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Former UFC two division champion BJ Penn released this video blog on Tuesday having recently finished the “Countdown to UFC 137″ episode for his upcoming fight with Nick Diaz on October 29 in Las Vegas.
In it, Penn says that the UFC interviewers made him say things he didn’t want to say.
“They had to come back to film the Nick Diaz countdown. One thing that was a trip about that whole thing was that, I got a lot of respect for Diaz, I’ve trained with him, that whole thing… they forced me to say, at the end of the whole thing, they forced me to say… ‘You gotta say Nick Diaz’s name now, you gotta say his name.’ And I was like, ‘What?’ They were like, ‘Say you’re going to beat Nick Diaz. Say you’re going to beat Nick Diaz.’ And I said, ‘I’m going to beat Nick Diaz.’ I wish … I would have said my hand is going to be raised; at UFC 137 my hand is going to be raised. I don’t know if they’re going to come back and try to show Nick Diaz that, I don’t know what’s going on with that.”
Thanks to MMAMania.com for the transcription cause I was too lazy this morning to do it myself.