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Former UFC champion BJ Penn details his reasons for returning to the Octagon this fall to face Rory MacDonald, coming out of retirement to face another Tristar product. Penn has some history with the Montreal gym, having lost twice to it’s poster boy UFC welterweight champ Georges St-Pierre.
“The reason why I came back to fight Rory, after he put that challenge out, is, you know, Rory is a guy with a lot of hype around him. It’s a lot of good hype, ya know? It’s justified. He’s been doing very well. I wanted to go up against him, Firas, the whole Tri-Star team. The have a real good thing going on up there, and I wanna take a crack at it. I had the fight with them, I think it’s a few years ago now, and I really feel that I could have put on a better performance. I wanna give it another shot, and I wanna walk away, after that, knowing that everything was left in the Octagon.”