UFC UFN Thread

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No one has seen conclusive evidence either way.

The way Penn starts the third round, with his hands at his sides, most people agree that its probably something more than just gassing. Penn couldn't walk back to his corner after the second round, he basically had to crawl.

General consensus at this point is that Penn was probably hurt and gassed both, in some combination. maybe not as serious as a separated rib (defintely didn't break a rib, reportedly he separated a rib which isn't the same at all) maybe just a pulled muscle in his side, whatever. These kind of injuries to the rib area are pretty common when dealing with a significantly stronger wrestler trying to keep someone pinned, which is definitely what happened to Penn in the second round as Hughes was trying to hold him down when Penn slipped around and started to take Hughes' back/etc.

Who knows if we'll ever know. Hopefully, though, we'll see BJ Penn refocus even more and come back again. He's such a tremendously skilled fighter, if he'd up his conditioning he'd be very very dominant at whatever weight class he wanted to fight at. I'd like to see a rubber match with Hughes very much, but would also like to see Penn dominate at lightweight as well.

/hijack