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Matt Serra Defends BJ Penn Continuing To Fight In The UFC

Former UFC lightweight champion BJ Penn is still actively competing in the Octagon. At 40-years-old, Penn continues to fight in mixed martial arts (MMA) competition. He hasn’t won a fight since 2010, and is currently on a seven-fight losing streak, losing three by way of finish. In his last outing, Penn suffered a unanimous decision […]

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Former UFC lightweight champion BJ Penn is still actively competing in the Octagon.

At 40-years-old, Penn continues to fight in mixed martial arts (MMA) competition. He hasn’t won a fight since 2010, and is currently on a seven-fight losing streak, losing three by way of finish. In his last outing, Penn suffered a unanimous decision loss to Clay Guida at UFC 237 this past weekend.

After the loss, many people began to argue that Penn should hang up his gloves. There has been a lot of talk within the MMA community that Penn shouldn’t be fighting anymore in the first place. However, former UFC welterweight champ Matt Serra took to the “UFC Unfiltered” podcast to defend Penn (via MMA Fighting):

“I don’t know. It’s not like what’s happening to Rashad Evans or somebody like Chuck Liddell where you’re like, ‘Man, I don’t want to see him get hurt anymore,’” Serra said.

“I don’t know. I’ve known B.J. for so long, I love the dude, he’s a really good person. . . The guy’s a legend. He can do whatever he wants. I wish him best. I don’t want to, I’m not sitting here saying he should retire.

“It’s not like he is getting destroyed, and it looked like he was having a great time, as far as leading up to it. . . And he did look good in the beginning, you know!”

It remains to be seen whether or not Penn fights again. Aside from the controversy surrounding his physical ability to compete, many were surprised he was allowed to fight in Brazil last weekend due to his pending legal issues away from MMA.

Should Penn fight again, and suffer another loss, the Hawaiian might have to seriously consider retiring once and for all, as it would mean he’s on an eight-fight losing streak.

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Matt Serra Doesn’t Think BJ Penn Needs to Retire From MMA

Former UFC welterweight champion Matt Serra is not someone who thinks that UFC Hall of Famer BJ Penn needs to retire from MMA. Penn is on a seven-fight losing streak. As a result, he holds the longest winless streak in UFC history. He lost by decision …

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Matt Serra Goes Off On T.J. Dillashaw For EPO Use

Matt Serra isn’t thrilled about T.J. Dillashaw’s drug test failure. For Dillashaw, 2019 hasn’t been kind and we’re only in April. Dillashaw challenged Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) flyweight title holder Henry Cejudo in a bid to become a “champ-champ.” The attempt didn’t end well for Dillashaw as he was stopped in 32 seconds. He then […]

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Matt Serra Disagrees with Al Iaquinta’s & Khabib’s Criticisms of Kevin Lee

A lot of people had took great satisfaction in Al Iaquinta’s victory over Kevin Lee in the main event of UFC Milwaukee, but none more than Iaquinta himself. Iaquinta could be seen releasing a guttural scream in the face of Kevin Lee after the final tic…

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10 Times MMA Stars Confronted Their Hecklers

If anyone is foolish enough to try to heckle MMA stars, then they’d best prepare themselves to be on the receiving end of a verbal beatdown – if not worse. The trash-talkers in this article discovered the hard way! Chael Sonnen vs. Regional Fighter At a Q&A session during the UFC Fan Expo in 2013, […]

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If anyone is foolish enough to try to heckle MMA stars, then they’d best prepare themselves to be on the receiving end of a verbal beatdown – if not worse.

The trash-talkers in this article discovered the hard way!

Chael Sonnen vs. Regional Fighter

At a Q&A session during the UFC Fan Expo in 2013, Chael Sonnen found himself coming under fire from a regional fighter called Bill Smallwood, who apparently had a chip on his shoulder.

“I’m trying to figure out why people are asking your opinion when you haven’t had your hand raised in two years?” Smallwood said after queuing up to ask Sonnen a question.

