{"id":204377,"date":"2016-09-17T05:36:27","date_gmt":"2016-09-17T12:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=204377"},"modified":"2016-09-17T05:36:27","modified_gmt":"2016-09-17T12:36:27","slug":"exclusive-bj-penn-reacts-to-potential-fights-with-aldo-pettis-and-holloway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/exclusive-interviews\/exclusive-bj-penn-reacts-to-potential-fights-with-aldo-pettis-and-holloway\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive | BJ Penn Reacts to Potential Fights with Aldo, Pettis and Holloway"},"content":{"rendered":"

In just one month’s time, former two-division UFC champion BJ Penn will make his long-awaited return to the Octagon<\/a>. He’ll be taking on the talented Ricardo Lamas<\/a> in the five-round, featherweight main event<\/a> of the UFC’s October 15 return to the Philippines.<\/p>\n

Should Penn win this bout with Lamas, who has long stood out as one of the best featherweights in the world, he’ll take a massive step up the divisional ladder, where bouts with monsters like Jose Aldo<\/a>, Anthony Pettis and Max Holloway<\/a> could await.<\/p>\n

In advance of his bout with Lamas, BJ Penn offered up his thoughts on these potential future match-ups in an exclusive interview with BJPenn.com’s “Rapid Fire<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Penn first touched\u00a0on a possible bout with interim featherweight champion Jose Aldo, who is ruling the division in the absence of undisputed champ Conor McGregor.\u00a0Penn explained\u00a0that because he’s trained with Aldo in the past, this is a fight he’ll avoid unless Aldo holds the division’s undisputed title.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know what, I don\u2019t wanna go out there and challenge Jose Aldo,” Penn said. “I would never want to see Andre Pederneiras standing across the ring from me. I guess those are like his kids over there. That\u2019s all stuff where we\u2019re going to have to cross that bridge when we get there. Right now Jose Aldo is not the [undisputed] champion, so we\u2019re not focused on him in any way.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Next up, Penn weighed in on the recent featherweight arrival of Anthony Pettis, saying he’s happy to have the dynamic former lightweight champion in the division.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s good that he\u2019s out there in the division, waking the division up,” Penn explained. “We\u2019ve got a lot of good fighters [at featherweight], and you know, Pettis is another big name out there in the division and it\u2019s great for us all of us. It\u2019s great for all of us fighters in the featherweight division.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Finally, Penn gave his thoughts on fellow Hawaiian Max Holloway, who is currently on a division-best nine-fight streak.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s an awesome win-streak,” Penn said of Holloway’s recent run. “I didn\u2019t know he had a nine-fight win-streak, that\u2019s pretty good man.\u00a0 That\u2019s pretty tough to do in the UFC. Max Holloway, that\u2019s another one too. He\u2019s out there, he\u2019s one of the top guys. He\u2019s great, he\u2019s real fast, he\u2019s a good height, got good size, good range for the division, he\u2019s another one of the great fighters out there.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In the end, however, Penn expects he’ll have to face all three of the aforementioned fighters on his way to earning a world title in his third UFC weight class.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the end, I\u2019m probably going to have to fight all these guys. We don\u2019t know who\u2019s going to end up with the title, but I\u2019m just focused on who has the title, and making that third run to the world championship.”<\/em><\/p>\n

“I\u2019m just really excited and I want to get this third title. I talked to Greg Jackson and he was like \u2018man, then you can really relax and think about all the accomplishments after you get that third world title.\u2019 And in my head, I 100% know I\u2019m going to get that [featherweight] belt.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How do you think BJ Penn matches up with Jose Aldo, Anthony Pettis and Max Holloway? Sound off, PENN nation!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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