BJ Penn | UFC Betting Sites - The Best MMA Online Bookies

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

The post Injury Leaves BJ Penn Needing Opponent For UFC 199 appeared first on LowKick MMA.

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.

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:

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

The post Injury Leaves BJ Penn Needing Opponent For UFC 199 appeared first on LowKick MMA.

BJ Penn vs. Dennis Siver Set As Prelim Main Event For UFC 199

It looks like fans won’t have to open their wallets if they want to watch MMA legend BJ Penn’s Octagon comeback in June.

According to a new report by Ariel Helwani of MMAFighting.com, the BJ Penn vs. Dennis Siver fight scheduled for UFC 199 next mon…

It looks like fans won’t have to open their wallets if they want to watch MMA legend BJ Penn’s Octagon comeback in June.

According to a new report by Ariel Helwani of MMAFighting.com, the BJ Penn vs. Dennis Siver fight scheduled for UFC 199 next month will serve as the final preliminary bout on the FOX Sports 1 portion of the event, which leads directly into the main pay-per-view card at 10pm EST.

Penn-Siver will headline the preliminary card for UFC 199, which will be followed by a stacked pay-per-view card headlined by two titles fights, as Luke Rockhold defends his UFC Middleweight Championship against Chris Weidman in an immediate rematch, and Dominick Cruz and Urijah Faber will compete for the UFC Bantamweight Championship in their long-awaited rubber match.

UFC 199 takes place on Saturday, June 4, 2016 at The Forum in Inglewood, California. Make sure to visit MMANews.com on 6/4 for the best UFC 199 live results coverage on the web!

BJ Penn Investigated By Police For Alleged Sexual Assault

The post BJ Penn Investigated By Police For Alleged Sexual Assault appeared first on LowKick MMA.

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:

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.”

The post BJ Penn Investigated By Police For Alleged Sexual Assault appeared first on LowKick MMA.

UFC Issues Statement On Sexual Assault Allegations Made Against BJ Penn

UFC has issued an official statement regarding sexual assault allegations made against UFC Hall Of Famer BJ Penn.

UFC’s statement reads as follows:

“Following a review of the matter by Campbell & Williams, a Las Vegas-based law firm hired by UFC to evaluate the situation, UFC has been informed that no criminal or civil charges have been filed against Penn to date, nor has any action been taken by local law enforcement. It should be noted that UFC reserves the right to reevaluate the matter should new information be made available.”

It was also announced this week that Penn’s official Octagon return will take place at UFC 199, as he will meet Dennis Siver in a featherweight bout on June 4, 2016 at The Forum in Inglewood, California.

UFC has issued an official statement regarding sexual assault allegations made against UFC Hall Of Famer BJ Penn.

UFC’s statement reads as follows:

“Following a review of the matter by Campbell & Williams, a Las Vegas-based law firm hired by UFC to evaluate the situation, UFC has been informed that no criminal or civil charges have been filed against Penn to date, nor has any action been taken by local law enforcement. It should be noted that UFC reserves the right to reevaluate the matter should new information be made available.”

The Progidy is Back: BJ Penn Booked Against Denis Siver at UFC 199

Like most MMA fans who prefer not to see the legends of the sport continue to fight well past the twilights of their careers, we did not exactly take the news of BJ Penn’s unretirement well. Following his *last* unretirement fight — a one-sided, horrific beatdown to rival Frankie Edgar at the TUF 19 Finale — a teary-eyed Penn openly admitted to reporters that he never should have returned to the sport, leading most of us to believe that he had finally learned the lesson that so few fighters do.

But a broken spirit and a declining skill set is nothing that Master Jackson can’t fix, and as such, The Progidy…er…The Prodidy…The Prodigy is back!

The post The Progidy is Back: BJ Penn Booked Against Denis Siver at UFC 199 appeared first on Cagepotato.

Like most MMA fans who prefer not to see the legends of the sport continue to fight well past the twilights of their careers, we did not exactly take the news of BJ Penn’s unretirement well. Following his *last* unretirement fight — a one-sided, horrific beatdown to rival Frankie Edgar at the TUF 19 Finale – a teary-eyed Penn openly admitted to reporters that he never should have returned to the sport, leading most of us to believe that he had finally learned the lesson that so few fighters do.

