{"id":764517,"date":"2026-06-27T21:53:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T21:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/764517\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T21:53:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T21:53:16","slug":"joe-lauzon-signs-with-bkfc-after-27-fight-ufc-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/764517\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Lauzon signs with BKFC after 27-fight UFC run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former UFC <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/division\/lightweight\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lightweight<\/a> Joe Lauzon has signed with Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship after nearly two decades with the promotion, per Sherdog.<\/p>\n<p>The 42-year-old Massachusetts native, who debuted at UFC 63 in 2006 with a 48-second knockout of Jens Pulver, left the organization following a contract lapse or release. Lauzon is expected to appear at BKFC 92 at Fenway Park in Boston on Aug. 29, where <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/division\/featherweight\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">featherweight<\/a> champion Kai Stewart defends against Harry Gigliotti in the main event.<\/p>\n<p>Lauzon&#8217;s bonus-collecting UFC career<\/p>\n<p>Lauzon never challenged for a <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/division\/lightweight\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lightweight<\/a> title but earned 15 post-fight bonuses during his run, including a double-bonus night when he submitted Jamie Varner in 2012. The Brockton product last competed in the Octagon in 2019, stopping Jonathan Pearce in 93 seconds in front of a home crowd to snap a three-fight skid.<\/p>\n<p>A planned 2022 bout against <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/fighter\/donald-cerrone\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Cerrone<\/a> fell apart twice due to Cerrone&#8217;s illness and Lauzon&#8217;s knee injury. Lauzon said after the Pearce win that he was ready to retire unless the right fight came along, and he remained in the UFC&#8217;s drug testing pool in case he wanted to return.<\/p>\n<p>BKFC 92 marks the promotion&#8217;s first event at a Major League Baseball stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"image-credit\">Photo: Stephen McGinnis \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:JLauzon.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a>, Public domain<\/p>\n<p class=\"sources-heading\">Original reporting:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former UFC lightweight Joe Lauzon has signed with Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship after nearly two decades with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":764518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-764517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=764517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/764518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}