The newest 155er

Diego Sanchez has dropped from his welterweight home to the 155lb division. A division already stacked with talent, not to mention aggressive wrestlers with cardio. Sanchez has been known as an aggressive fighter who gets the takedown and ground and pounds and if he'll feels like being nice, will just choke you so you can tap and go home.

The problem at welterweight was when he hit AKA's wrestling roadblocks in Kos and Fitch. Deprived of his normal wrestling advantage, Diego dropped decisions to both fighters, although in very different fights. Koschek was content to feed Diego a steady diet of right hands while Fitch used an apparent size and strength advantage to stay in dominant position throughout their 3 round encounter.

Now Diego moves to a division where fighters like Sherk, Griffin, Maynard, Edgar and for his first fight Stevenson posses the same attributes that resulted in the two decision losses at welterweight. The cut in weight could give him a size advantage but depending on how his body takes it, he may not have the gas he's had at welterweight.

It will be interesting to see if Diego can transfer his aggressive wrestling style in a new division or if the similar talent there will prove to be a problem and result in some close split decisions against the many other wrestlers.

One exciting result of this move, who doesn't want to see a rematch with Kenny Florian? Florian was overwhelmed early their first match and made to look like he doesn't belong. He has since been a dominant contender, his only loss since his UFC debut against Diego coming to a 5 round decision loss to Sean Sherk. A second fight between Diego and Florian would certainly be a completely different story than the first.