UFC Results - BJ Penn

BJ Penn on Sean Sherk

nospam@example.com (Johnny MMA) — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 07:04:58 -0700

As usual I was doing my morning surfing and found two interesting articles. The first (from MMAWeekly.com) had a quote from BJ Penn on Sean Sherk

“For me, honestly, it’s not personal at all,” he stated. “The man was cheating. I called him a cheater; then he got all personal. So I think all the personal stuff is on him. He said this is the first time a fight’s personal and this and that and whatever. I couldn’t care less. I’m just going to go kick his ass.”

This has become one of my new favourite quotes.

The other interesting news comes courtesy of mmajunkie.com. Mirko Cro Cop is leaving the UFC to fight in a new organization "DREAM 1", his first fight will be March 15th from Japan. Personally I wish Mirko had stayed in the UFC and made another attempt at the title. Frank Mir, Antonio Nogueira and Tim Sylvia could all be good fights for Mirko, not to mention Brandon Vera. Who knows though, maybe this will set up Cro Cop vs Fedor 2 down the line.

Don't forget that UFC Results will have ufc 82 results and ufc 83 results on March 1st and April 19th respectively.

BJ Penn vs Joe Stevenson at UFC 80

nospam@example.com (Johnny MMA) — Mon, 5 Nov 2007 13:26:09 -0700

It looks like UFC 80 in January 2008 will feature a bout between BJ Penn and Joe Stevenson for an interim lightweight title. The UFC will not strip Sean Sherk of his title, instead opting to make the logical fight between the #2 and #3 lightweight fighters, then have the winner fight Sherk when Sherk's fight with the California State Athletic Commision is over with.

Sean Sherk tested positive for banned substances following his lightweight title fight against Hermes Franca. Franca also tested positive.

Amazing BJ Penn Interview

nospam@example.com (Johnny MMA) — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 09:40:10 -0700

Check out this Amazing BJ Penn Interview which features comments about his recent fight with Jens Pulver and his opinion on steroid use and specifically about Sean Sherk's recent positive test.

Ultimate Fighter Finale Fight Card

nospam@example.com (Johnny MMA) — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 16:04:29 -0700

Jens Pulver vs BJ Penn
These two met before at UFC 35 in 2002. It was the end result of an elimination tournement which would see BJ Penn defeat both Din Thomas and Caol Uno (in one of the quickest and most brutal knockouts I've ever seen). It was widely accepted that BJ Penn would roll right over Jens Pulver...however, history has shown never to count Jens Pulver out.

BJ Penn dominated the early fight and came within inches (or seconds) of submitting Jens Pulver. Actually, Jens let go and BJ had his arm just as the bell rang. By the end of the fight, Pulver had come back, it was close, but the decision went to Jens Pulver.

Let's take a quick peek at who these guys have fought since that fight:

BJ Penn

defeated Paul Creighton
defeated Matt Serra (current UFC welterweight champion)
draw Caol Uno
defeated Takanori Gomi (current pride lightweight champion)
defeated Matt Hughes (former two time welterweight champion)
defeated Duane Ludwig
defeated Rodrigo Gracie
lost to Ryoto Machida
defeated Renzo Gracie
lost to Georges St. Pierre by split decision (former welterweight champion)
lost to Matt Hughes (after dominating the first two rounds, BJ suffered a broken rib and got TKO'd in the 3rd round)

Ok, that's pretty damn impressive. Especially for a guy who is to be fighting at 155 lbs next weekend.

Let's see what Jens Pulver has been up to since the last fight

defeated Robert Emerson and Takehiro Murahama
lost to Duane Ludwig and Jason Maxwell
defeated Joe Jordan, Richard Hess, Naoya Uematsu and Stephen Palling
lost to Takanori Gomi
defeated Tomomi Iwama
lost to Hayato Sakurai
defeated Kenji Arai
defeated Cole Escovedo
lost to Joe Lauzon

Well, they've both fought guys, but it's pretty clear that BJ Penn has been fighting the better opponents in the last 5 years. Also, the two opponents they have in common, BJ has beaten and Jens has lost to (Takanori Gomi and Duane Ludwig).

I'll let you draw your own conclusions on who is going to win this fight...or you could check out my Ultimate Fighter Finale Predictions post

Roger Huerta vs Doug Evans
Floyd Sword vs Thales Leites
Brandon Melendez vs Joe Lauzon
Andy Wang vs Cole Miller
Rob Emerson vs Gray Maynard
Allen Berube vs Leonard Garcia
Brian Geraghty vs Matt Wiman

That's the Ultimate Fighter Finale Fight card. Stay tuned for my Ultimate Fighter Finale Predictions

Ultimate Fighter 5 Results.

nospam@example.com (Johnny MMA) — Fri, 18 May 2007 04:34:09 -0700

If you don't want to know who won, stop reading now!

Last night was the last Ultimate fighter 5 epispode for the first round. The show featured two good fights. First of all, let me explain that a good fight and a competative fight are not necessarily the same thing. Some of the best fights I've seen (my opinion) only lasted a minute or so. I categorize a good fight as one that I enjoyed watching. Great fights have all the ingredient of a good fight and a competative fight.

Somehow, for some reason Andy Wang made it into the shows spotlight again. This was a direct result of Dana White telling BJ Penn that he needs to get control of his team. BJ responds by kicking off Andy Wang for never listening to him. When Dana hears about this he goes into some spiel about possibly needing Wang if another fighter gets hurt...aren't there another 14 guys in the house? Why would you put Wang in another fight when you know that he'll just stand and brawl instead of trying to win? Regardless, Dana puts Wang on team Pulver and team Pulver has an Andy Wang lovefest...rediculous TV!

Luckily, the fights were much better...see my opening paragraph. They were "good" fights, not competative fights.

The first fight was Wayne Weems vs Gray Maynard. From everything we've seen about Weems up until this episode, Weems should be over matched in this bout. It turns out that he was, but he showed a big heart in not tapping. The fight itself started on the feet (as UFC fights tend to do), then went to the ground and ended up with Weems face down, covering up as well as he could while Maynard hit him to the head and body at will...for 2 minutes. Eventually the ref woke up and stopped the fight.

The second fight featured Matt Wiman vs Marlon Sims. I've been wanting to see Marlon Sims fight since much earlier in the show. Sims claims to have had 300 street fights, taken on multiple opponents at once, blah blah blah...sounds a little like Tank Abbott. I was interested to see if any of it was true.

The fight starts off with both fighters throwing a big right hand at the same time. Both shots land, but Matt Wiman's had more of an effect on Sims. Sims was stunned long enough for Wiman to take him to the ground, soften him up a little and choke him out. To Sims credit, he was gracious in defeat. I wouldn't be surprised to see both of these guys fighting in the UFC again regardless of who wins the contract.

So, the regular season is over. Team Pulver won 5 matches, team Penn won 3. Not as lop-sided as it looked like it was going to be. Oh yeah, there was a part of the show where BJ Penn said something about smashing Jens Pulver into retirement. I'll tell you one thing, the series finale is going to be a good show. There are probably 5 or 6 fighters on this season that I want to see fight again.