"Evolving With The Changes!"

All my readers must know by now that I get Google notices on everything written on MMA.

I don't think of reading all the available articles written by sportswriters as being a rip off or form of copying other's ideas.

What I try to do is find another way of looking at something that is on everyone else's mind or putting a different slant on a current concern.

Just now I read an article on a site I had never visited before. It did not list an author, or give credit for the photo, which I have copied here, which is why I am not citing either. I will say that I hope to return to MMAFIGHT.com and search for more tidbits in the future.

Diego "Nightmare" Sanchez is my grandson's favorite UFC fighter. I have turned Cody and his many friends on to Georges St-Pierre, but Diego was his original MMA hero.

After reading the article, "Diego Sanchez on Cutting Weight for his UFC 107 fight with BJ Penn," I became fascinated with the quote attributed to Diego. "Every fight is different and the camps change, everything is always changing, and here I am evolving with the change!"

Now that sounds like what I would have advised BJ Penn to do long before he fought Georges St-Pierre. "Evolve."

There exist some fighters that buy too heavily into their own hype to the point that they actually begin to believe it.

This is a dangerous thing for even a fighter who is at the top of his game to do. For instance, if you become known as being "the Prodigy." for example, you might begin to believe that you have everything it takes to win fights, and slack off on your diet and training routines.

Slacking off in any aspect will not improve an individual fighter's chance of becoming a champion and ruling a division.

The bar has been raised to such a high level now, that only going beyond the bounds of human limits, will any fighter be able to survive among the new upcoming warriors. When one does not evolve with the changes, one becomes irrelevant in the sport.

Ask BJ Penn about this. Since he has gotten a new "no mercy" trainer, I am sure he will vouch for this as being true.

In MMA, one cannot slack off. Upping the ante is the only way to challenge oneself to train hard enough to evolve with the "new and improved" crowd.

There are many new "GSP models" popping up in the UFC and they do not know the meaning of "quit" or "enough."

Apparently, Diego Sanchez is one of the newest converts to this discipline.

Diego has always had a spiritual nature and tries to be "at one with the spirit." He has known many changes in his young life.

From changing camps to his current change in weight divisions, Diego is very serious in evolving and trying to become a new and improved version of himself. The old version was not all that bad, but the new version is becoming truly incredible.

When Diego met Clay Guida in his last fight, I, like others, wondered if the weight cut would have an adverse affect on his performance.

Since I already knew what a powerhouse the Carpenter was, I was suspecting a lack of cardio, the new MMA slang for stamina, as I watched the fight progress.

Diego was equal to the task, and won the decision, after opening up a large gash on Clays head. It was not a pretty fight, what with blood and sweat flying, but it was full of action and excitement start to finish.

From watching him fight Clay, I can see Diego offering BJ quite a challenge. The cardio was there, the determination was not lacking, and neither was his strength affected by the weight cut, so I predict that Diego does have the secret to success and is in the process of evolving.

All I can say is that BJ Penn had better beware of the change that is coming...it could be his worst "nightmare" yet.

Diego Sanchez is on the prowl...and he is hungry!