UFC commentator Brendan Fitzgerald sheds light on ‘weird’ Joshua Fabia incident after Diego Sanchez gets cut
- ‘I was in that room and it was awkward. It seemed really out of place,’ Fitzgerald says of production meeting argument with Sanchez’s ‘self-awareness’ coach
- ‘To talk about how good he is and everybody else is wrong. That’s not what we do. We kinda call it like how we see it’
Joshua Fabia has not made many friends since he entered the MMA space.
Many well-known figures are blaming the School of Self Awareness founder for mishandling Diego Sanchez’s career – in the past week, UFC president Dana White and former champions Rashad Evans and Michael Bisping have all slammed Fabia.
The 39-year-old “Nightmare” Sanchez released a video, which has since been deleted, on his personal Instagram account, showing a production meeting with the UFC commentating team on Fight Island in Abu Dhabi. This encounter did not help “spiritual awareness coach” Fabia’s public perception, nor Sanchez’s.
“I don’t think it’s Diego doing it,” UFC commentator Brendan Fitzgerald told SCMP MMA. “I think it’s Josh Fabia doing it. It’s getting his name out there. And some people, they don’t care how they get their name out there. Does he look bad in his own eyes? Probably not. Probably thinking he looked good. And he’s probably trying to take down the UFC or whatever.
“It’s a weird situation. I was in that room on Fight Island and it was awkward. It seemed just really out of place. Almost seemed like he was asking for us to defend him. When people on YouTube, MMA media in general, if they took shots at him, he thought it was on our broadcast team to defend him.
“To talk about how good he is and everybody else is wrong. That’s not what we do. We kinda call it like how we see it. We talk about training and coaches if it’s relevant to the story.”
