Who will win BJ Penn vs Kenny Florian?

Jruq wrote:

If it makes you feel any better Bigs I wanted to be wrong.

Marginal relief.

The good thing is that my dislike of BJ is not contingent on wins and losses.

I realized shortly after the opening bell that crow would be my Monday morning breakfast.

Well my dislike for BJ is a lot less now that I saw him put on a beautiful display of mixed martial arts mastery.

Wolfgangsta wrote:

Well my dislike for BJ is a lot less now that I saw him put on a beautiful display of mixed martial arts mastery.

I suppose if he hadn't give me a whole new reason to dislike him last week by puking steroid rumors about someone who gave him no reason to I would be more inclined to hate BJ less.

That being said, I've never seen BJ look so good in a fight. Yeah he's finished guys in a more timely fashion, however, Kenny is no joke and BJ took him out fairly easily. I was impressed. Hopefully he won't become delusional again and challenge GSP for the WW belt.

As big of a Douchebag as BJ can be if he loses, he is usually pretty gracious in victory if you ignore a little vampyric action.

Of course it's easier to make friends with someone if you win, but I did give him points for helping Kenny up.

I am in awe of BJ's skill-set really - he could rely on his wrestling and BJ exclusively and be a lot like Maia, but he also happens to have the best hands in the division and a granite chin.
It must be a lot harder to motivate oneself to train when you are so much better than everyone else.

As long as BJ comes into the fight in shape he is one tough dude. He looked very motivated in the Kenny and Sherk fights and it showed in his performance. I still have concerns about him fighting stronger wrestlers(Sherk didn't use his wrestling). I still think you can break BJ's will by establishing dominate positions and that is his weakness.

OUSOONERSOU wrote:

As long as BJ comes into the fight in shape he is one tough dude. He looked very motivated in the Kenny and Sherk fights and it showed in his performance. I still have concerns about him fighting stronger wrestlers(Sherk didn't use his wrestling). I still think you can break BJ's will by establishing dominate positions and that is his weakness.

BJ is fine on bottom as long as it isn't GSP on top.

OUSOONERSOU wrote:

As long as BJ comes into the fight in shape he is one tough dude. He looked very motivated in the Kenny and Sherk fights and it showed in his performance. I still have concerns about him fighting stronger wrestlers(Sherk didn't use his wrestling). I still think you can break BJ's will by establishing dominate positions and that is his weakness.

This is ignoring Penn's takedown defense. the strong wrestlers that have beaten him were stronger because they reside in a higher weight class then 155.

I still think Sherk, Maynard and Sanchez have chances to keep him down and dictate the fight.