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With fights down the road against top contenders like Kenny Florian and Thiago Alves, Penn insists it's not about titles necessarily, but finding the right opponents, and he knows UFC president Dana White will do anything to make the super fights happen.
"It's really about the particular match-up," answered Penn when asked if it's about weight class or just fighting the best regardless of weight. "People like to watch good fights, everybody wants to see the best guys compete. In boxing, like Dana says, a million times it never got to happen.
"No matter what you say about Dana, or anybody says about him, he really does try to put the two best guys together and he has proven it time and time again. If he could get Fedor to fight one of his guys, within whatever his ideas are someone under their contract, he would try to put the best fight together that he could."
It's also been brought up numerous times that if Penn is able to defeat St. Pierre, fans around the world could ask for a match-up pitting him against who many regard as the pound-for-pound king, Anderson Silva. White continuously insists that the fight between Penn and Silva would not happen, and the current lightweight champion says it may be harder to make happen than what some people think.
"Honestly, 185's not even on my mind right now. And it's like the more you talk to Anderson Silva, the more he's such a nice guy, the more you don't want to fight him. He is just the nicest person," stated Penn.
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Post #1 1/30/09 10:42:38AM
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Honestly, 185's not even on my mind right now. And it's like the more you talk to Anderson Silva, the more he's such a nice guy, the more you don't want to fight him. He is just the nicest person," stated Penn.
thats probably bc he doesn't want to lose to the spider! lol but all his fights should be huge unless he suddenly sucks and loses all skill and atheletism.
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Post #2 1/30/09 1:13:40PM
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Posted by SmileR
"Honestly, 185's not even on my mind right now. And it's like the more you talk to Anderson Silva, the more he's such a nice guy, the more you don't want to fight him. He is just the nicest person," stated Penn.
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Post #3 1/30/09 2:56:30PM
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Posted by SmileR
"Honestly, 185's not even on my mind right now. And it's like the more you talk to Anderson Silva, the more he's such a nice guy, the more you don't want to fight him. He is just the nicest person," stated Penn.
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Yeah, GSP is such a dick...
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Post #4 1/30/09 2:59:12PM
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Big fights in the lightweight division........
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Post #5 1/30/09 4:18:22PM
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How many big fights can they make after he gets destroyed by GSP and beat by Ken Flo. I cant wait to see all the BJ fans on this site eat thier words tonight.
WAR GSP!!!
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Post #6 1/31/09 11:40:51AM
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Well he has been talking a lot of smack on this fight....And i never heard BJ back out of a fight with anyone. He must be scared of spider....
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Posted by Natedogg42
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"Honestly, 185's not even on my mind right now. And it's like the more you talk to Anderson Silva, the more he's such a nice guy, the more you don't want to fight him. He is just the nicest person," stated Penn.
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Yeah, GSP is such a dick...
You said it not me
Tonight the Canadian blood gets licked off of the Hawaiian gloves, I can't wait
(and why is it all right if I mention he's Canadian but not if I mention he's french?)
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Post #8 1/31/09 2:55:49PM
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Posted by JimiMak
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Posted by SmileR
"Honestly, 185's not even on my mind right now. And it's like the more you talk to Anderson Silva, the more he's such a nice guy, the more you don't want to fight him. He is just the nicest person," stated Penn.
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Yeah, GSP is such a dick...
You said it not me
Tonight the Canadian blood gets licked off of the Hawaiian gloves, I can't wait
(and why is it all right if I mention he's Canadian but not if I mention he's french?)
You realize I was being sarcastic, right?
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