you simply crush this man. If I used to be you I’d have simply snapped him,’” Sanchez mentioned. “Yeah, I’d have cherished to try this, however I’m coping with a really unstable, mentally unstable, sociopathic psychopath, that’s, principally, one of the simplest ways I might put it, you’re coping with a Charlie Manson-type of thoughts, the place he’s to date gone that it makes him unstable and harmful.
“And the manipulation that was placed on … to me was additionally that he’s an ex-trained killer, an ex-hitman, an ex-contract employee for the cartels, and simply a lot darkness on this man that it put me in a state of worry that I used to be apprehensive for the security of not solely my life, but in addition my daughter, my mom, and even my daughter’s mom, too.”
Sanchez claimed that in his skilled relationship, he was blackmailed by Fabia and subsequently deserted when his funds didn’t measure up for the guru and coach.
He mentioned confronting Fabia in spite of everything this time is important for him to maneuver on in his life and profession.
“Dude, I’ve misplaced sleep over this,” he mentioned. “I’ve gone numerous nights with no relaxation, sleeping within the mornings to really feel secure, as a result of there’s a real psychopathic individual on the market that wishes me useless, that believes in his thoughts that I used to be the supply of ruining his life, when finally, this man got here into my life and did the alternative. He ruined mine. However in his opinion, I ruined his fame. I ruined his firm. And I wasn’t the one which had the greed in my coronary heart. He had the greed in his coronary heart.”
“As soon as he came upon I didn’t have as a lot cash as he thought, he misplaced his thoughts, carried out slavery on me, put me into a few of the harshest situations of torture that individuals couldn’t even consider. That is actual Charlie Manson-level craziness. Out of the love for my daughter and my mom and my household, I used to be put in these conditions and compelled to adjust to the whole lot he mentioned and did.”
Sanchez included a name to potential promoters for one more struggle in MMA, bare-knuckle MMA or bare-knuckle boxing; he most not too long ago competed for Naked Knuckle Combating Championship, the place he confronted ex-boxing champ Austin Trout and misplaced a bloody resolution in February 2023.
