Who Is Diego Sanchez Hanging Out With?
by Brent Brookhouse on Feb 13, 2009 1:23 PM EST
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PrintSome of our readers who are savvy in Youtube trends may be aware of a man by the name of Dan Quinn. Quinn developed a bit of a cult following for his videos of bizarre rantings and ramblings about the effects of Stevia as a miracle cure for obesity, cancer, and all other diseases as well as it being able to power cars and be used as rocket fuel. A basic Google search will reveal that Stevia is a sugar substitute which does appear to potentially have some positive health benefits such as increasing insulin sensitivity in rats, but it doesn't make Quinn's videos any less bizarre.
I came across Dan's videos yesterday when doing some research on Ross Clifton for tonight's Wargods show. Clifton is a friend of Dan and in one video they ramble on for ten minutes about kicking ass and being awesome. While just scrolling through his videos I realized that the guy is a pro fighter who has a record of 4-4-1 with losses to Frank Mir, Carter Williams and Jason Lambert. I then came across this gem:
This was posted two weeks ago. So it seems that Diego Sanchez is spending his time leading up to the Joe Stevenson fight hanging out with a guy who could at best be described as mentally disturbed (he spends one video talking about the government poisoning birds so that their poop will be tracked into our houses where our vacuums will turn the poison into a gas and kick off the second Holocaust). Diego claims that he is taking Stevia and it cured a lump on his girlfriend's breast.
Dan's story gets more interesting however. He played football for the University of Notre Dame where he was a linebacker. He was kicked off the team for fighting, picking up a sexual assault charge and using steroids. He also has picked up an attempted murder charge in 1991 which can be verified through the Miami-Dade Court Clerk website.
Obviously, if Diego is still training in the same way as normal this is likely not going to have a major impact. But hearing Diego say that he is "using Stevia" and that he thinks it will put him over the top against Joe Stevenson does trouble me somewhat. I know he has always been a bit of a "outside the box" thinker, but I seriously think that there is always a concern when a pro fighter a small amount of time from a major fight is A) hanging out with a strange crowd and B) using some sort of "miracle suplement" that is going to put them over the top. The video of Diego hanging out with Quinn is making me a little uneasy about this fight.
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oh lord
after hearing this shit and his trouble with getting the weight off…stevenson isn’t looking so such a bad pick…
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by DUGASWARRIOR on Feb 13, 2009 4:28 PM EST up reply actions
he spends one video talking about the government poisoning birds so that their poop will be tracked into our houses where our vacuums will turn the poison into a gas and kick off the second Holocaust
How can you write this little gem down and not link to the video in question. That’s just heartless.
"I see him beating Anderson Silva. I see him picking him apart. Him at a 131 years old...(trails off)." - Tito on Belfort at Affliction:DOR
I will have to track it down...but I'll link it up once I find it.
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by Brent Brookhouse on Feb 13, 2009 1:35 PM EST up reply actions
It is...
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by Brent Brookhouse on Feb 13, 2009 1:59 PM EST up reply actions
"Stevia. Is it included in the ignition system for the atom bomb"
awesome Quinn quote in that video. Say what?
You rule.
"I see him beating Anderson Silva. I see him picking him apart. Him at a 131 years old...(trails off)." - Tito on Belfort at Affliction:DOR
by Rundownloser on Feb 13, 2009 9:14 PM EST up reply actions
LOL, this is literally what some vagrant used to tell me when I worked in a downtown district and had to walk from the parking garage to my place of employment. He’d walk up next to me and start rambling about birds crapping and how it’s going to kill us all.
Nice to have a source of the ridiculousness of the claim.
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by Leland Roling on Feb 13, 2009 1:56 PM EST up reply actions
I am too lazy to go find it, but someone mentioned this in the comments on another article. Something about Deigo “using Stevia”. At the time I thought to my self, “I wonder what that is all about?” Now I know, thanks Brent.
Stevia alone...
isn’t troubling. But he talks about how he is using it to get the weight off..etc and I don’t like “miracle cures” to lose weight…especially for a fighter where it isn’t just “get rid of the fat, lardass!”
Stevia just seems like every other “completely unproven, potentially beneficial” thing out there. But the guy pushing it on Diego is a bit of an odd duck.
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by Brent Brookhouse on Feb 13, 2009 1:37 PM EST up reply actions
No wonder he’s been having trouble getting to 155.
"I see him beating Anderson Silva. I see him picking him apart. Him at a 131 years old...(trails off)." - Tito on Belfort at Affliction:DOR
by Rundownloser on Feb 13, 2009 1:45 PM EST up reply actions
About as effective as Scientology’s methods of getting people through rehab. Completely unproven, but just happens to have people who went through it and didn’t relapse.
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by Leland Roling on Feb 13, 2009 1:46 PM EST up reply actions
Solitary confinement and starvation is a one-two punch panacea!
