MMA fans are affectionate towards their favorite legendary fighters, but sometimes, that affection borders on excessive.
And sometimes, it goes so far past excessive that it creates an everlasting myth around the fighters that’s certainly apocryphal, but idealistic fans never fail to believe it without question.
Take BJ Penn, for example, a fighter who was perennially inconsistent but is never chided as such. Instead, his deluded fans only talk about how the “motivated” BJ Penn could destroy any fighter on earth.
The motivated BJ Penn is a mythical version of the real BJ Penn who had trouble taking the fight fame seriously.
What are the other mythical versions of real fighters? Read and find out!