{"id":242814,"date":"2017-06-22T06:57:15","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T13:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=242814"},"modified":"2017-06-22T06:58:23","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T13:58:23","slug":"bj-penn-opens-marinovich-reuinion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/exclusive-interviews\/bj-penn-opens-marinovich-reuinion\/","title":{"rendered":"BJ Penn explains choice to reunite with Marinovich for Dennis Siver training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of his Sunday night Oklahoma City showdown with Dennis Siver, our own <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/fighter\/bj-penn\/\">BJ Penn <\/a>has been training with a familiar face in Gary Marinovich. Alongside his brother Marv, Marinovich helped Penn author his defeats of Kenny Florian and Diego Sanchez \u2013 two of the most impressive wins of his career.<\/p>\n<p>On the latest episode of <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/podcasts\/bjpenn-com-radio-ep-38-alexander-volkanovski-ray-sefo-colby-covington-bj-penn\/\">BJ Penn Radio<\/a>, Penn broke down his choice to train with Marinovich in Hilo, rather than remaining with Greg Jackson and Mike Winkeljohn in Albuquerque.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cOne of the hardest things to do is sit down and watch your last fight, but I decided \u2018I gotta see what happened out there, I gotta see how I got picked apart,'&#8221; Penn said, referencing his January TKO loss to Yair Rodriguez. &#8220;The first thing I thought, right as I started watching it, I was like \u2018man you\u2019re slow. BJ, you\u2019re slow.\u2019 I couldn\u2019t believe how slow I was. I almost fell into a depression being like \u2018man you\u2019re so slow.\u2019 From there, I thought, &#8216;what can you do?&#8217; I know you get old and you get slow and things happen and this and that. And then it just hit me. I said \u2018call Marinovich, all they do is speed.\u2019 We gotta get training. \u00a0So I called Marinovich, started doing his Marinovich training system and I feel just as good as I\u2019ve ever been. But I\u2019m not going to sit here and make you take my word for it. Watch the fight on Sunday and make your opinion about what\u2019s going on.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe Marinovich brothers, they\u2019re just the best at what they do,\u201d Penn continued. \u201cMarv is one of the guys who helped start the NFL combine. He was a strength and conditioning coach for the Los Angeles raiders for a long time. And I guess Marv\u2019s thing is, him and his brother Gary \u2013 Gary is actually up in Oklahoma with me right now, we\u2019re going to build a couple warmups to wake my body up on Friday and Saturday before the fights \u2013 but Marv started noticing that the guys with the strongest bench press, the strong squats, the strongest deadlifts, they weren\u2019t the starters. And he started putting more emphasis into agility, balance, and speed. And that\u2019s where they came up with the Marinovich training system.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Penn then explained why he opted to stay in Hilo for this fight, rather than venture back to Albuquerque.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cI ended up spending all my time in Hilo,\u201d he said. \u201cI feel kind of bad, we never really got to talk to Greg Jackson or Winkeljohn after [the Rodriguez loss], because we had it in our heads like \u2018hey let\u2019s go do it again, one more time.\u2019 Then the UFC put fight together with Siver. But I kind of stayed in Hilo. The real truth is that I left for a year and a half for my last fight. My kids grew up a year and a half older, and I got back and I was like \u2018man, I can\u2019t stay away from them.\u2019 So I talked to Marv and Gary, and they said they could come down, and me and Rudy got back together. So, I\u2019m real sad I\u2019m not with Winkeljohn, Greg Jackson or Jason Parillo, but you know, I\u2019m over here, I\u2019m in great hands. I really think the training with Marinovich is going to make a big difference. I\u2019m with my old trainer [Rudy Valentino], one of the most comfortable people I\u2019ve ever been around. He knows exactly what I like, and he knows how to get the most out of me.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How do you think BJ Penn will look in Oklahoma City this Sunday?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 6\/22\/2017.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of his Sunday night Oklahoma City showdown with Dennis Siver, our own BJ Penn has been training with a familiar face in Gary Marinovich. Alongside his brother Marv, Marinovich helped Penn author his defeats of Kenny Florian and Diego Sanchez \u2013 two of the most impressive wins of his career. 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