{"id":294707,"date":"2018-12-12T07:13:45","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T15:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=294707"},"modified":"2018-12-12T07:13:45","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T15:13:45","slug":"kevin-lee-plans-to-send-al-iaquinta-back-to-the-prelims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/kevin-lee\/kevin-lee-plans-to-send-al-iaquinta-back-to-the-prelims\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Lee plans to send Al Iaquinta back to the prelims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Through 20-career fights, Kevin Lee has only lost three times.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday at UFC on FOX 31, Lee will look to avenge one of those blemishes as he faces Al Iaquinta in a rematch. Lee was only 21-years-old when he suffered the first loss of his career to Iaquinta back at UFC 169. Losing by unanimous decision at the time, Lee not only plans to get his hand raised on Saturday, but he plans to send Iaquinta back to the preliminary portion of the card.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just feel like I\u2019m a completely different fighter from that [2014 fight] and I think anybody who watches that and then goes back and watches me in my recent years, you can just tell I\u2019m a different man than that.&#8221;\u00a0Lee told Luke Thomas on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2018\/12\/11\/18134833\/kevin-lee-feels-its-his-personal-duty-to-put-al-iaquinta-back-on-the-prelims\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The MMA Hour.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s got some good qualities probably, but we just are two different types of people,\u201d Lee added. \u201cWe\u2019ve crossed paths a couple times in these last years, and we\u2019re just two different [people]. He\u2019s that Jersey boy that\u2019s going to get drunk and f*ck up a hotel room, and I just don\u2019t think there\u2019s a \u2014 his voice shouldn\u2019t be no bigger than it already is, so I feel like it\u2019s my personal duty to get him up out of there and put him back on the prelims.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Lee (17-3) has won 10 of his last 13 fights, including a TKO victory over Edson Barboza at UFC Fight Night 128 in his last fight. The 26-year-old hasn&#8217;t gone the distance in a fight since Apr. 2016, finishing five of his last six opponents. The Xtreme Couture product believes fans will get their moneys worth in the main event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s got some things that I\u2019ve got to watch out for. Al\u2019s a tough guy, I\u2019m not going to take it away from him. I don\u2019t really like him, but I\u2019m going to respect his style and I\u2019m going to respect his skills. He could show up and he\u2019s never going to go away, and it\u2019s going to make for a damn good fight, so I\u2019ve made this training camp the hardest that it could possibly be because I know he\u2019s going to give me a good fight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Al Iaquinta (13-4-1) is coming off a unanimous decision loss to\u00a0Khabib Nurmagomedov at UFC 223, where he fought for the lightweight title on short-notice. The loss snapped the New York native&#8217;s five-fight win streak. Through 18-career fights, Iaquinta has never lost two-fights in a row.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPENN.COM<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 12\/12\/2018. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through 20-career fights, Kevin Lee has only lost three times. On Saturday at UFC on FOX 31, Lee will look to avenge one of those blemishes as he faces Al Iaquinta in a rematch. Lee was only 21-years-old when he suffered the first loss of his career to Iaquinta back at UFC 169. Losing by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54468,"featured_media":283958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10523,19995],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kevin Lee plans to send Al Iaquinta back to the prelims | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/kevin-lee\/kevin-lee-plans-to-send-al-iaquinta-back-to-the-prelims\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kevin Lee plans to send Al Iaquinta back to the prelims | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Through 20-career fights, Kevin Lee has only lost three times. On Saturday at UFC on FOX 31, Lee will look to avenge one of those blemishes as he faces Al Iaquinta in a rematch. Lee was only 21-years-old when he suffered the first loss of his career to Iaquinta back at UFC 169. Losing by [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/kevin-lee\/kevin-lee-plans-to-send-al-iaquinta-back-to-the-prelims\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"| BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bjpenn\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-12-12T15:13:45+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kevin-Lee-4.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"696\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"399\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"James Lynch\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@LynchOnSports\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@bjpenndotcom\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"James Lynch\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/kevin-lee\/kevin-lee-plans-to-send-al-iaquinta-back-to-the-prelims\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/kevin-lee\/kevin-lee-plans-to-send-al-iaquinta-back-to-the-prelims\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"James Lynch\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#\/schema\/person\/d24e8f8e9b24f988faa6e29c266dbdaa\"},\"headline\":\"Kevin Lee plans to send Al Iaquinta back to the prelims\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-12-12T15:13:45+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2018-12-12T15:13:45+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/kevin-lee\/kevin-lee-plans-to-send-al-iaquinta-back-to-the-prelims\/\"},\"wordCount\":451,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Al Iaquinta\",\"Kevin Lee\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/kevin-lee\/kevin-lee-plans-to-send-al-iaquinta-back-to-the-prelims\/#respond\"]}],\"copyrightYear\":\"2018\",\"copyrightHolder\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#organization\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/kevin-lee\/kevin-lee-plans-to-send-al-iaquinta-back-to-the-prelims\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/kevin-lee\/kevin-lee-plans-to-send-al-iaquinta-back-to-the-prelims\/\",\"name\":\"Kevin