Part of BJ interview

Speaking via BJPenn.com, Penn said:

“Dana has expressed some things to me that he would want to see this year, maybe me in the welterweight division. We will see. I have got a tough fight with Frankie Edgar coming up. [And] there is always good lightweight talent, there is a bunch of welterweight contenders up there. I guess I would just have to say I don’t have my mind set on anything yet…. I don’t want to jump the gun and give away all Dana’s plans!”

“My weight right now - I just finally got a battery for my scale - I think I am about 167.5 or 168. You have got these big guys, they walk around [heavy] and they are strong. I don’t know if I am the only guy, but I think it is about pushing yourself and seeing how far you go and its about failing sometimes - and failing miserably sometimes -but standing up afterwards and realising what happened, and the mistakes that you made.”

“But I think that I cannot picture myself becoming complacent, staying in one place. Not that I could defend the lightweight title for ever, I know that’s impossible, you can’t win every one. But I think there is nothing wrong with pushing yourself, seeing how far can you actually go.”


This is why he is great. Unlike other fighters that are afraid to move up unless they have time to get bigger he is looking to do it just to challenge himself knowing the chance of failing is increased.

Did you type this or is there a text of it somewhere? My computer has been deaf for a few weeks.

http://www.mmabay.co.uk/Story%2010355.html

It is from his interview on his website. mmabay put some into text to read.

I need to get this computer worked on. The silent computer era sucks when it's my present. They have a new beta on youtube right now for closed captioning. It is a google voice recognition program and it kinda sucks on the commentary I've used it for so far.

Just check the whole interview out if you can at BJ's site. This part wasn't even the good stuff. He talked about why he lost to GSP and all kinds of other stuff.