Joe Lauzon is fighting in Boston again, this time at the most historic ballpark in Major League Baseball.<\/p>\n
Promotional officials announced on Friday that Lauzon, a veteran of 27 UFC fights, has signed a multi-fight deal with BKFC. The Massachusetts native debuts at BKFC 92 on Aug. 29 at Fenway Park.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe thing that got me really excited was fighting at Fenway Park,\u201d Lauzon said in a relase. \u201cI\u2019ve fought in Boston before and I fought at TD Garden, but there\u2019s something special about competing on the field at Fenway. I grew up a Red Sox fan, played baseball as a kid, and watched the Red Sox win the World Series while I was in college. To have the chance to fight there is pretty incredible.<\/p>\n
\u201cBoston has always shown up for me. Every time I\u2019ve fought there, my friends, family, and supporters have packed the building. I can\u2019t wait to experience that again. There aren\u2019t many venues more iconic than Fenway Park. Getting to fight there is something I\u2019ll remember forever.\u201d<\/p>\n
An opponent for Lauzon will be announced at a later date.<\/p>\n
Lauzon hasn\u2019t competed in a combat sports bout in nearly seven years, picking up a 93 second TKO win over Jonathan Pearce at UFC Boston in October 2019. Lauzon was booked to fight Donald Cerrone on three separate occasions following that bout, but all of them fell through for a variety of reasons. The 42-year-old competed on season five of The Ultimate Fighter, but has one of the most memorable octagon debuts in UFC history with a short-notice, 48 second knockout of former lightweight champ Jens Pulver at UFC 63 in September 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joe Lauzon is fighting in Boston again, this time at the most historic ballpark in Major League Baseball.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":763569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[33307,42718,49,48,641,701,638,82,640,702],"class_list":["post-763568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-bkfc","tag-bkfc-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=763568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}