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BJ Penn Blasts Georges St-Pierre: Nobody Will Remember Him

Long before Georges St-Pierre was considered one of the greatest of all-time, he faced BJ Penn at UFC 58. At the time ‘The Prodigy’ was yet to embark on his mission as lightweight champion, but had already won the welterweight championship two years prior against Matt Hughes. In a 170-pound welterweight title eliminator, ‘Rush’ defeated Penn

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Long before Georges St-Pierre was considered one of the greatest of all-time, he faced BJ Penn at UFC 58. At the time ‘The Prodigy’ was yet to embark on his mission as lightweight champion, but had already won the welterweight championship two years prior against Matt Hughes. In a 170-pound welterweight title eliminator, ‘Rush’ defeated Penn by split decision and went on to win the belt from Hughes at UFC 65. The Hawaiian would return to lightweight and win the belt before once again facing ‘GSP.’

This time around St-Pierre held the welterweight championship, and Penn was attempting to become a two-division (at the same time) champion. After a grizzly beating the fight was ended by corner stoppage at the end of the fourth, and so ended Penn’s rivalry with ‘Rush.’ Following that second meeting, their careers went in very different directions. Remaining champion for the best part of the next five years, the Canadian national hero would retire in late 2013. Penn would defend his lightweight strap two more times before losing it to Frankie Edgar, winning just three of his next nine fights before retiring in 2014.

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Comebacks

After nearly three years away from the UFC, Georges St-Pierre is heavily rumoured for a return in Toronto at UFC 206. Penn has decided to make a comeback too, and will square off against Ricardo Lamas in a featherweight tilt on October 15. The former lightweight and welterweight champion would try to set up a third fight with ‘GSP,’ but the consensus greatest 170-pounder of all-time wasn’t having any of it.

“It’s an unnecessary risk for my legacy, for my career to take to fight a guy like him right now,” St-Pierre said. “It has nothing that will be good for me right now. I think he’s very dangerous. If it would be a walk in the park, I would do it.”

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Penn’s Response

Clearly frustrated by St-Pierre’s refusal, BJ Penn fired off a few shots about his old foe. As quoted by Bloody Elbow, ‘The Prodigy’ is steaming off those comments. Check it out:

“I remember when I fought him the first time, when he was nobody, I didn’t think about it being risky for my legacy,” Penn said in an interview with Rapid Fire. “That’s why I believe, when all this is said and done, that’s why I’ll be remembered but he will never be remembered.”

“You know, Anderson Silva was there, he could have fought Anderson Silva, but he never fought Anderson Silva for his legacy. Just as a rule of thumb, for myself personally, I don’t live thinking about my legacy. I’ll fight. I want to fight anyone, you know?”

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Future

Now 37-years of age, it’s an unsure future in the fight game for BJ Penn. The last time we saw him fight was a tough spectacle to watch. ‘The Prodigy’ looked shaky at featherweight, and Frankie Edgar scored a brutal TKO to send Penn to retirement. Will he be able to overcome ‘The Bully’ in Manilla? If so, perhaps he’ll make leeway towards that third fight with Georges St-Pierre.

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BJ Penn vs. Georges St-Pierre 3? ‘The Prodigy’ Wants GSP In New York

It’s been a long time since we’ve seen either BJ Penn or Georges St-Pierre actively fighting. For ‘Rush’ it was the tail end of a six-year win streak that sent him to retirement in 2013, having won 12 straight fights since 2007, but squeaking past Johny Hendricks at UFC 167. Citing personal issues and the

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It’s been a long time since we’ve seen either BJ Penn or Georges St-Pierre actively fighting. For ‘Rush’ it was the tail end of a six-year win streak that sent him to retirement in 2013, having won 12 straight fights since 2007, but squeaking past Johny Hendricks at UFC 167. Citing personal issues and the somewhat loose drug testing regime in mixed martial arts at the time, the former promotional poster boy relinquished his undisputed title, much to the dismay of his fans and UFC president Dana White.

‘Th Prodigy’ left the sport on a very different kind of streak, having been 5-1-1 in his last five years of competition, only competing three times between October 2011 and July 2014, and losing all those fights in rather ugly fashion. Fighting Nick Diaz and Rory MacDonald at welterweight was brave, albeit somewhat ill fated, and taking on Frankie Edgar at featherweight in his last fight was not a great decision.

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That was 2014, and Penn lost by harrowing TKO in the trilogy match with Edgar, sending him out of the sport with a rather unsatisfactory summary to such a storied fighting career. Criminal accusations and a failed USADA (United States Anti Doping Agency) test for IV use have hindered returns at UFC 197 and 199 for the former welterweight and lightweight champ, but now he’s aiming for a November return against an old foe in Georges St-Pierre:

This was in response to ‘GSP’ recently telling The MMA Hour that he could ‘easily’ make lightweight if required.