As Smallwood continued to ramble on about ‘real talk,’ the state of Oklahoma, and fighters from that area who deserved a title shot more than him, Sonnen finally lost his patience and began to fire back with both barrels.

“Spit it out brother, you’re putting everybody to sleep, man, and I’m about to come over there and whip your *** in a second just to give people something to look at!” Sonnen bellowed at him.

“Here’s real talk dummy. If you don’t get to the end of the line, I’m going to come down there and warm up on you before I talk care of LeBron [James] later tonight, so take those stupid sunglasses off your head, because we’re in a dark room, dummy!”

Smallwood was running out of material fast but kept going anyway.

“I sell *** whoopings, son, not memberships,” he retorted.

“You don’t sell anything, stupid,” Sonnen informed him. “You sell ***-whippings? What is your name again? Who are you?”

Smallwood didn’t respond to that, perhaps because no one had a clue who he was, and the reality was that he only had a 2-3 record in MMA at the time (a record that several years later now stands at just 4-7).

“Tell my room of fans what real talk means,” Sonnen mocked him to cheers and applause from the crowd. “Beat it!”

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Matt Serra Reflects On Altercation With Drunk Man That Went Viral

Matt Serra has given some more details on an incident with a drunk man that went viral.

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Matt Serra has given some more details on an incident with a drunk man that went viral.

Despite the busy last week or so with all of the UFC 226 as well as TUF 27 Finale news and coverage, former UFC welterweight champion was able to steal some headlines as he got into an altercation with a drunk man in a Las Vegas restaurant. Fear not, Serra took it easy on the man as he harmlessly subduing the man before security intervened and the incident was broken up.

Serra discussed how the situation came to be on the latest episode of the UFC Unfiltered podcast alongside Jim Norton where he would bring up the fact that he and his family were attempting to leave the restaurant when the man confronted him. This is when the Hall of Famer decided to calm the situation down and Serra said he took action in the most gentle way possible after being threatened.

“We’re eating at the cafe and this couple comes in that’s out of their mind drunk,” Serra said (transcript courtesy of MMAFighting). “She passed out the second she was in there. He left, came back, left, but the he started getting really, really nasty to the staff. Cursing, just totally drunk, loud, obnoxious, rude. Then he starts throwing stuff at the waiter as he’s walking by and yelling to the point where everybody is stopping and looking. . .

“I was almost out of there! I was almost in the clear. My waiter is bringing me the check and then he gets up and he goes after my waiter – just a drunk moron and he has his fists clinched. He was throwing s**t at the other waiter, now he’s facing me and my family. So he’s drunk and something’s gonna happen. This guy is hitting him or he’s gonna throw something and my family is behind me, so I stood up and then he directed everything towards me the second I stood up. ‘You! I’ll fight you!’

“So he took his shirt off and the second he took his shirt off, I don’t know if he went to swing but I just neutralized that s**t. I stepped right in, got him around his waist – my wife, she goes, ‘When you went in I thought that you were gonna slam him. You let him down so gently!’ Dude, he just, like, melted when I grabbed him. He folded to jelly. so I got him around the waist, basic takedown. I gave him a free jiu-jitsu lesson.

“I put him on the ground, I mounted him. His mount defense, his elbow escape and his trap and roll were not there. So then the second I got him down I told my sister to film this. So you got it from there and you saw the rest.”

The best part of this story is the fact that Serra was so calm that he wanted the incident filmed and thus, the footage was shot thanks to his sister recording it and later posting it to his Instagram account where it quickly went viral by racking up over 10 million views.

“I took him down, I got a bigger applause then I did in my first GSP fight,” Serra laughed. “The audience erupted. They were still clapping by the time my sister started filming because that dude was as obnoxious as you can get. Yelling, screaming, making a scene, being vulgar. Total f**king d**khead.

“Even though he deserves to get smacked or something, the loser goes to the hospital and the winner goes to jail. I know there was no winning in beating up this guy but he definitely needed to be subdued because he was gonna hit somebody.”

As part of International Fight Week, the UFC decided to induct him into their Hall of Fame while in Las Vegas. There’s no doubt that he has earned the honor.

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