BJ Penn’s UFC Comeback Delayed, Expected to Fight at UFC 197

On Monday, former UFC champion BJ Penn’s website announced his return to the Octagon will be delayed (via Nick Baldwin of BloodyElbow.com):

I thought the fight guaranteed was going to happen because the UFC, they set up medicals for me to do. I d…

On Monday, former UFC champion BJ Penn‘s website announced his return to the Octagon will be delayed (via Nick Baldwin of BloodyElbow.com):

I thought the fight guaranteed was going to happen because the UFC, they set up medicals for me to do. I did the medicals and they were sending a film crew down and we were getting all that together and I assumed we were setting up the fight, and that might have been what was happening. But, at the end of the day, Sean Shelby (UFC matchmaker) called me and said it would be more convenient for all of us to move the fight to April 23rd.

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