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During his best years Penn lost to ‘Rush’ by both decision at UFC 58 and TKO at UFC 94. The former welterweight champion and consensus greatest 170-pounder of all time ‘GSP’ has already been linked to a middleweight return against Michael Bisping, so is ‘The Prodigy’ asking for a lightweight battle a little too far down the weight categories?

Penn, in terms of fighters going down as their age goes up, is quite a rare sight. Most prefer to go up as their physique naturally swells over time, and what are the chances that St-Pierre will actually fancy the trip down below his formerly owned weight class? That said, UFC 205 will be the first event held in New York, and at the Madison Square Gardens no less. For obvious reasons this will be a historic night, potentially filled with red panties should the stars align in the correct manner.

Would this be a fight worth watching? Possibly, but I get the feeling that regardless of weight, St-Pierre would continue Penn’s run of bad luck.

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Injury Leaves BJ Penn Needing Opponent For UFC 199

It looks as though the injury bug struck a double this week, and it’s only Wednesday… Following the news that ex-UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva was forced off this weekend’s (Saturday May 14, 2016) stacked UFC 198 card, we have more bad news for fans of former pound-for-pound kings. This time it’s over to UFC

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It looks as though the injury bug struck a double this week, and it’s only Wednesday…

Following the news that ex-UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva was forced off this weekend’s (Saturday May 14, 2016) stacked UFC 198 card, we have more bad news for fans of former pound-for-pound kings. This time it’s over to UFC 199, and the feature preliminary bout between BJ Penn and Dennis Siver takes a big hit. As confirmed by BJPenn.com, Siver has been forced to pull out of the June 4 fight with ‘The Prodigy’ due to injury.

It will be Penn’s first fight in two years having sat dormant during a brief retirement, which came as no surprise given the brutal nature of his last fight. In an attempt to reinvent himself, BJ took on Frankie Edgar at featherweight, suffering a heart breaking TKO loss and looking awful in the process.

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Now the loss of Siver means Penn is currently without an opponent, but unlike the situation with UFC 198 and ‘The Spider,’ the promotion has a lot longer to find a replacement.

As of this moment, here’s the UFC 199 fight card:

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Event: UFC 199: “Rockhold vs. Weidman 2”
Date: Sat., June 4, 2016
Location: The Forum in Los Angeles, California
Broadcast: Pay-Per-View

UFC 199 PPV Main Event:

185 lbs.: UFC Middleweight Champion Luke Rockhold vs. Chris Weidman

UFC 199 PPV Co-Main Event:

135 lbs.: UFC Bantamweight Champion Dominick Cruz vs. Urijah Faber

UFC 199 Undercard (PPV/FOX Sports 1/UFC Fight Pass):

145 lbs.: Max Holloway vs. Ricardo Lamas
185 lbs.: Dan Henderson vs. Hector Lombard
145 lbs.: BJ Penn vs. Dennis Siver
155 lbs.: Bobby Green vs. Dustin Poirier
155 lbs.: Evan Dunham vs. Leonardo Santos
115 lbs.: Jessica Penne vs. Jessica Andrade
185 lbs.: Kevin Casey vs. Elvis Mutapcic
205 lbs.: Luiz Henrique da Silva vs. Jonathan Wilson
155 lbs.: Dong Hyun Kim vs. Marco Polo Reyes
170 lbs.: Tom Breese vs. Sean Strickland
155 lbs.: Mehdi Baghdad vs. John Makdessi
145 lbs.: Clay Guida vs. Brian Ortega

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BJ Penn Investigated By Police For Alleged Sexual Assault

Former UFC lightweight and welterweight champion BJ Penn prepares to return at UFC 199, set to face Dennis Siver on June 4. The pay-per-view card from Inglewood, California will mark the first time Penn has competed since July 2014, after retiring from the sport following a 13-year career. ‘The Prodigy’ didn’t go out on a

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Former UFC lightweight and welterweight champion BJ Penn prepares to return at UFC 199, set to face Dennis Siver on June 4. The pay-per-view card from Inglewood, California will mark the first time Penn has competed since July 2014, after retiring from the sport following a 13-year career. ‘The Prodigy’ didn’t go out on a high not though, as he went without victory since 2010, tasting three straight defeats to Nick Diaz, Rory MacDonald and Frankie Edgar, the latter of which was a particularly brutal TKO that sent him to retirement.

