Joe Lauzon’s blessed news
After years, Joey Lauzon is now declared cured; he has some hearing issues, but he’s cured.
UFC lightweight Joe Lauzon’s son Joey was born with neuroblastoma, a form of pediatric cancer.
For this, I was f***ing helpless, said Joe to Chuck Mindenhall for MMA Fighting. There was nothing I could do to influence or change anything. You’re at the complete mercy of the disease, and that’s a really, really crappy feeling.
On January 12, Joey turned five; that milestone represents the greatest win of all. Joe and his wife recently got blessed news – again there has been no trace of cancer since Joey was six months old. After years, Joey is now declared cured. He has some hearing issues, but he’s cured.
Joe Lauzon is now 34, on a three-fight losing streak. Going into his last fight, Lauzon was thinking about the potential for retirement.
I thought, if I don’t win this fight maybe I should be done,” he said. “I didn’t win the fight, and I was like, f***… is this the end? Am I done?
Lauzon does not appear to be done for the most fundamental of reasons – his skills remain at the elite level, as he proves to himself every Saturday at Lauzon MMA.
All the best fighters in New England come to my gym every Saturday morning,” he explains. “They’re not my guys. I don’t claim them as my guys, I don’t corner them — well, I corner some of them — but everyone comes together. We all get together, we all train, we all make each other better. We have all the best guys. Cowboy was out here with guys like Mickey Gall, Joe Schilling, a couple of others guys. We have like 15 UFC guys out here every Saturday morning. … I go at all these guys and I do so f***ing well. I do so well against them. It sucks to do great against all these guys but I’m going to say I can’t fight.
I’ve seen some guys where they should have stopped eight fights ago and they’re still pushing it. I definitely don’t want to be that guy. I understand that my last few fights have not gone very well. I’m not delusional. … The results of the fights have to speak. I’m not giving up yet because if I give up at 34, when I’m 38 or 40, I’ll be like f***, why didn’t I give it a little bit longer?
I plan on fighting again. I think I’m 100 percent going to fight again. But, I’m not going to be a fool either. If in three months I’m crushing strength and conditioning and I’m still getting really, really tired and things just aren’t working my way and it’s not going the way I like. Then at that point I’ll pull the plug.