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BJPENN.COM News - April 1, 2013

“B.J. got introduced to me through Bobby Southworth, who was friends with B.J. when B.J. started practicing Brazilian jiu-jitsu at Ralph Gracie’s in Mountain View. But, he came to me to train because he knew I trained Frank Shamrock. B.J. was incredible to teach. Everything I taught him, he picked it up as though he had known it forever. His level of progression was one of the best I have ever trained. What I think he learned from me is how to run his own training camp.” Flash from the past…

bjpenndotcom - April 1, 2013

After sustaining a cut above his eye while training, Alexander Gustafsson’s status for his upcoming fight against Gegard Mousasi this Saturday has been a big question mark. It appears the suspense surrounding the situation can now be put to rest, at least for the time being. MMAFighting’s Ariel Helwani  recently posted on Twitter that UFC President Dana White had told him the following:

bjpenndotcom - March 31, 2013

Opening up the second hour of show 183 is a woman known as Lights Out and did I mention that she is also a first in the sport with her sister. We have one half of the first set of twins to compete in MMA and it’s Jocelyn Lybarger. We have so much to talk about with Jocelyn; from how her and Jillian got started in the sport, training at the MMA Lab, her upcoming fight for King of the Cage Saturday May 25th, and of course the recent support of Ronda Rousey for both twins to be placed on the upcoming Invicta FC card. Jocelyn is set to try out for the upcoming season of The Ultimate Fighter so you know that we will of course talk her getting ready and the possibility of her and her sister both making the show. Make sure to get over to Twitter and follow Jocelyn @mmajocelyn

bjpenndotcom - March 29, 2013

Two UFC featherweight stand outs will come together, in what should make an exciting stand up battle, when Cub Swanson and Dennis Siver meet at UFC 162.

bjpenndotcom - March 28, 2013

Firas Zahabi, head trainer at Tristar Gym in Montreal, Quebec Canada, recently responded to accusations made against Georges St Pierre from the Diaz camp.

Julien Solomita - March 28, 2013

A new featherweight bout has been added to the June 8 Fuel TV card likely to take place in Brazil. Rodrigo Damm (10-6, 1-1 UFC) faces Mizuto Hirota (14-6-1, 0-1 UFC). The fight has not yet been made official by the UFC, but was first reported by Tatame.com. Damm could very well be fighting for his job, given he has dropped three of his last four fights. Hirota lost his UFC featherweight debut to Rani Yahya at UFC on Fuel 8, and with two straight losses, the Japanese scrapper has his back against the wall in this fight as well.

BJPENN.COM News - March 28, 2013

If you missed last night’s BJPENN.COM RADIO, UFC lightweight fighter, Josh Thomson joined the crew to discuss next months fight against Nate Diaz. His upcoming movie release and much more. Use the player above to catch the full segment with Thomson.

BJPENN.COM News - March 28, 2013

Last night the BJPENN.COM RADIO crew returned to action with UFC on fOX 7 fighter Josh Thomson and Bellator light-heavyweight, King Mo. If you missed the live show you can use the player above to catch the full archived audio.

BJPENN.COM News - March 28, 2013

“If they’re going to allow him (Overeem) to use it, what are you going to do? For sure I’m going to be angry. Because it happens, this test that he did with his testosterone, yes? It was a low level, right? You know why? Because he stops taking these things. So then he did the test [laughs] and comes back to take the things.” “Testosterone don’t win the fight, (not) Chael Sonnen, (not) Overeem — a lot of guys use testosterone and they don’t win the fight.”

BJPENN.COM News - March 28, 2013

“I respect Vinny a lot. I respect all the guys in my weight class, all the guys in the UFC. All of them are skilled fighters — we’re the best in the world. I take him very seriously, but, he’s going to regret asking to fight me. Some lessons have to be learned the hard way. You wanted this fight, you got it. Another thing is, I’m a giving person, if there is something you need, just ask me for it. You want to fight me? Boom, you got it. Make a wish? Boom, Merry Christmas, you got me.”

bjpenndotcom - March 28, 2013

BJPENN.COM News - March 28, 2013

By Evan Stoumbelis

BJPENN.COM News - March 27, 2013

UFC 159 headliner Chael Sonnen on why he deserves the title shot, how he plans to win, and why he’s not apologizing for a thing on the way.

BJPENN.COM News - March 27, 2013

“I don’t feel like he should be stripped of the belt. The guy’s earned it. Part of the reason why he’s injured is because he puts it all out there and hits like a weirdo, but he throws punches anyways. I wouldn’t count the guy out. I don’t think they should strip him of the title…. He’s still, in my opinion, considered the champion. I don’t think you strip a guy of the belt. I would be pissed if they stripped me of the belt.”

BJPENN.COM News - March 27, 2013

BJPENN.COM News - March 27, 2013

“There are a lot of danger zones with Chael. Chael is tougher than a lot of people give him credit for. When we didn’t want to fight him on three days notice or whatever, we’d never fight anybody on such short notice for somebody at Jon Jones level. People think he doesn’t have any punching power, but then you see him drop Anderson Silva. Once he gets on top of you, it’s trouble, and a lot of guys can’t seem to get around that ground and pound style, so if you don’t do things correctly with him, you get in trouble real quick. We have to make sure we take him very seriously. He’s a very tough opponent and he’s very smart. He’s going to try to negate the length and push the fight forward, and we have to be ready for that. We have to be ready for a 25 minute, all out war. He’s going to try to wear Jon down with his cardio. We have to be ready for all of those eventualities to make sure that Jon is on point and ready and can execute his gameplan. It’s not going to be an easy fight.”

BJPENN.COM News - March 27, 2013

As the Mauler prepares to headline the UFC’s return to Sweden in April, Light Heavyweight contender Alexander Gustafsson shows off his family’s crib in the Swedish countryside that includes an unusual place for a gym.

BJPENN.COM News - March 27, 2013

“Yeah, I watched most of that fight. It went very much as I expected it to go. It was a little bit lackluster, nothing to write home about. Georges is very good at what he does, but a lot of his fights aren’t really very exciting.” Former UFC welterweight interim champion, Carlos Condit, tells Steph Daniels over at Bloodyelbow.com that he wasn’t all that impressed with the main event between GSP and Nick Diaz.