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UFC veteran Joe Lauzon is currently gearing up for his upcoming ‘UFC Fight Night: Nashville’ scrap<\/a> on April 22nd against Stevie Ray. For Lauzon, one of fight fan’s favorite fighters to watch, he will be looking to build on his controversial split decision win over Marcin Held<\/a> earlier this year, which saw him rebound from a split decision loss to Jim Miller back in August of 2016 at ‘UFC Fight Night: Vancouver’.<\/p>\n

Ahead of Lauzon’s fight with Ray, he spoke to MMAJunkie<\/a> about the upcoming return of former welterweight kingpin Georges St. Pierre<\/a>, and why he feels BJ Penn is actually arguably the greatest fighter of all time (GOAT):<\/p>\n

\"bj<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s had a lot of fights where he didn\u2019t come out looking so great, but he\u2019s also one of the only guys that would go and jump up one, two or three weight classes and bounce all around and do all kinds of stuff,\u201d Lauzon said. \u201cI think that is super impressive. I think it\u2019s B.J. There are some other guys who have been really dominant in their weight class, but they don\u2019t really leave their weight class.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think \u2018GSP\u2019 was awesome. I think (UFC flyweight champ) Demetrious Johnson is great \u2013 he just seems unstoppable. But I don\u2019t know \u2013 I guess, (if) Demetrious Johnson was bouncing around like B.J. was, I don\u2019t think he would do as well. If he tried to jump up two or three weight classes, I don\u2019t think he\u2019d do as well. You\u2019re going to lose fights here and there. But there are so many great fighters you can say are the \u2018G.O.A.T.\u2019 and they\u2019d all be credible answers.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Michael<\/p>\n

St-Pierre is of course gearing up for his upcoming middleweight showdown with champion Michael Bisping later this year.<\/p>\n

This article first appeared on BJPenn.com<\/a> on 3\/25\/2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UFC veteran Joe Lauzon is currently gearing up for his upcoming ‘UFC Fight Night: Nashville’ scrap on April 22nd against Stevie Ray. 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