{"id":763858,"date":"2026-06-27T03:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T03:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/763858\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T03:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T03:24:09","slug":"bad-decision-former-ufc-veteran-joe-lauzon-inks-deals-with-bkfc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/763858\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Decision? Former UFC Veteran Joe Lauzon Inks Deals With BKFC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) veteran Joe Lauzon has inked a new deal with Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship (BKFC) to debut on the promotion\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/bare-knuckle-boxing-results-rules-ppv\/452609\/going-going-gone-bkfc-92-officially-set-for-historic-fenway-park-in-boston-on-aug-29\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">upcoming BKFC 92 fight card<\/a> on Aug. 29 from Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">While Lauzon is from the Massachusetts area and should attract some extra attention locally, the former UFC fighter hasn\u2019t competed in any form of combat sports since a surprising TKO victory over Jonathan Pearce all the way back in 2019. That was under the UFC banner, but almost seven years ago. It\u2019s unknown at this time what Lauzon has left in the tank (if anything).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">What makes the signing even more strange is the fact that Lauzon is a grappling-heavy fighter. The UFC veteran may have some knockouts under his belt, but he\u2019s a submission artist at heart. In fact, 17 out of Lauzon\u2019s 28 career MMA wins have come by way of submission. He was never considered a dangerous striker or even someone who can do a lot of damage with his hands. It\u2019s a little odd that Lauzon would return to combat sports after such a long layoff and under the BKFC banner to boot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">All of that said, Lauzon will have a chance to prove his doubters wrong when BKFC rolls out their upcoming event at Fenway Park this summer. The promotion announced Lauzon\u2019s addition to the card earlier today, but no opponent was named.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) veteran Joe Lauzon has inked a new deal with Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":763859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[29053,49,48,641,33601,638,82,702],"class_list":["post-763858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-bare-knuckle-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763858","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=763858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}