“I tried to do my best not to cry”- Joe Lauzon says he was devastated by the news of Donald Cerrone pulling out from their fight at UFC 274
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Donald Cerrone and Joe Lauzon
In what seemed to be his last dance, Donald Cerrone has been forced to pull out of his scheduled Pay-Per-View opener against fellow veteran Joe Lauzon. It was announced by the broadcast team during the early prelims, where Jon Anik clarified, “It is a non-covid related illness.”
According to Joe Rogan, Cowboy Cerrone suffered from food poisoning the night before causing him to throw up. Rogan said, “They think what might have happened is Donald ate something bad, because he was throwing up, he couldn’t keep his food down, he would feel terrible and they tried to give him time to recover” mentioning his conversation with Dr. David who confirmed the bout was a no-go.
It was believed that the bout against Lauzon, a fellow veteran with 43 fights to his name would have been much more favorable to Cerrone compared to his previous opponents who have all been either rising prospects or established contenders.
Related – Donald Cerrone is OUT of UFC 274 main card opening bout against Joe Lauzon
“It could have easily been a $250,000, $230,000 weekend”- Joe Lauzon was bummed out at the fact that he didn’t got a chance to secure that Fight of the Night bonus
Lauzon claimed he sacrificed a lot of things for this fight, and even though it’s nobody’s fault, he almost teared up when he heard the news. Talking to Ariel Helwani from The MMA Hour, he said, “I tried to do my best not to cry. Of course, I did cry a little bit. I was just so upset because all this effort that’s been put into this. We knew about this fight in the first week of February, it’s like a three-month camp.”
“I blew off family vacation. We cancelled vacation and I was like, ‘I promise we’ll go right after this fight.’ Then it gets moved from April 30 to May 7. Now it’s like, what do we do now? Are we going to fight in two weeks? Are we going to fight in six weeks? Are we going to fight in four months? Is the fight going to happen at all? There’s so many things thrown up in the air,” Joe added.
Lauzon says even though he is getting his show money, he isn’t satisfied by the way things turned out, “I think they’re going to give me my show money and I’ll get the Venum money,” Lauzon claimed.
“I think my show money is $74,000, so I’ll get $74,000 and I’ll get $21,000. I could have not trained and shown up and got kicked in the face and made $95,000. It wasn’t about that. It was about, I want to get that win money, I want to get that bonus money. It could have easily been a $250,000, $230,000 weekend.”
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