Diego Sanchez was taken into custody final month on a number of gun costs, and the arresting officers barely acknowledged the previous UFC star.
On Friday, TMZ launched physique digital camera footage from the Albuquerque Police Division, which confirmed Sanchez cooperating with officers after being pulled over following a report that Sanchez had leaned out of a car window and fired a gun in the air while passing a crash. Sanchez was later charged with capturing at or from a motorcar (no nice bodily hurt), a fourth-degree felony, and negligent use of a lethal weapon (discharge), a misdemeanor.
Within the footage, Sanchez isn’t seen resisting, although he complains to the officer {that a} pair of handcuffs are biting into his wrists and inflicting him to bleed. The officer assures Sanchez a number of occasions he’s not bleeding.
Two officers then converse, with one noting, “So that is Diego Sanchez. As in UFC fighter Diego Sanchez. I believed I acknowledged it, too, however this man, he’s type of an even bigger title.”
Sanchez, 43, has competed professionally in MMA for over 20 years, along with his most up-to-date look going down at an Eagle FC occasion in Miami in March 2022. He misplaced a unanimous determination to fellow former UFC fighter Kevin Lee to see his profession report drop to 30-14.
Throughout a run with the UFC from 2005 to 2020, Sanchez established himself as a fan favourite. He gained a middleweight match on the inaugural season of The Final Fighter, then went on to compete at 170, 155, and 145 kilos. It was at light-weight the place Sanchez had his most success as he challenged B.J. Penn for a title at UFC 107 in December 2009, dropping by way of physician stoppage within the fifth spherical.
He completed his UFC run with a 19-13 report, which included seven Battle of the Evening awards. In 2019, Sanchez was inducted into the UFC Corridor of Fame Battle Wing alongside Clay Guida for his or her traditional duel that occurred at a Battle Evening occasion in 2009.
In Sanchez’s most up-to-date fight sports activities look, a bare-knuckle boxing match in opposition to Austin Trout at a BKFC occasion in February 2023, he misplaced by way of reduce stoppage.
Following his arrest on July 18, Sanchez was launched from jail and he awaits trial for the gun-related charges.
