Former UFC fighter Diego Sanchez was arrested on two gun-related charges and is in custody in Albuquerque, New Mexico.<\/p>\n
According to an arrest record acquired by MMA Fighting<\/a>, the 43-year-old was taken in at 12:01 a.m. and booked for shooting at or from a motor vehicle (no great bodily harm), a fourth-degree felony, and negligent use of a deadly weapon (discharge), a misdemeanor.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Sanchez reportedly leaned out of a passenger side window and shot a firearm into the air. After police followed the vehicle and arrested Sanchez, who denied firing the gun, but he admitted that the firearm was in the car.<\/p>\n The driver is not facing charges but told the authorities that Sanchez fired the gun. Sanchez was also laughing while being probed by the officers, according to MMA Fighting.<\/p>\n Sanchez won Season 7 of The Ultimate Fighter reality show by earning a split decision over Clay Guida in 2009. He remained in the organization until 2020. He ended his MMA career on a loss against Kevin Lee in Eagle Fighting Championship and walked away with a 30-14 record.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Sanchez tallied seven Fight of the Night bonuses in his UFC tenure. His fight against Guida was also inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame in 2019.<\/p>\n At the tail end of his career, Lopez worked with and had a fallout with Joshua Fabia<\/a>, the founder of the infamous School of Self-Awareness<\/a>. Fabia’s bizarre training methods included chasing students around a cage with a knife <\/a>and punching Sanchez<\/a> on the head while hanging upside down. The two parted ways in 2021 when Sanchez paid Fabia<\/a> $100,000 for his “freedom.” The transaction was filmed and posted online.<\/p>\n Following his arrest on Friday, Sanchez’s representative, Ricky Kottenstette, told MMA Fighting that he has been struggling with substance abuse and went into rehabilitation on several occasions to seek treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former UFC fighter Diego Sanchez was arrested on two gun-related charges and is in custody in Albuquerque, New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[5773,64,63,5777,5771,786,785,5772,5774,5776,85,787,5775],"class_list":["post-4013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-albuquerque","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-clay-guida","tag-diego-sanchez","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-mma-fighting","tag-new-mexico","tag-shooting-a-gun","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-hall-of-fame"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}