![]() Bad enough a UFC Hall of Famer’s UFC record is now under. It’s bad enough Penn is already on a UFC record seven-fight losing streak. Lentz is coming off a loss in his last fight (to Charles Oliveira), but he’s still a highly competent professional fighter who has won five of his past eight bouts. But let’s keep this to the in-cage stuff for now.Īs of this writing, Penn is still linked to a bout with Nik Lentz, date and time TBD. The UFC already has plenty of reasons to cut the cord on its relationship with Penn, and we’ll get to those in a moment. Penn was attacked first in Hawaii street fight, family rep says The skill level shown in those strikes looks more like the punches a media member might throw if you cut ahead of him in the pre-fight dinner buffet than that of a championship fighter.ī.J. Only this time, Penn’s street foe, whose physique more closely resembles the guys sitting with laptops cageside than the fighters inside the octagon, drops Penn to the concrete with a two-piece combo. The second clip shows Penn in the street with the same man. Then the second video emerged, which was the fight that precipitated the previously released video. We’ve become used to such outbursts from the former UFC welterweight and lightweight champion, much as we did with Jason “Mayhem” Miller before him, whose troubled path Penn eerily follows. The first video released, which reportedly was the second altercation, showed Penn putting a beatdown on an unidentified, grounded man. Penn getting into separate altercations outside a Hawaiian establishment called the Lava Shack. This unwritten rule flashed into my mind Wednesday when two videos emerged of UFC Hall of Famer B.J. If they lost, and word spread around town a star wrestler was beat by a guy off the street, then people might start questioning whether wrestling was on the up-and-up. If a wrestler went out to a bar after the matches in, say, Shreveport, La., and ended up knocking out a guy who challenged him, that’s good for business. ![]() The logic was simple: Back then, the rasslin’ business went to ridiculous lengths to pretend what happened in the ring was a legitimate athletic competition. They used to have an unwritten rule back in the old-school days of professional wrestling: If you get into a street fight and lose, you also lose your job.
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