Joe Lauzon again missed out on his chance to fight Donald Cerrone, but the good news is that the health issue that caused him to withdraw from UFC Austin proved to be a minor scare.
The UFC announced Saturday that the Lauzon vs. Cerrone co-main event was cancelled after Lauzon suffered a mysterious knee injury. Lauzon was absent from Friday’s ceremonial weigh-ins and later explained that his knee locked up earlier that day at the official weigh-ins as he was putting on socks after stepping off the scale. It was the second time the bout was cancelled after Cerrone was ruled out of UFC 274 due to his own health scare.
Saturday evening Lauzon posted an update via Instagram showing that he was fully recovered.
“So you can’t make this up, but my knee works again,” Lauzon said. A video was sent to me by someone on Instagram an hour ago. It said, “This seems like something that I deal with in my knee.” You should check out this video.’ And it was 100 percent, everything was exactly the problem I was having.
“It was called a ‘tib-fib dislocation.’ So basically the bones in my leg were dislocated. That’s why we couldn’t get it back. So I did the exercise in the video and it popped back in. It’s insane. My leg fully works. My leg is fully functional. I can now walk, hop and jump. The last two days, my feet were sore. I could barely put on socks, couldn’t get up off the ground, couldn’t even stand and couldn’t carry any weight. It was so painful that I could barely hobble. I also couldn’t get my feet to stand because of the shaking in my foot. It was terrible.
The originally scheduled UFC Austin co-main event featured two of the lightweight division’s stalwarts with Cerrone making his 38th UFC appearance and Lauzon making his 28th.
Lauzon believed that it was possible to add the fight to Saturday’s schedule once he had recovered.
” I wish that this video was available yesterday, or today before the fight was called off. We contacted the UFC, we tried to make it, to see if Cowboy was still around we could still fight. But it was too late. I think he’s at the fights, but the UFC said we couldn’t do it, so it sucks.
“Sorry to everyone again, this whole entire situation super sucks. I don’t now what’s going to happen. We’ll see.”
