Joe Lauzon’s favorite fight: Couture dropping Sylvia
UFC.com’s Megan Olivi continues the My Favorite Fight series, with Joe Lauzon. The Octagon moment that jumps out in my…
UFC.com’s Megan Olivi continues the My Favorite Fight series, with Joe Lauzon.
The Octagon moment that jumps out in my mind more than any other fight is when Randy Couture fought Tim Sylvia.
A few events before the Couture-Sylvia fight I had made my UFC debut at UFC 63 and beat Jens Pulver. About a month later at the next event, my brother Dan came out and fought Spencer Fisher. My brother took the fight on about 10 days’ notice, and he lost.
Backstage after the fight, Tim was being a jerk and saying some really unnecessary things to my brother about his loss. He kind of kicked Dan when he was down. Tim went over to Dan and said Nice 2 minutes, ha ha, and walked away. After that I instantly named him my nemesis, and obviously I had this intense hatred for Tim Sylvia more than any other fighter on the planet.
So a few months later Randy and Tim fought at UFC 68, and we went over to my buddy Chris’ house to watch the fights with friends. Randy was supposed to be the wrestler and Tim Sylvia was supposed to be the elite striker. And there was Couture dropping Sylvia, just putting him on his butt right away.
When that happened, I jumped out of my chair. It’s actually probably the only time I’ve ever jumped out of my chair watching a fight. Randy was my hero from that point on.
Me and my brother Dan still talk about it to this day.
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