Lauzon vs. Gomi scheduled for UFC on FOX in July
Shortly following the announcement, Fox Sports caught up withJoe Lauzon who expressed his excitement to be fighting one of the sports’s legends in Takanori Gomi.
Today the UFC announced and made official an exciting bout in the lightweight division for UFC on FOX in Chicago: Joe Lauzon vs. Takanori Gomi:
MMA fans will get a matchup they won’t soon forget on July 25, when the UFC’s all-time bonus king, Joe Lauzon, takes on “The Fireball Kid,” former PRIDE champion Takanori Gomi, in a lightweight battle at United Center in Chicago.
Shortly following the announcement, Fox Sports caught up with Lauzon who expressed his excitement to be fighting one of the sports’s legends:
“I knew I wanted to take a little time off to rest my head because I definitely got rocked [in his last fight, a UFC 183 TKO loss to Al Iaquinta]. A couple months ago I told [UFC matchmaker] Joe Silva that I wanted to fight in late June or early July. So, this is what I was hoping for. I’ve got a grappling match in early May, and then two months later, I have a fight.”
Lauzon, who has been feeling under the weather the past few days, may have initially thought that Silva was about to ask him to serve as a last-minute replacement when he saw the UFC executive’s number pop up on his phone. “I have been sick the last couple days, so I’ve been laying low,” he says.
“Then, Joe pops up on my phone and I thought, ‘here we go (laughs).’ My heart was racing. I picked up, he asked how I was doing, shooting the [expletive]. Then, he told me he had a great fight for me. ‘Two fan favorites,’ he said. ‘You and Takanori Gomi.’ I said, ‘that’s awesome.'”