Forget BJ, has Penn EVER fought anyone as good as Yair??

[KillerIsBack V2]

Forget all the BJ nut hugging... just LOOK at Yair. Who the hell has BJ fought and defeated in his career who is athletic, explosive , skilled, and deadly as Yair ?

Who ? Pulver? Stevenson? Sherk? Sanchez?

Give me a break. It's like BJ fanboys can't accept the fact that BJ was great for his time when fighters often had full time jobs and MMA gyms where no were near as refined as the fighter labs that exist now.

Put another way : can you honestly say with a straight face even a 100% prime BJ Penn could have done ANYTHING against a modern fine tuned deadly fighter like Yair ?

I wish people would take off thier rose tinted glasses and accept the fact BJ was never as great as people make him out to be. He's been surpassed multiple times over by a plethora of fighters.

GSP is a great example of a fighter who evolved with the times and had the skill and ability to keep up with the current landscape. BJ Penn never had the skills to compete with today's breed of fighter. He just never did. He was just at the right place at the right time

You disrespectful little fuck!
You know who ended Hughes' legendary WW streak? Bj Penn. and he beat him twice too.
BJ is an old fart now in athlete age, ffs!
Yair was also KOed in the first round by a nobody bum early in his career. Does that also mean anything? NO!

Let's just see how the kid does later on before we start Sage Northcut level hype all over again... We all know how that one ended...sigh

 

[Quebec Nick]

Come on guys, get some basic reading classes

''Who the hell has BJ fought and defeated in his career who is athletic, explosive , skilled, and deadly as Yair ?''

Stop talking about GSP, Machida, Rory, Diaz...

But still, back then Hughes was way better than that Yair guy

BJ is just slow, lazy and predictable nowadays.

 

[Darkart]

Not a BJ fan at all, but BJ fought much better guys, guys that would MERK Yair, it's called getting old. Prime BJ, who was much stronger, would have bitch tossed Yair to the ground and choked him out.

 

[GordoBarraBJJ]

Not to forget Rory. Which makes the list even more insane and OP's point even more retarded.

Agreed - forgot about that.

And also add BJ is in reality an average sized 145 and a small 155 and went up and fought actual weight cutting 170lbs fighters - not out of shape 155'ers.