{"id":564762,"date":"2026-03-27T17:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T17:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/564762\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T17:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T17:21:08","slug":"ex-ufc-fighter-diego-sanchez-gets-5-years-probation-on-gun-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/564762\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-UFC fighter Diego Sanchez gets 5 years probation on gun charge"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Brett OkamotoMar 27, 2026, 12:08 PM ET<\/p>\n

Close<\/a>Brett Okamoto has reported on mixed martial arts and boxing at ESPN since 2010. He has covered all of the biggest events in combat sports during that time, including in-depth interviews and features with names such as Dana White, Khabib Nurmagomedov, Conor McGregor, Nate Diaz, Floyd Mayweather, Manny Pacquiao and Georges St-Pierre. He was also a producer on the 30 for 30 film: “Chuck and Tito,” which looked back at the careers and rivalry of Chuck Liddell and Tito Ortiz. He lives in Las Vegas, and is an avid, below-average golfer in his spare time.<\/p>\n

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Retired UFC fighter Diego Sanchez<\/a> was sentenced to five years of supervised probation on Thursday, after pleading guilty to a felony gun charge dating back to last year.<\/p>\n

Sanchez, 44, was arrested in July 2025<\/a> in Albuquerque, New Mexico, after police said he fired a gun into the air from the inside of a Jeep as it was passing a motor vehicle accident. Sanchez, who told the court he has been working on his sobriety and mental health, took responsibility for his actions. According to a report by KOB 4 in Albuquerque, prosecutors had pushed for a two-year prison sentence.<\/p>\n

“People do make mistakes,” Sanchez said. “This is Albuquerque, the wild wild west. I made a bad mistake.”<\/p>\n

Sanchez rose to fame in the UFC in 2004, as the winner of the first season of The Ultimate Fighter. He fought for a UFC championship in 2009 and the UFC inducted his fight against Clay Guida<\/a> in 2009 into its Hall of Fame. He was released by the promotion in 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brett OkamotoMar 27, 2026, 12:08 PM ET CloseBrett Okamoto has reported on mixed martial arts and boxing at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":["post-564762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}