Why couldn't top WW's knockout BJ Penn, but the FW who stopped BJ couldn't stop a C level BW?

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Rory and Nick who are huge welterweight's couldn't stop BJ who was stopped by two featherweight in his last 2 fights. On the other hand Yair couldn't finish or even hurt Alex Caceres for 5 rounds, who got ko'd stiff by a low level bantamweight in Francisco Rivera.
 
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Are you seriously?

How old was BJ Penn back then?

Feed Yair to Rory. He will KO him in one round
 
Because the WWs fought a younger and still not completely pass his prime Penn.
 
I had the same identical question TS. Turns out, as a friend explained, it's this stuff we call "aging". Links below. It's wild. Apparently we all do this even if we don't know. It's so slow you can't see it happening with your bare eyes, so you'd need pics taken at different dates to compare.

For a shocker, compare pics of you 15 yrs ago (assuming you were on the planet) with pics of you now. Wild, eh?

Links:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ageing

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-truth-about-human-agi/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK10041/
 
I don't know about Nick, but I'm certain Rory could have stopped him but for whatever reason he didn't. The fact that Penn went so long without being knocked out or dropped is amazing.
 
I had the same identical question TS. Turns out, as a friend explained, it's this stuff we call "aging". Links below. It's wild. Apparently we all do this even if we don't know. It's so slow you can't see it happening with your bare eyes, so you'd need pics taken at different dates to compare.

For a shocker, compare pics of you 15 yrs ago (assuming you were on the planet) with pics of you now. Wild, eh?

Links:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ageing

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-truth-about-human-agi/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK10041/

You don't need a PHD in bro science to understand it. Sadly, for some reasons, some people will just never understand it
 
Because now, he is old and slow. His punches used to be fast but now they're as slow as Hendo's.
 
Because Yair is the evolution of the game, BJ Penn is still in his prime he's only 38. BJ just didnt evolve to Yair's level
 
Well Yair has demonic kicks, it will always be a trouble for everybody in that division, he sets them up pretty well.

As much as Yair is the flavor of the month : He relies too much on kicks to finish his fights. His boxing is subpar. Decent, could stop fights with it, but yeah, there are better hands at FW.

Against Bruce Leeroy he relied too much in closing distance and striking him, and as i said, his boxing isn't his main KO weapon. Bruce is a lanky dude, hard to close distance and land a good one on him. pretty sure BJ wouldn't KO him either.

Now, one thing he exploited perfectly : the tendency that BJ, much like a shitload of old schoolers have, to keep their head static at centerline after striking. And when you're older, you're much slower, so you're even more static.

Front kicks are the best weapon to capitalize on it, you can throw it from a good distance, if you hit the ball of the foot right at the chin, nobody is going to survive that. If it catches them by surprise is almost 100% KO chance. Anybody giving Yair space enough to be creative with his kicks, will suffer.
 
You don't need a PHD in bro science to understand it. Sadly, for some reasons, some people will just never understand it

Yeah, I spent hours one night looking in the mirror, looking away and looking back and seeing if I could catch it in action. Tricky stuff. I knew it was happening but it was like I just couldn't pin it down.....

A friend told me I needed to do it with photos, not a mirror. I felt like such a dork. I still wonder why she let me stay up for hours doing that before finally telling me. There were weird sounds coming from the room the whole time. I heard the window open, she started masturbating, making a lot of groaning sounds and such and shaking up the bed, then when she came, she apparently opened and closed the window again and finally came and got me.

Anyway, I'm just glad she taught me about this stuff we call "aging"....
 
Age + weight cut = death via kickpunch
 
Every fight is different. BJ has only gone more downhill from where he was back then. BJ is also known for fading as the fight progresses. I'm sure Rory and Nick could have stopped BJ that night. I would be surprised if even Diego Sanchez could have stopped BJ yestetrday, especially with a 5 rounder.
 

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