BJ Penn: ‘Being the champ is fake’
BJ Penn “…When I first started fighting, I thought I was God’s gift to fighting. I thought I would go…
BJ Penn
“…When I first started fighting, I thought I was God’s gift to fighting. I thought I would go win 100 in a row with 100 knockouts. I just sit back and I look at my record and I can’t believe that I have six losses. It just blows me away.
“But every time that you get a loss, you take a different path and you get back on the right journey of why you started this thing in the first place, because it’s a journey of never ending…you never stop learning.
“And I do believe, if of course I won that fight, I would have changed nothing in my game and set myself up to fall even harder in the future. And I really think that that was a blessing for me and now my game can keep evolving and not stay there and become extinct.”
“…I think every fighter should have that same motivation to want to finish because it puts more money in all of our pockets and it builds the UFC and it just makes everybody happy all the way around, you know.
“There is a lot of controversy with people taking the fight out of ultimate fighting, you know, and they really want to go to decision and they feel happy with that.
“I definitely see that trend and another trend I see is every fighter looks the same. Every fighter looks exactly the same. It’s just crazy now but I guess that’s just the future of the sport and that’s how the sport is evolved.
“Nobody wants to be on their back because, you know, even if the guy doesn’t do one bit of damage, you’re still going to lose the fight and that is really affecting how the fighters fight. Because the judges, as we all know, they don’t know what they’re doing.
“it’s just – the whole judging – I don’t think anyone should get points for any other (grappling) position. It’s like…what’s the sense of taking (Demian Maia) down and why should you get points for that and why should you get points for mounting James Toney? You know, it just doesn’t make sense to me. It’s just all about damage and submission attempts. That’s the only things that really matter in the fight.”
Frankie Edgar
“I am a Yankees fan. That might cost me some fans right now but yeah, I’m a Yankees fan.”
BJ Penn
“You know, when you hear people say you’re the greatest lightweight of all time and this and that and this and that, it’s bullshit. It’s not real. It’s fake. Being the champ is fake, all of that is all fake.
“You just go out there, you’ve got to keep training, keeping training as hard as you can and keep winning fights. The only thing that’s real is the fight. Everything else is fake.”
BJ Penn on Couture vs. Toney
“And you know what? People get confused. People think all of this hype and they think all of these things. They think Chael Sonnen is serious when he’s saying all of this stuff. They think James Toney’s serious when he’s saying all of this stuff.
“They’re hyping up their fight and they’re doing their job, you know? And you know what? It would be nice (to see Toney do well). I want to see James Toney go out there and do something.”
“I could care less about that fight, to tell you the truth.”