LET THE PENN LOVING BEGIN!!! GSP via domination in every aspect of the fight! After this fight, I hope BJ finally realizes he needs to stay at 155!

only reason BJ lost to Hughes was because he was out of shape. If Bj comes into this fight in great shape then this has the potential to be one of the best fights of 2009. Athleticism goes to GSP, Mental toughness, flexibility, and innate ability goes to BJ. Can’t wait! GSP by decision!

Poster is the best UFC poster Ive seen…Cant wait for this one. BJ by UD.

The poster could be better. Doesn’t really stand out or catch your attention.

The stikforce poster is pretty sick

but yea, naked ladies would be nice!!!

should be a great fight! BJ needs to keep it standing.. If GSP is able to put BJ on his back we could very well see a bloodied up BJ from GSP elbows..

GSP’s improvments are leaps and bounds ahead of everyone in MMA, let alone BJ Penn. Even if no improvements were made by either, GSP already won. I can’t see Penn making it past the 2nd round, he will be in no shape to continue heading into the third. It’ll be messy.

Let’s not forget that GSP not only earned his black belt recently, but he is a different fighter since their last fight. The real question is whether BJ Penn has upped his game as much since their last outing.

Are you guys kidding me!!! Cant wait til Feb 1st so i can read all the reasons why BJ randomly won via dumb luck and twinkies, retarded. “BJ should realize that he belongs at 155” he would b*tch slap your mama and im sure shes pushing 205 = ) Looking forward to all your excuses for George come Feb 1st, BJ BJ BJ!!!

Oh and Jackel doesnt know sh*t, apparently = ) BJ lose his strap?? What the hell are you talking about dude, GSP fans are full of wealthy knowledge on all aspects of MMA LoL!! Lose his strap!!?!? Go back to your red wine and hockey game and leave the MMA talk to us real fans. BJ BJ BJ!!!

if you move up a weight class you should have to fight your way to the belt. bj should have to face Kos, Diego, Fitch, etc maybe even 2 before even going for the belt. same goes for GSP moving up to face Anderson Silva unless its a non title fight at a catch weight or something.

I am a big fan of BJ but i don’t take away that GSP is one of the best in mma. I can wait for this fight. however, i would say Bj on the second round by submission.

gsp will come in this fight with the perfect game plan again and put bj that he dont want to be…

I’m gonna go crazy here and gaurantee victory, BJ PENN!

Where can i buy this poster?

Man! I keep tired of all these BJ nut jugglers saying he is the best and the only reason he lost was because his cardio failed him when he was a WW. Breaking news: “cardio is a part of being a good fighter”. If you have the skill set but not cardio then guess what? you’ll never be pound for pound. It would be like saying Travis Lutter is the best MW on the planet and the only reason he lost to AS and RF is because his cardio failed him but in the first round he dominated. Come on people just give GSP the credit he deserves for winning their first match up and is BJ wants to win and believes he got the better skills, then he needs to get his ass in the gym and work hard like GSP does

I find it hilarious when people guarantee a victory in this sport, there are no guarantees, and guaranteeing penn will beat gsp just show’s flat out MMA ignorance. Is penn superman or something? does he have magical powers? I’m a huge gsp nut hugger and know he could lose to any top ten but feel over all he’s the best fighter, except for thiago alves who I can’t say gsp is better than because they haven’t fought yet. One thing I notice on this site is how very few bloggers are objective when looking at a fight, they must be new or haven’t seen all of the fights of each fighter. Penn could win but he could also lose, just like he did the first time, if you don’t realize that you’re a fool. All I say is I think gsp will win and hope he does but I don’t think for a minute that he can’t lose, if your human you can lose. There both top, talented, very high level fighters its not like both guys are fighting tomato cans like joe average, I’m sure it will be a very competitive fight, and feel it will be similar to the first one without gsp bleeding so much. But then again it could be over quickly with either a quick t(ko) or a sub who knows, I really hope it’s at least a 3 or 4 round war and lives up to the hype and no one gets injure or we’ll never hear the end of this.

