The ongoing feud that began in August between B.J. Penn and former nutritionist Mike Dolce continued to heat up on Wednesday via Twitter.
Penn sparked the quarrel by claiming on BJPenn.com that Dolce didn’t earn his paycheck as his nutritionist during his training camp for his third fight with Frankie Edgar at The Ultimate Fighter Season 19 Finale in July.
Penn lost via third-round TKO to Edgar to fall to the former lightweight champ for the third time in his career. The loss marked Penn’s third in a row and his fifth in seven fights.
More than two months after igniting the spat, the former two-division UFC champ threw the latest dart at Dolce by tweeting the following on Wednesday:
@TheDolceDiet Keep talking, I’m gonna have a heart to heart talk with your glass jaw when I see you.
— BJ PENN (@bjpenndotcom) October 22, 2014
Dolce wasted little time firing back at “Baby Jay,” tweeting the following less than three hours later.
@bjpenndotcom Wow, very classy! Where was all this aggression on the night of July 6th?? #BullyJ
— Mike DOLCE (@TheDolceDiet) October 22, 2014
The basis of Penn’s beef with Dolce lies in the notion that even though he paid the famed nutritionist $22,000 for 21 days of work, he didn’t get the services he was promised.
Dolce quickly responded to Penn’s initial complaints by making these comments on the Joe Rogan Experience (h/t MMAJunkie.com) in September:
It was one of the oddest training camps I’ve ever been a part of, and I was there for less than two weeks, physically, in Hawaii. I had very little influence. I made some strong suggestions and very strong observations to members of the team about what I saw, what I’m accustomed to and what I think would really benefit him.
The suggestions that I made, I made them officially, and they were accepted but not responded or reacted to. It was just a matter of that’s the direction he chose to go. He’s either going to win and look like a f—–g genius, or he’s going to not win and he’s going to make the oddsmakers look like geniuses.
Penn lost his lightweight belt to Edgar in a unanimous decision at UFC 112 in 2010. He has amassed a 1-4-1 record since then.
Dolce, a member of Team Rampage on Season 7 of The Ultimate Fighter, recorded a 5-10 pro MMA record between 2006 and 2010.
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