UFC star since winning the first season of the “Ultimate Fighter” reality show, American Diego Sanchez should be Roan “Jucao” Carneiro’s next adversary. According to the site MMAJunkie, the information was provided by Sanchez himself in a message on personal networking site MySpace. According to the fighter, the battle should take place at UFC 82, to take place on March 1, in Columbus, Ohio.
Undefeated in the first 17 fights of his career, Diego Sanchez has accumulated 2 losses in his last two bouts, to Josh Koscheck and Jon Fitch. Jucao, on his part, is coming off a win over Peruvian Tony de Souza at UFC 79 and was officially announced last week as a reinforcement at American Top Team.
For the time being there is no confirmation from the UFC organization, but stay tuned to GRACIEMAG.com and we will soon be back with further information.