Sanchez spoke out about torture at the hands of his former coach

American mixed martial arts veteran and former UFC fighter Diego Sanchez told the unexpected story of his departure from the promotion.

"Joshua Fabia manipulated me, blackmailed me, extorted money from me and ultimately ended my career in the UFC. I did business with this psychopath for 3-4 years. I paid him money to get out of my life because the situation had gotten so bleak that there was no other way out.

I was doing business with a mentally unstable sociopathic psychopath. That's the simplest way I can describe this man. He manipulated me because he is a former hit man, an employee of criminal cartels. There was so much darkness in this guy that I feared for my life, for the lives of my daughter, my mother and even my mother's daughter," Sanchez wrote on Instagram.

Recall that Sanchez competed in the world's leading MMA promotion from 2004 to 2020.