A fallout has apparently occurred between brother's Joe and Dan Lauzon. Today, younger brother Dan announced that his camp had "given up on him," and would not be representing him at UFC 114 against Efrain Escudero.

In response to the accusation of abandonment, older brother Joe felt the need to elaborate further on the situation in a post made on his personal website. FiveKnuckles.com has reprinted that post below.

So Frustrating:

Dealing with family can be really tough sometimes. When you mix business and family... it's an absolute nightmare. You make a tough decision and its cold. You go easy on someone and they are only treated that way because they are family. I am usually tough on Dan, but it's because I love him and want what's best for him. I know that me being easy on him in training is not going to help him when there is someone across the cage from him trying with everything they have to hurt him.

I always push Dan hard when it comes to training. In my eyes, and in the eyes of our coaches, Dan has never put in an honest training camp. He has strung together 3 or 4 good weeks here and there... but never anything any longer. It's always him rushing at the end to cram a 12 weeks camp into 3. Then injuries and other things pop up and it doesn't go so well. When he was fighting locally, he would get away with it. At the UFC level, that just doesn't cut it.

With Dan, it's always "something". You have never seen someone that has no job because they are a "full-time fighter" that trains less. There is a list a mile long of things he has to do... but training is usually way down the list. If it's not that he is too busy... it's him getting a new tattoo in the middle of training camp... which either doesn't let him train or greatly limits what he can do. This has happened for nearly half a dozen fights in a row now.

As coaches, we noticed the pattern right away and tried everything to change it. We would try and stay on his ass about training and that didn't work. We would try positive reinforcement and that didn't work. I tried to get him to come out to Hawaii with me for 3 weeks to train with BJ Penn and that didn't work.

When Dan was 14 to 17, he trained like a mad man. He was in the gym all the time, but he is 22 now and that fire he once had is long gone. When he is in the gym, he comes in and works hard. He does a great job helping guys with technical things and teaching more subtle things as well. Unfortunately, he is never in the gym. If he has a fight, he is in sparingly. If he doesn't have a fight he is an absolute ghost.

When we heard about the fight with Efrain, we knew Dan had to be in great shape. Efrain is a cardio machine and would not stop pushing until the fight was over. Dan had to be in great shape. When I am not training for a fight, I am in the gym at least 6 times a week. I double up when getting ready for a fight and we expected Dan to put in the same time. We told Dan we needed him training 10 or 11 times...