Then came the news he’d be coming back, once again at featherweight (as was his final fight with ‘The Answer’) hoping to regain some of his glory years in the UFC octagon. But there’s a storm brewing, far from the arena of combat, and it involves the girlfriend of a former employee of BJ Penn. At this stage the name of the accused is confirmed by MMAJunkie.com as BJ Penn, but the police cannot publicly state this due to the case being ongoing. Check out the details:

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Penn, she wrote, appeared to be “extremely intoxicated” and said “his words were extremely hard to understand.” She wrote that Penn apologized and said he left her boyfriend in the Hawaiian town of Waipio and asked if he could sleep in her boyfriend’s office.

The alleged victim wrote that she returned to her bedroom and locked her door, but was disturbed several times by Penn, who asked for blankets, a pillow and a glass of water.

Penn came back later to ask for another glass of water, she wrote. When she brought the water to the office, she discovered he was masturbating to one of her modelling photos.

“I said, ‘You can’t do that! You gotta go now! Come on, let’s go!’” she wrote. “I turned around and he wasn’t following me so (I) went back to the office and said, ‘Come on!’

“. . . . He pulled my shorts down and bent me over the dining room chair,” she wrote. “I was so scared. I quickly pulled my shorts back up and proceeded to push him towards (sic) the door.”

The alleged victim later told a Delaware Sheriff’s detective that no sexual penetration took place and said she was unhurt during the incident.

“He was saying things (and) I couldn’t understand most of it but he was apologizing,” she wrote. “I got him out of the door, shut it and locked it. He knocked a few more times but I was in the bedroom with the door locked and ignored him.”

Here’s the UFC statement on this grizzly saga:

“We have taken a look at the available facts, which aren’t too substantial, and there are two stories of what happened. To date, there has (been) no action at all taken by any law enforcement agency. We decided to allow B.J. to fight.

“However, we are going to continue to monitor the situation. If new information, more information, becomes available to us, obviously, we reserve the right to re-evaluate.”

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Some Top Names React To Khabib Nurmagomedov Needing Opponent

See who could be fighting Khabib Nurmagomedov on April 16… News broke late last night that once again Khabib Nurmagomedov’s return had been hindered by injury, but this time it was not his own. Tony Ferguson, originally scheduled to face ‘The Eagle’ on April 16’s UFC on FOX 19 card, withdrew from the bout with

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See who could be fighting Khabib Nurmagomedov on April 16…

News broke late last night that once again Khabib Nurmagomedov’s return had been hindered by injury, but this time it was not his own. Tony Ferguson, originally scheduled to face ‘The Eagle’ on April 16’s UFC on FOX 19 card, withdrew from the bout with just 11 days notice. Nurmagomedov has been out of action for two years now, his last performance a dominant win over current lightweight champ Rafael dos Anjos, and now the 22-0 Sambo master is looking for a replacement for ‘El Cucuy.’

We saw that Donald Cerrone threw his name in the mix, but with his own fight against Patrick Cote also at risk, it’s possible the UFC might look elsewhere. Luckily for the matchmakers, there’s been a number of fighters making themselves available for Nurmagomedov, but not all of them for April 16.

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UFC lightweight champion Rafael dos Anjos claims he has unfinished business with ‘The Eagle,’ but his old foe wasn’t too co-operative when the Brazilian came knocking:


That’s gonna sting.

So who else is in the mix for the top lightweight contender to face this month?

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Looking Back: Five Of BJ Penn’s Best Moments

Although our most recent memories of BJ Penn inside of the Octagon may be difficult to digest, the former UFC lightweight and former UFC welterweight champion remains as a pioneer of the sport, and simply one of the most influential mixed martial artists of all-time. That being said, heads were turned when the 37 year

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Although our most recent memories of BJ Penn inside of the Octagon may be difficult to digest, the former UFC lightweight and former UFC welterweight champion remains as a pioneer of the sport, and simply one of the most influential mixed martial artists of all-time.

That being said, heads were turned when the 37 year old Penn confirmed earlier this week that he would be making a return to competitive fighting.

“The Prodigy” had previously went into retirement after suffering a brutal beat down at the hands of Frankie Edgar back in 2014, a fight that marked his third consecutive loss.

Now apparently re-motivated and rejuvenated, “The Prodigy” is ready to make a comeback training under the tutelage of world class coaches Greg Jackson and Mike Winklejohn.

Despite some not being in favor of Penn’s decision, it should be interesting to see what he makes of the opportunity.

As one of only two men to hold titles in two different weight classes, “The Prodigy” has sure had an illustrious career. Ahead of his upcoming return, let’s take a closer look at five of BJ Penn’s best moments:

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