Monday, January 4, 2010

Time to get BJ Penn some Overseas Challengers

All this talk about BJ Penn fighting Gray Maynard or Frankie Edgar or Kenny Florian again is absolutely ridiculous. Penn should be fighting either Shinya Aoki or Eddie Alvarez (or another top ten overseas fighter). The problem is none of those guys are in the UFC so Penn is stuck with Maynard or Edgar who are both huge underdogs and no where near deserving of the title shot. It's a shame that the best fights out there for Penn may never happen. Wouldn't it be huge to see Aoki versus Penn, the best submission artist in the game (Aoki) against the best stand up boxer in MMA (Penn). Not to mention Penn is also a jiu jitsu world champion. Aoki is ranked number two on Sherdog.com with Penn at number one. How about Penn against number three ranked Eddie Alvarez? Another super exciting fight that I would be very interested in watching. The more likely scenario is that Penn moves up to welterweight and makes a move to challenge for the welterweight title again. That would be a huge loss for all MMA fans. It's odd that Dana White says it would be a shame if we couldn't see Floyd Mayweather versus Manny Pacquiao. I say it would be a shame if we can't see Penn vs Aoki, Gegard Mousasi vs Lyoto Machida or Fedor Emelianenko vs Brock Lesnar.

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