Lee plans to send Al Iaquinta back to the prelims | BJPenn.com\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2018-12-12T15:13:45+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2018-12-12T15:13:45+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/kevin-lee\/kevin-lee-plans-to-send-al-iaquinta-back-to-the-prelims\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/kevin-lee\/kevin-lee-plans-to-send-al-iaquinta-back-to-the-prelims\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/kevin-lee\/kevin-lee-plans-to-send-al-iaquinta-back-to-the-prelims\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"MMA News\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Kevin Lee\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/kevin-lee\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":4,\"name\":\"Kevin Lee plans to send Al Iaquinta back to the prelims\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\",\"name\":\"| BJPenn.com\",\"description\":\"MMA &amp; UFC News, Results &amp; Fight Videos\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#organization\",\"name\":\"| BJPenn.com\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/bj_penn_logo_amp.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/bj_penn_logo_amp.png\",\"width\":600,\"height\":148,\"caption\":\"| BJPenn.com\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/bjpenn\",\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/bjpenn\",\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/bjpenndotcom\/\",\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/0fficialbjpenn\",\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bjpenn\",\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bjpenndotcom\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#\/schema\/person\/d24e8f8e9b24f988faa6e29c266dbdaa\",\"name\":\"James Lynch\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/@LynchOnSports\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/author\/james-lynch\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Kevin Lee plans to send Al Iaquinta back to the prelims | BJPenn.com","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/kevin-lee\/kevin-lee-plans-to-send-al-iaquinta-back-to-the-prelims\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Kevin Lee plans to send Al Iaquinta back to the prelims | BJPenn.com","og_description":"Through 20-career fights, Kevin Lee has only lost three times. On Saturday at UFC on FOX 31, Lee will look to avenge one of those blemishes as he faces Al Iaquinta in a rematch. Lee was only 21-years-old when he suffered the first loss of his career to Iaquinta back at UFC 169. Losing by [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/kevin-lee\/kevin-lee-plans-to-send-al-iaquinta-back-to-the-prelims\/","og_site_name":"| BJPenn.com","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bjpenn","article_published_time":"2018-12-12T15:13:45+00:00","og_image":[{"width":696,"height":399,"url":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kevin-Lee-4.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"James Lynch","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@LynchOnSports","twitter_site":"@bjpenndotcom","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"James Lynch","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/kevin-lee\/kevin-lee-plans-to-send-al-iaquinta-back-to-the-prelims\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/kevin-lee\/kevin-lee-plans-to-send-al-iaquinta-back-to-the-prelims\/"},"author":{"name":"James Lynch","@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#\/schema\/person\/d24e8f8e9b24f988faa6e29c266dbdaa"},"headline":"Kevin Lee plans to send Al Iaquinta back to the prelims","datePublished":"2018-12-12T15:13:45+00:00","dateModified":"2018-12-12T15:13:45+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/kevin-lee\/kevin-lee-plans-to-send-al-iaquinta-back-to-the-prelims\/"},"wordCount":451,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#organization"},"articleSection":["Al Iaquinta","Kevin Lee"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/kevin-lee\/kevin-lee-plans-to-send-al-iaquinta-back-to-the-prelims\/#respond"]}],"copyrightYear":"2018","copyrightHolder":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#organization"}},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/kevin-lee\/kevin-lee-plans-to-send-al-iaquinta-back-to-the-prelims\/","url":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/kevin-lee\/kevin-lee-plans-to-send-al-iaquinta-back-to-the-prelims\/","name":"Kevin Lee plans to send Al Iaquinta back to the prelims | BJPenn.com","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#website"},"datePublished":"2018-12-12T15:13:45+00:00","dateModified":"2018-12-12T15:13:45+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/kevin-lee\/kevin-lee-plans-to-send-al-iaquinta-back-to-the-prelims\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/kevin-lee\/kevin-lee-plans-to-send-al-iaquinta-back-to-the-prelims\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/kevin-lee\/kevin-lee-plans-to-send-al-iaquinta-back-to-the-prelims\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"MMA News","item":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Kevin Lee","item":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/kevin-lee\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"name":"Kevin Lee plans to send Al Iaquinta back to the prelims"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#website","url":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/","name":"| BJPenn.com","description":"MMA &amp; UFC News, Results &amp; Fight Videos","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#organization","name":"| BJPenn.com","url":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/bj_penn_logo_amp.png","contentUrl":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/bj_penn_logo_amp.png","width":600,"height":148,"caption":"| BJPenn.com"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/instagram.com\/bjpenn","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/bjpenn","https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/bjpenndotcom\/","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/0fficialbjpenn","https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bjpenn","https:\/\/twitter.com\/bjpenndotcom"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#\/schema\/person\/d24e8f8e9b24f988faa6e29c266dbdaa","name":"James Lynch","sameAs":["https:\/\/twitter.com\/@LynchOnSports"],"url":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/author\/james-lynch\/"}]}},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294707"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}