Despite being the first fighter to stop the notoriously tough Diego Sanchez, UFC lightweight Joe Lauzon brushed off the idea that “The Ultimate Fighter 1” winner should retire.

“I hate when people start telling people they should retire,” Lauzon (26-11 MMA, 13-8 UFC) said after UFC 200, where he blasted Sanchez (26-9 MMA, 15-9 UFC) with punches en route to a first-round stoppage at Las Vegas’ T-Mobile Arena. “You have one off night; that’s not a reason to retire.”

It’s debatable the 34-year-old Sanchez has merely had just one of those nights. The former title challenger is 2-4 in his last six outings and 5-6 since challenging for the lightweight belt against then-champ B.J. Penn.

While he’s outlasted his contemporaries, Sanchez’s fortunes in the octagon appear more diminished than ever, if this past Saturday’s UFC Fight Pass-streamed preliminary-card appearance is any indication. Lauzon, though, doesn’t think that’s a reason to hang up the gloves.

“Every single time I have a fight that doesn’t go perfect, people go, ‘How many more do you have left?’” he said. “It’s a bad fight. Everyone here is really, really good.”

Lauzon couldn’t be more right about that. Now in his 10th year as a UFC fighter, he’s faced a laundry list of the sport’s best while winning more fight-night bonuses than anyone in the promotion’s history but Nate Diaz, who also has 14, in spite of a 13-8 octagon record.

Lauzon, 32, has no intentions of retiring. So he’s not about to say when one of his colleagues should.

“(Sanchez) had a bad night – go home, get over it, and get back in the gym,” Lauzon said.

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