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Lauzon: Criticism of Aldo not warranted

Joe Lauzon: “I think that was people complaining that don’t know what’s going on. People who have never really trained.”

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Chris Palmquist
July 23, 2015 · 1 min read
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Jose Aldo received a lot of criticism for pulling out of UFC 189 with a rib injury, but one guy coming to his defense is UFC lightweight Joe Lauzon:

I thought it was completely unfair, Lauzon told MMAjunkie Radio. I think that was people complaining that don’t know what’s going on. People who have never really trained. My last hard sparring session was on Saturday.

We spar hard. We have pretty much our hardest sparring sessions the last Saturday before. When Aldo was hurt that was the meat of his camp. That’s when you’re supposed to be sparring hard. You try to be as safe as possible. You try to have the best training partner you can, the safest training partners.

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