"I see him beating Anderson Silva. I see him picking him apart. Him at a 131 years old...(trails off)." - Tito on Belfort at Affliction:DOR
by Rundownloser on Feb 13, 2009 1:47 PM EST up reply actions
I’ve read numerous reports about some of their therapies being absolutely bat shit out of this world. Some of the rehab facilities don’t even confine you or starve you. They do electro shock crap that does nothing, and other literally do all sorts of holistic bullshit food eating that isn’t proven at all. For some reason, people believe it works because some of these idiots actually get off the drugs because they are stuck in these places for like 6 months eating dog feces or whatever other crap they can cram down your throat.
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by Leland Roling on Feb 13, 2009 1:51 PM EST up reply actions
Yeah...
it’s like every other miracle diet (where you have to work out regularly) or miracle workout (where you have to be dieting hardcore). I’m sure it’s as much that people are having to change their lifestyle in addition to “mixing stevia with water” or snorting it as Quinn does in one video.
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by Brent Brookhouse on Feb 13, 2009 1:47 PM EST up reply actions
I prefer splenda...
stevia is fine to put in your tea or coffee, but like you say, there is more to this. They are not on low carb diets to drop some winter weight, they are training to fight. Training to prep for the cut. If he has trouble with the cut and he looks crappy then it is on him.
Quinn is quite seriously mentally ill. His bizarre YouTube videos aside, he is also currently on probation in Sacramento County for assault on a spouse or cohabitant (and he’s 41 and lives with his mother), thinks he has “the right hand of Zeus,” and some people have said he has fantasies about being touched by God. He also isn’t mentally fit to care for his children.
The man has videos where he calls out Joe Rogan so that Rogan will get Butterbean or Kimbo Slice to fight Quinn. What connection he believes Joe Rogan to have to Butterbean or Kimbo is not clear, but I believe he thinks Rogan somehow controls mixed martial arts. Or the universe.
He has another video where he talks about his “smart motherfucker” plan to kill someone he used to know. So he’s such a smart motherfucker that he put that video on the internet, while explaining that he had his mother call the police on someone because he didn’t want anyone to think he’s a “cop-caller.”
So those of you in the Sacramento area, be psyched that this dude is a part of your community!
"I was trying to rob him. And he took my gun from me. And the gun was full of blanks. And he shot a blank into my eye. And now I cannot see from this eye ever again, the doctors say."
"Well to be honest it sounds like it's all your fault."
Nice work, Brookhouse.
People are going to start talking. Bloggers aren’t supposed to do investigative work.
Diego is rather out there, and this doesn’t surprise me that much. Look at all the freaking morons touting Scientology. Scientology, the cult of morons who extort businesses, intimidate people, and are generally mafia-esque.
It’s funny how people follow a “religion” that was completely banned in other countries, and Hubbard himself has all sorts of quotes plastered all over the place stating that to make a lot of money, simply “start a religion”. LOL, that’s the base belief? Wow… just wow.
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This is good shit.
Seriously Brent…I love your work. Everybody loves freak shows…….and freak shows along with mma is like heaven. Sanchez and Quinn are made for each other and you are deliverin’ the news. On a side note…..I had no idea what “stevia” was but knew that I recognized the name from somewhere…..so I hunted around my kitchen and realized that my crazy wife has just started taking this shit as a sugar substitute. If I tell her that her loverboy Diego swears by it then she will probably go out and buy shares in Quinn’s whack business. Better keep this quiet
If someone has the transcript for the UFC 95 conference call, I believe Diego also goes into detail on some of the other diets he’s tried in the past. To put it mildly, they’re bizarre. Diego has always been weird, so I don’t think this latest instance with the Quinn/stevia connection is that out of the norm for Diego.
I want to be clear...
that I didn’t post this to be a “point and laugh at Dan Quinn” thing. The guy is legitimately troubled. I just think the diego involvement with him is troubling. This is a guy who has used steroids, raped, attempted to murder, and who is very clearly unbalanced. Not the kind of guy I’d like to see a high level MMA guy hanging out with…let alone taking advice from this close to fight time.
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by Brent Brookhouse on Feb 13, 2009 1:58 PM EST reply actions
Hold on, wait, wait, wait, stop the presses ...
… you’re saying Diego Sanchez is fucking crazy?
I never got that impression when he was standing outside in a lightning storm drawing strength from the weather.
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by The Kittitas Kid on Feb 13, 2009 1:58 PM EST reply actions
My uncle
started going bald. He starts taking Stevia and BAMMMM, he’s rockin a fohawk and benching 300 now. No lie…
Mike Goldberg: "You know Joe, When Matt and his brother Mark Hughes were growing up, they would pound each other behind the barn."
No lie...