Bjs should stick with LW he barley beat sherk in a stand up battle and sherk is horrible at stand up. GSP destroyed sherk. Hope to see you at the fight, or are you just a computer geek wanna be fan.

wanna know what bothers me about this fight the fact that bj can just walk into the 170 pound division and get a shot at the champ right away its bullshit bj penn has nothing to lose he is not going to loss his belt when he losses to gsp its bad fight for georges for that fact alone even though i think he will beat the shit out of bj i still think it should be a non title fight if he wants a shot at the title i think he should have had to fight some people before either way GSP all the way

bj has nothing to lose in this fight unlike gsp whos puting his belt on the line bj should stay at 155 and fight all those good fighters and let gsp defend his title against guys like thiago alvez.

bj is greedy and wants all the belts. and now his talkin shit on gsp saying he uses steroids. i used to like bj alot but not anymore

I’m less interested in who people think is going to win, then how they think each guy might win. IMO, Penn is going to have to push the pace and put pressure on GSP from the start to get the victory. I don’t think he can win if it goes the distance, and GSP has a way of getting comfortable in a fight and getting stronger as it progresses.

But BJ is one of the few guys who could force GSP out of his comfort zone and actually dictate the pace of the fight, something GSP is not used to at all. He can’t take GSP down, not unless he connects with some big shots, but he can lure him into some big exchanges standing that he can get the better of. He can make GSP desperate for the takedown and then stuff those takedowns, frustrating him a little.

Eventually, if GSP gets off balance due to getting the worse end of an exchange, Penn can take the fight to the ground and get control, maybe even get GSP’s back and finish him.

Granted, this is best case scenario for BJ, but since I want him to win, I’m trying to imagine the best approach for him, and what I keep getting is that he has to be super aggressive from the start.

We all know what GSP has to do. He has to be smart on his feet and not get into any crazy exchanges and then he needs to put his wrestling in gear and take BJ down and hold him down all night. GSP has the opportunity to try to ride him out to points a victory, whereas the onus is on Penn, IMO, to finish the fight.

I DONT GIVE A FUCK!! BJ ALL THE FUCKING WAY!!! WIN OR LOSE, ITS GONNA BE ONE HELL OF A FIGHT!!!!

BJ couldnt beat Hughes.

GSP mauled him with ease.

Fair enough BJ never used to be ‘commited’ or whatever to the sport (terrible excuse), but the records speak for themselves.

BJ submitted Hughes inside of one round when Matt Hughes was in his absolute prime and in the most psychologically dominant moment of his career. And he did it without Hughes doing anything of significance offensively in the fight. Zero. BJ got there before GSP and he beat him faster than GSP.

i love bj penn man, the dude is such a badass – amazing skills, killer instinct for miles, and that attitude he gives off just make him such a badass. BUT. he will lose to st. pierre this time, and i think he’ll get finished by rush. i just don’t see where he’s going to take georges and be able to hold him there. he definitely has a chance to fuck st. pierre’s face up again, but this isn’t a straight boxing match. st. pierre rd 3 tko.

I just can’t wait for this fight because all of this talk about GSP is to big and strong is really irritating the fuck out of me lol… God Damn! That’s what I love about this sport is you can prove mother fuckers wrong and once these two fighters get inside the octagon, we’ll see who gets their ass kicked. This fight is a complete toss up, both fighters have their advantages and disadvantages so we’ll see the result a couple of months from now.

