B.J. Penn gjorde under UFC Fight Night 103 sin comeback i oktogonen efter att han gick i pension 2014. Han mötte då Yair Rodriguez och åkte på ordentligt med stryk med många hårda sparkar från den unge och intensiva mexikanen.
Enligt tränaren Jason Parillo borde UFC ha gett Penn en lättare motståndare i viktklassen.
Via Submission Radio:
Wouldn’t it be nice for a matchmaker to call up BJ Penn when he says he wants to come back after a two-and-a-half-year layoff, hasn’t won since 2010 and say, “hey man, we want you to come back. Yeah, we’d love to give you a fight. And let’s give you whoever – Joe Bloggs, it doesn’t matter, give us a 35-year-old guy. The guy won two world titles, he’s done everything for the company, he’s never said no to any fights, he’s made himself and the company plenty of money. It’d be nice to kind of get the opportunity to shake off a little rust and put BJ in there with a guy that, you know, he’s got a better chance than a four and a half to one. Four and a half to one is a pretty big spread.
BJ Penn’s the only guy I know that hasn’t won a fight since 2010 and they’ll give him a main event fight against the number four guy in the division, or whatever. Do you see a lot of guys getting that opportunity? No, you don’t. But they know he’ll do it. They know he won’t say no and they know he will take on everybody. He prefers to fight the top ten guys. I mean, I would’ve loved to be the guy to be able to pick the fight, but that’s not my job and that’s not my position. But I would’ve loved to have been that guy, I’ll tell you that much.
Penn knockades i andra ronden har nu gått med förlust i 6 av sina 8 senaste matcher, en vinst och en draw. Han står sammanlagt med 16 vinster och 11 förluster.
