UFC 137 Video: B.J. Penn Challenges Cesar Gracie, Admits to Being 'Hookwinked' By Him
by Tim Burke on Oct 27, 2011 6:00 PM EDT
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B.J. Penn is a mature adult now and doesn't want to talk smack. That's fine, and I applaud that decision. Penn is usually a pretty honest guy though, and in an interview with Ariel Helwani of MMA Fighting, he aims his honesty in the direction of a guy that he thinks might have 'hoodwinked' him - Cesar Gracie, manager of Nick Diaz and a guy B.J. has trained with in the past. He even offers to go five rounds with him. Here's the telling quote:
"Dana called us...it's a funny story actually. Dana called us and said 'Cesar just called me and said they would love that they would love to fight Nick Diaz. I mean, that him and Nick Diaz would love to fight you, and that's the fight they want. So I texted Cesar. I said 'Dana just said you would love to fight us, and this and that's the fight you want'. And I guess, I don't know, maybe Cesar didn't wanna say that he said that. He texted me back and said 'Laugh out loud, Dana just told us the same thing'. So I ended up thinking Dana's trying to set me up and make it into a personal thing, but it was really Cesar. Cesar was...Cesar hoodwinked me, I guess."
He goes onto explain that he talked it out with Dana and White made it clear that it was Cesar's idea. This stuff with Cesar and Dana actually led to the drama surrounding Penn's comments about White during the whole Countdown fiasco last month. But as B.J puts it, "it was Cesar all along". He also responded to Gracie's talk about wanting a five round fight between Penn and Diaz:
"If Cesar wants the five rounds so bad, me and Cesar can do a five round fight. Any time, anywhere, whenever he feels like it."
Penn goes on to discuss why he likes watching Nick Diaz, the possibility of going back to 155, and even admits he's a huge Hulk Hogan fan and sings some of his theme song. You can check the video after the jump.
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I'd watch it.
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Great take
/crumbles paper
/6 seconds of dead air
/makes same point he has made 5 times already
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by Farthammer on Oct 27, 2011 9:43 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
There is so much weirdness around this fight, so much hesitation by both Diaz and Penn.
So I figure this fight will end up being really strange, or it will be the most awesome fight in all of awesomedom.
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It's going to be a tecnical version of Frye and whats his name
The giant Japanese pro wrestler guy. Damn what is his name?
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Takayama dammit!
Sheesh. I knew that but I kept typing Akiyama and I was thinking “wtf?”.
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Takayama was fun to watch but damn he was an ugly mofo.
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by CasualMMAFan on Oct 27, 2011 8:01 PM EDT up reply actions
There are gonna be BRO-HUGS!
It’s going to be terrible. Everyone laughs at me when I say this, because it is the sort of thing that should never happen. But I just have this terrible feeling that Diaz and Penn are gonna get all bromancey.
Hopefully I am wrong.
by Lauren J Darkbloom on Oct 27, 2011 7:06 PM EDT up reply actions
MMA dream time.
I had a dream the night of the Penn/Diaz announcement that BJ won a split decision with leg kicks and after the fight, they were all, good fight bro.
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Interesting
I see BE has started linking Helwani interviews again…
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are you saying
that now fagan is fired that ariel is now allowing his videos to be used by BE again?
You said it, not me
but Ariel gets a lot of great access and gets good interviews so I’m happy, even if he doesn’t have Luke’s booming voice
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fagan got fired?
For what? being too awesome at twiq? What’s the deal?
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by the-gentle-way on Oct 28, 2011 3:12 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
We were doing it before that. One has nothing to do with the other.
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Me too
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by Shoguns Hairy Forearms. on Oct 28, 2011 4:40 PM EDT up reply actions
Literacy
Not to be a grammar nazi, but I can’t help but mention the need for a proof read before publishing an article.
I have been to Cesar's before
He is an awesome instructor (based on only one day, but still), and he was a really cool guy. And the guys at Ralph’s all said nothing but amazing things about him.
But…I think he gets too involved and should maybe quiet down sometimes.
Then again, his fighters aren’t exactly the boisterous type, so maybe he gets all loud and in front of the cameras because he has to?
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