Concussed By Angry Training Partner
While training for a fight with Matt Brown in 2017, Sanchez got into an altercation with a new recruit at the Jackson-Wink gym.
Reportedly the French grappler he was sparring with became so angry that he sucker-punched Sanchez, leaving him with a bad cut to his nose.
Worse still, Sanchez felt concussion-like symptoms afterwards, saying that, “I felt a little cognitive decline; I felt my short-term memory was a little off.”
It’s worth bearing in mind that this came just a few months after Sanchez was KO’d for the first time in his career against Al Iaquinta and so understandably he was concerned about the possibility of traumatic brain injury.
Nevertheless, with Christmas coming up, Sanchez decided to still fight Brown, which proved to be a bad choice as he’d be KO’d in the first round.
