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Originally Posted by TapOut10
I understand what your saying about the Lightweight division being deep. But, I believe you are mistaken when you say that is the only way Lauzon will become champ. I have never seen the UFC give out non deserving title shots...so if he has the chance at the title hed deserve it. Joe Lauzon would be well prepared for it. He can pull out marginal upsets because he is a great fighter. Beating Jens Pulver was no fluke, Joe fights with a crazy amount of agression.
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The title shot would not be the undeserving fight, the #1 contender fight would be. It would be like the Gonzaga vs Cro Cop fight where they were wanting to put together a heavily marketale fight, Lauzon would be playing Gonzaga, the spoiler so that would be the undeserving title shot setip fight. If he were to pull out the upset then sure he desrves the title shot but with how deep LW is I judt don't forsee Lauzon ever earning a title shot unless it is like the Gonzaga vs Cro Cop fight.
He is very aggressive but his standup is average at best and there are much better wrestlers than him at LW. He is young and has the potential to develop into something good but I dunno if he has the potential to develop into somethign great. As far as fighter intelligence, he is world class but as far as natural abilities, there are much better fighters than him.
while the win against Pulver was a surprise, it is still Pulver who is one of the more over rated fighters around whos most impressive wins are over Penn and Uno and in terms of his best win it is Penn but with there being such a big drop off in terms of quality of opponent in his second best win of his career (Uno) that tells us that he is in fact a very over rated fighter.
Lost to nearly every big name he has faced. Ludwig, Din Thomas, Gomi, Mach and Penn. I think his stats are comparable to that of Tito Ortiz', losing nearly all of the fights vs world class opposition.