The first new of this broke during a interview that Dan did with the Boston Herald, where he said his team abandoned him only weeks before his fight against Escudero.
“This is going to be the first fight I don’t have them in my corner,” Dan Lauzon said last week. “They’re not going to be there to support me. It (stinks). I don’t really know what I did to deserve this. I wouldn’t do that to anybody. I wouldn’t do that to my brother, I wouldn’t do that to anyone in my gym. It’s not right.”
“I think I’m going to be pretty much looking for a new gym and new coaches to train with,” he said. “People I can actually count on and rely on and not somebody that’s going to halfway through a camp say, ’Hey sorry, you’re going out there alone, good luck.’ ”
Since then Lauzon has found a new corner for his UFC 114 fight, WEC fighter John Grispi, John Clarke and Brandon Chase.
Joe Lauzon also responded to Dan’s interview and explained that his brother hurt himself by not taking his upcoming fight with Escudero seriously. Joe went on to explain that Dan was given a ultimatum by their team 11 weeks before his fight, a commitment that he did not fulfill.
“He trained better than he did before (the ultimatum), but he still didn’t fulfill everything we wanted him to do,” Joe Lauzon said. “We said you need to train 10 or 11 times a week, and he didn’t do that. I don’t think he’s done that one time.”
Joe also went on to explain that no one in his team wanted hurt Dan, but said he needed to be more professional when training for a fight.
“We’ve always been there with him and we’ve always stuck by him, but he’s not helping himself,” Joe Lauzon said. “Hopefully this makes him turn it around and realize that he has to be professional about it and do the right thing.”
Dan also said he is not laying down the ground work for an excuse and he intends on fighting to his fullest potential, but still was caught off guard by his trainers decision not to train him.
“Don’t think I’m laying down for this fight and I’m not looking forward to the fight,” Dan Lauzon said. “I’m definitely looking forward to the fight. I’m going in there and I’m going to fight, but it just (stinks). It’s not the way I wanted everything to happen for this fight going into it.”
Dan also went on to say that he was hurt then mad by his teams decision.
“They were saying to me, ’I understand that you’re mad at us,’ ” Dan Lauzon said. “I told them, ’I’m not mad. I’m hurt.’
“Joe Pomfret is somebody I look at like a father, and he is going to do this to me? You’re going to tell me you can’t (work my corner) and you’re sending me out to Vegas alone for one of my biggest fights?
“I was completely hurt by it, especially my brother Joe. I don’t think anybody would ever do that to their brother. I can’t think of anyone else that would ever do that to their brother and just tell them, ’Hey, you’re on your own.’ ”
In a statement on his personal website, Joe Lauzon went on to write that he did not want his brother to take this personal, but intended to teach him a lesson that he cannot expect to be a professional fighter without training the right way. Joe went on to say that Dan no longer has the fire in him to train and does not show up to the gym when he is not scheduled for a fight.
Hopefully, the Lauzon brothers can both learn from this experience and grow as fighters.
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