But a broken spirit and a declining skill set is nothing that Master Jackson can’t fix, and as such, The Progidy…er…The Prodidy…The Prodigy is back!

According to Kevin Iole (via BloodyElbow), Penn has officially been booked to return to the octagon. The former two-division champion will face German kickboxer and spinning sh*t aficionado Dennis Siver at UFC 199, which transpires at The Forum in Inglewood, California on June 4th.

With all do respect to Siver, the matchup is easily the most winnable one Penn has been given in close to 7 years. Seriously, look at the dude’s resume – Penn has fought nothing but killers for something like 11 fights in a row, and even his opponents before that were anything but cans. Having dropped two fights in a row and been sacrificed to Conor McGregor, Cub Swanson, and Donald Cerrone in the recent past, Siver has quickly transitioned from the UFC’s master of the spinning back kick to its go-to fall man, and a loss to Penn may very well see him get his walking papers.

That being said, this is a far more winnable fight for Siver than you might initially expect, based solely on how atrocious Penn looked in his last performance. Could six months at the Jackson-Wink camp really have regenerated the 37-year-old Penn to his former glory? And if it has, how long will it last? It’s hard to say, really, but all I know is that a win against Siver might be the worst thing that could happen to him. Lord knows he’ll be promoted to instant #1 contender status with anything resembling an impressive performance, and the thought of seeing him face whoever emerges from the Edgar-Aldo-McGregor pileup is enough to make you lose your lunch.

What do you think though, Nation? Is this the best case scenario for Penn, or is he once again sowing the seeds for his own demise?

The post The Progidy is Back: BJ Penn Booked Against Denis Siver at UFC 199 appeared first on Cagepotato.

BJ Penn Returns To The UFC Octagon This June

After months of speculation, legendary two-class UFC champion BJ Penn will officially return to the Octagon. ‘The Prodigy’ will face off with featherweight Dennis Siver on the main card of June 4’s UFC 199 from The Forum in Inglewood, California, UFC President Dana White confirmed to Yahoo! Sports today. Penn was last seen losing his

The post BJ Penn Returns To The UFC Octagon This June appeared first on LowKick MMA.

After months of speculation, legendary two-class UFC champion BJ Penn will officially return to the Octagon.

‘The Prodigy’ will face off with featherweight Dennis Siver on the main card of June 4’s UFC 199 from The Forum in Inglewood, California, UFC President Dana White confirmed to Yahoo! Sports today.

Penn was last seen losing his third consecutive match to top-ranked featherweight Frankie Edgar at July 2014’s The ultimate Fighter (TUF) 19 Finale, a brutal affair that saw him retire afterwards. Penn has lost three of his last four UFC bouts, with the fourth a draw versus Jon Fitch at 2011’s UFC 125, and five of his last seven.

Before the disappointing downswing, however, Penn cut a swath in MMA history as arguably the most dominant lightweight champion in promotion history, submitting Joe Stevenson for the belt in 2008 before defending it three times against Sean Sherk, Kenny Florian, and Diego Sanchez. He also famously won the welterweight title over Matt Hughes in his 170-pound debut at UFC 46, and his UFC 58 decision loss to Georges St. Pierre is still talked about as a robbery.

Penn will return to the UFC as a member of the Hall of Fame, having been inducted into the select group last summer.

Some dire allegations threatened his return to fighting when he was accused of sexually assaulting the girlfriend of a former editor at his website BJPenn.com, but UFC executive Lawrence Epstein said Penn had been cleared of all charges after an investigation:

“We have taken a look at the available facts, which aren’t too substantial, and there are two stories of what happened,” Epstein said. “To date, there has 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 to the situation. If new information, more information, becomes available to us, obviously, we reserve the right to re-evaluate.”

Penn has apparently taken his newfound return seriously, moving his camp to Jackson-Winkeljohn MMA in Albuquerque after the main critique of the ultra-talented superstar was always that he ran his own camp and it allowed him to slack at times.

He’ll return to action against Siver, another falling fighter who has lost three of his previous five fights.

UFC 199 is headlined by the middleweight title rematch between Luke Rockhold and former champion Chris Weidman, and bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz will finally settle his rivalry with Urijah Faber in the co-main event.

The post BJ Penn Returns To The UFC Octagon This June appeared first on LowKick MMA.