…except for the part that is? ;)
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by Brent Brookhouse on Feb 13, 2009 2:24 PM EST up reply actions
Yup
I forgot the “:P” at the end, damnit! lol
Mike Goldberg: "You know Joe, When Matt and his brother Mark Hughes were growing up, they would pound each other behind the barn."
by xFenixKnightx on Feb 13, 2009 2:42 PM EST up reply actions
I started taking that shit
And my penis tripled in size. I mean, it doesn’t work anymore, but that fact remains…
Interesting, 2-3 Viagras might liven him up…
Mike Goldberg: "You know Joe, When Matt and his brother Mark Hughes were growing up, they would pound each other behind the barn."
by xFenixKnightx on Feb 13, 2009 3:34 PM EST up reply actions
Quinn and Sanchez interview
Surely I’m not the only one who heard that wacked out interview with Quinn and Diego on at the same time?!? It was on Carson’s Corner last week. Carson should be ashamed of himself for exploiting Quinn, imo. The guy is seriously disturbed.
Anyway, they were on together and it’s very clear that Diego and Dan Quinn are friends of a sort.
Embeded it after the jump… it’s episode 3 at the 6 min mark.
“I’m on stevia and I’m in the best shape of my life”
"I’m on stevia and I’m in the best shape of my life"
Yikes! Those are some words I never thought I’d hear.
Shocking...
that you’d be in the best shape of your life while cutting down 15 lbs and training for a main event for the biggest promotion in the world. It really blows my mind that Stevia could do this!
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by Brent Brookhouse on Feb 13, 2009 2:50 PM EST up reply actions
Cutting birdshit will become the new
fad in MMA, along with the required amount of stevia rips that is. lol
I'm missing out...
I could be repackaging Splenda and making boatloads of money off dumbasses… damn this Quinn guy!
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by Leland Roling on Feb 16, 2009 5:18 PM EST up reply actions
oh, and.....
Diego claims in the Carson interview that his girlfriend, Ali of UFC ring girl fame, “used” stevia to get rid of a lump in her breast that doctors couldn’t do anything with.
Yeah...
he says the same thing in the video in the article (I point it out right below the video also).
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by Brent Brookhouse on Feb 13, 2009 2:34 PM EST up reply actions
Dan Quinn should be on a 24 hour watch in a mental hospital somewhere. Diego’s a wiered dude also. Which leads to my next question, how in the hell did that dude get Ali Sonoma? Is she a little off too?
Has anyone else pointed out that:
In light of the new “Stevia” Sanchez, Diego may be training with Ross Clifton for his up-coming fight?
Be afraid Joe Daddy, be very, very afraid.
I am the bastard love child of Junie Browning and Diamond Dave Kaplan.
HA!
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by Brent Brookhouse on Feb 13, 2009 2:49 PM EST up reply actions
Stevia is just a naturally occuring no calorie sweetner. You can pick some up at Trader Joe’s. Not a miracle cure but if your a coffee drinker its a great sugar sub.
yeah...
I don’t see much pointing to anything being “wrong” with it. But the odd “this cures cancer and can be used as rocket fuel!” thing…is…I dunno.
Also, blending something with water and getting bubbles doesn’t mean you are “splitting” water.
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by Brent Brookhouse on Feb 13, 2009 2:59 PM EST up reply actions
re: blending in with water
Imagine if someone showed them what alka-seltzer can do in water!
by HenryMen on Feb 13, 2009 3:14 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
LOL
I bet they’d think the apocalypse was coming.
BTW, if anyone is wondering why this little miracle is approved by the FDA:
So...
According to this, he could be spermless with cancer and be weak. Sounds like a great thing to take excessively.
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by Leland Roling on Feb 16, 2009 5:22 PM EST up reply actions
yea I have never heard of it curing anything or fighting obesity for that matter (other then using it to replace sugar)
Here’s the thing: a pill to cure obesity would be SO FUCKING VALUABLE, that if stevia actually did that, every drug company and government in the industrialized world would be having gun battles in the street to own it. You wouldn’t be hearing about it from some random dude and buying it at the corner store; you’d be hearing about it from Pfizer and paying $80Gs per pill.
"I'm AJB and I endorse this nut-puncher."
“…is… I dunno.”
Let me help ya, Brent.
It’s fucking bat shit insane.
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by Leland Roling on Feb 16, 2009 5:19 PM EST up reply actions
This is par for the course for Diego
First time I noticed Diego was in the TUF house where his bed had to point north and his tai chi allowed him to harness the earth’s power or something to that effect.
On a different topic, the placebo effect has been documented scientifically in numerous studies to actually work. Our minds are more powerful than we may realize. So sugar substitute, drinking your own pee, magic crystals, hypnosis,prayer, or whatever. If you truly believe it works, you’re right.
Having said all that, yes Diego is a nut and Dan Quinn sounds mentally disturbed. FYI, there is another Dan Quinn who writes some decent philosophy/environmental fiction books (at least i think it’s a different guy)
Does anybody else see a resemblance
between Quinn and Junie Browning? Is it just me?
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