To be honest this fight is hard to analysis as gsp looked so dominate and determined in his last 4 fights and penn looked very good in his last 3, and they did fight 2 and a half years ago, the more improved fighter should win. I for one didn’t think penn would lose to stevenson or pulver, sherk I wasn’t so sure about and thought his only chance was to win on points but penn tko’d him at the end of the third. This fight could be boring, with gsp laying on penn for most of the fight with penn effectively controlling gsp from the bottom, gsp might surprised most and outstrike penn and t(ko) him, or vice versa, penn win a decision which honestly would surprise me but the other scenarios wouldn’t. God I wish this fight was this weekend, I can’t take the suspence. I always feel nervous when gsp fights especially after the first serra fight, it would suck if he loses to penn, gsp definitely has more to lose with this fight, penn not so much he still has the light weight belt. But this is the fight everyone want’s to see, gsp wants it, the ufc wants it obviously PPV will be through the roof, penn wants it in the worst way, and all the die hard MMA fans want to see it considering all the controversy around the first fight. I actually don’t see penn going crazy in the first round like he did in the past and will try to size gsp up and pace the fight, and I’m sure gsp will have a great game plan and will try to do to penn what he did with serra only penn is much harder to take down than serra, has way better hands and is better off his back with his rubber legs. The more I think about it, it will be a tough fight for gsp, and on paper it should be the toughest of his career but the paper has a habit of been proven wrong all too often. MMA math dosn’t work,there are no guarantees in this sport, almost no two fights or rounds for than matter are the same. One thing I feel fairly confident in is gsp won’t be on his back much or at all in this fight, and penn will, they’ll be pretty even on there feet and it should be a competitive fight with gsp having the edge in the later rounds, thats how I see things feel free to disagree.

BJ has f*ckin fought Machida and hung with him. Size will not be a factor and BJ knows what he is stepping into. But all hellllllllll yeeeeeeeeaaa this event is going to be sahweet.

G.S.P in a landslide victory….

I’m a GSP fan and this is the fight I want to see more than any other. He’s just not big enough to handle Silva, and Penn more talented than any other LW. There’s no reason Penns belt should be on the line, any more than Silva’s belt should have been on the line when he went up to LHW, so long as he’s able to come down and defend his title shortly afterwards (as per Silva).

As for the fight, I can’t wait. These 2 are insanely talented, I’m sure Penn will show up in the best shape of his life with no excuses. I don’t see the fight staying upright too long, and see GSP on-top on the mat thanks to superior takedown and TD defense, but I can see him getting suckered into a stupid submission much like brock lesnar vs. MIR. As said above, +200 Penn is a bet i’d make.

This is the bottom line and I think a lot of people will agree with me…

Who cares if bj is worthy or not, who cares if GSP has more on the line…

This is going to be an absolutely amazing fight, everyone here that is complaining is probably going to purchase the fight because they want to see it. Maybe BJ isn’t wothy ect. but a quality fight like this is rare and if it’s possible to make happen then it should happen.

Ben,

your comment about Penn losing to Hughes and GSP whooping him has me a bit concerned… did you watch the Penn vs. Hughes “title fight” remember Penn took this fight on VERY short notice because GSP was hurt at the time, Penn was crushing Hughes for 2 rounds and IF (yes i know IF) there were 10 more seconds in the 2nd round, BJ submits with with a Triangle… at the end of the 2nd round Penn could hardly stand up from exhaustion and got put in a Crucifix … Penn has not gassed in a fight since… I don’t mind your having an opinion but that comment really needed to be backed up… If BJ has one more month to train, he too dominates Hughes in that fight,

Now all that being said, this fight will be very very interesting, BJ is training like a real champion now and not just relying on raw talent, and WOW did GSP look amazing in his past few fights!!!

Another thing, BJ has won the 1st two rounds of EVERY FIGHT IN HIS CAREER EXCEPT 3… Machida who outweighs him by almost 30 lbs, 2nd round to GSP in 1st fight and i can’t remember the third, but it is accurate statistic…

i think the Rev said it best talking about “how” someone finishes this fight… they are both so skilled and i believe BJ can outbox (ie jab and move) against GSP just like in the the first match to set the pace and take control… i believe that the first mistake on the ground is the end of this fight, they are both so skilled and quick to capitalize on mistakes,

Personally, they happen to be my two favorite fighters… but i am rooting for BJ here by rear naked choke in the 4th

but once again, it will be exciting and this “blogging” means nothing cause that is why they fight!!