I will be at the Arnold Sports Festival this weekend. It’s a huge sports and bodybuilding expo with a ton of different competitions from Jiu-JItsu to Cheerleading to Dance. I will be signing autographs at the UFC booth at the Arnold Fitness EXPO, in the main hall of the Greater Columbus Convention Center, on Friday from 11am to 2pm, and on Saturday from 10am to 12pm.

This is a video that I shot for Tri-Coasta.com when I went out to LA for an expo.

Here is some video I shot at the UFC Fan Expo. The SpikeTV booth was ridiculous and was two stories tall, so we waited around upstairs to do the signing. Place was nuts!

Taken from: http://www.wickedlocal.com/raynham/sports/x1885887291/Bridgewater-MMA-fighter-Joe-Lauzon-eyes-return-to-ring-in-09

UFC lightweight title contender and Bridgewater native Joe Lauzon does not rattle easily.

Just 11 days after an electrifying second-round armbar submission victory over Jeremy Stephens to headline SpikeTv’s Fight Night 17 on Feb. 7, Lauzon’s (18-4, 5 KOs, 13 subs) possible title hopes were put on hold when he suffered a torn ACL that forced him to undergo surgery. (continue reading…)

I always get to the airport way early so I don’t miss my flight…. so here I am. My plane is supposed to leave in about an hour, so it shouldn’t be too bad. I am going to Vegas for UFC100 and the UFC Fan Expo. It should be a great time weekend all the way around. I talked with Matt Arroyo earlier this week so I will hopefully meet up with him and get to do some light training. Going to meet up with “Grandpa” Tony Blauer at some point, most likely for some double doubles because we are both fat kids at heart. I talked to Noah Thomas last night too and he is apparently out there for a few days too. (continue reading…)

We got a lot of great feedback when I posted we were looking for sponsors. Unfortunately we were looking for more than most people were willing to spend and we don’t want to leave anyone out. I talked with my agent and we came up with a package that should work for everyone and should get some good exposure for you.

We are going to put 15 or so sponsors on the back of my shirt like this…

We will be wearing this shirt at the weigh-ins, for my walk to the cage the night of the fight, and after the fight. We are offering to put your company name or logo on the back… and we will also ship you the same shirt that my corners and I are wearing. If you follow me on myspace, on my site or anywhere else, you know we take a ton of pictures and get a lot of exposure. This time being the main event, it will be even more ridiculous.

Pricing works like this…. it costs $750 for the top two rows and $595 for every row below that. Is it going to look a little bit like NASCAR? Yes. But you are getting in for a much cheaper price than we could normally afford and we are looking out for the smaller companies that couldn’t afford it otherwise.

If this is something you would be interested in, email Sponsors@JoeLauzon.com and my agent Dean will work out all of the details with you.

Thanks guys,
Joe

We are still looking for sponsors for my upcoming MAIN EVENT fight at the Ultimate Fight Night.

If you are interested in getting exposure, you should email Sponsors@joelauzon.com. Passing the word on to anyone you know that might be interested is appreciated as well. Thanks guys, Joe

Conventional wisdom is that winning a season of the Ultimate Fighting Championship and Spike TV reality show competition, The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) changes a fighter’s life. The six figure contract, endorsements and television exposure are all typical by products of that success.

But it may end up being that the fighter whose life changes the most as a result of the fifth and most recent season of the series will be semifinalist Joe Lauzon. A member of pound for pound mixed martial arts (MMA) great BJ Penn’s team on TUF 5, the prodigiously talented and hardnosed Lauzon earned the respect of his Hawaiian coaches to the point that Penn encouraged and invited the young Massachusetts native to give up his day job and move to Hawaii to train full time with him. Click Here to Read More

There are a couple different views that someone can have based on those 6 weeks we were in that house. There is seeing everything that happened with Team Penn, everything that happened with Team Pulver, and then what the viewers see which is just a little bit of each side. I was fortunate enough to see everything that happened with Team Penn, and then now I am seeing some of the gaps filled in with Team Pulver. I don’t think anyone on Team Penn knew about the issues Brandon was going through. At the time, we didn’t know about his hand and we definitely didn’t know about the problems he was having with Jens. There were times when Brandon seemed really pissed off around the house, but I just always assumed it was from trying to keep his weight down.

One day in practice, BJ and Gray were sparring pretty hard. They are both out there trying to kill one another and really going back and forth. I think Gray got a scratch on his nose that was bleeding, and Rudy wanted to stop it but Gray is like "No no no… I am good keep going!" So they kept going back and forth. It was definitely getting more competitive between them and it was a little beyond the scope of where it started. It escalated, but it was a good escalation. I was a little taken back though…. because BJ is up on this level above and beyond anything I had ever experienced…. and then there is Gray giving him all kinds of trouble. I’m sure BJ could have really poured it on and taken control, but I was just like "Wow… Gray is an animal".

We had "Captain America" Randy Couture come in as a guest coach for the day. He showed us all kinds of great stuff, and it was amazing being able to work out with him. Until you lock up with Randy, you really have no idea how dense and skilled he is. I had a huge amount of respect for him, but it jumped up so much after working with him. I actually got to drill takedowns and throw Randy Couture. Did he let me? 100%. But I will leave that part out. "So uh… I threw Randy Couture from the clinch. No big deal." I’m going to start using that line. Regardless, who else can say they got to work Greco with Randy for a few hours? It was great for Gray too, because Randy is his normal trainer and coach. So seeing someone familiar when you are alone and cut off was great for his spirits, and in turn that raised all of ours. When Randy walked in, it was like seeing Gray on Christmas when he got his first pair of wrestling shoes.

Brandon had a tough time cutting weight, but Wang was there to help him through it all. I’m sure Andy has been catching a lot of aggravation about how his fight went down and being kicked off Team Penn, but you really get to see who Andy is in this episode. Here is a guy that was eliminated from the competition and he is doing everything in his power to help that same guy make weight for his next fight. Wang could have been bitter or upset about losing, but instead he is committed to helping Brandon. Thats the kind of team mate you want with you when you are cutting weight and it starts getting tough.

The fight between Brandon and Gray seemed a lot closer when it was happening. I still think the fight was very competitive, but I was in shock when Brandon was getting back to his feet over and over. I think everyone on Team Penn expected Gray to take him down and keep him there for the rest of the fight, but Brandon surprised us all. In the end though, Gray kept taking him down over and over and showed how much of a work horse he is the drive that carried him in wrestling. Brandon seemed to fatigue as the fight went out which I am sure had a lot to do with cutting so much weight. The pace of the fight was real fast too, but you can’t cut that much weight and expect to carry a pace like that for very long. While trying to get back to his feet Brandon left his neck exposed and Gray took advantage of it. As Manny said though, "That was a crazy ass fight, bro".