Lauzon: Guillard’s kryptonite is submissions

Melvin The Young Assassin Guillard is believed to be one fight away from fighting for the title against the winner of Edgar vs. Maynard III this Saturday night, live from Houston on PPV.

Standing across the cage in that one fight, also on Saturday, is Joe “J-Lau” Lauzon. This will be Lauzon’s tenth fight in the UFC, and seven of his nine fights with the UFC have won “Fight of the Night” or “Submission of the Night” honors.

In a recent interview with MMAWeekly Radio Lauzon detailed his gameplan to get close to the flames.

All the pressure is on him from the start, Lauzon said. Going into this fight, he’s the betting favorite, he’s the favorite in this fight. He’s the guy coming off five-to-six wins; he’s the guy pining away for a title shot, the guy calling himself the champ. All the pressure is on him.

If I go out there and lose the fight, well you know what, Melvin was supposed to beat me, but there is a huge upside in the fact that I could go out there and win. For him, it’s all downside. He’s supposed to beat me, but I think I’m always dangerous, I’m always a submission threat, so it’s a tough fight for him too, especially when his kryptonite has always been submissions.

There’s no better way to get knocked out than to be scared to punch and just shoot from too far away. It’s how close can you put the hand to the flame before you get burned and that’s going to be thing with Melvin. We’re not going to shoot from a mile away; we’re going to have to make our way in and deal with him like that.

The last time that, that was the game plan was back at the Pulver fight. A guy that was thought to have much better stand-up than me and we’re going to look to throw a couple of punches and get inside because we’re worried about the power and then we ended up knocking him out. I did a lot of boxing, I did a lot of wrestling, and I did a lot of jiu-jitsu, so wherever the fight goes, I’m going to be ready to go.

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