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Earlier this year, former UFC lightweight and welterweight champion and UFC Hall of Famer BJ Penn<\/a> made his long-awaited return to the Octagon. He did so against red hot featherweight prospect Yair Rodriguez.<\/p>\n

Though Penn fought valiantly, this fight unfortunately didn’t go his way, as he was finished by a volley of second-round Rodriguez strikes.<\/p>\n

Now several months removed from this fight, and days out from a chance at redemption opposite Dennis Siver,<\/a>\u00a0Penn looked back with host Kinch<\/a> on BJ Penn Radio<\/a>.<\/p>\n

One of his big regrets in the Rodriguez fight, he explained, is that he didn’t shoot for a takedown \u2013 something that worked very well for Frankie Edgar, who recently beat Rodriguez.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know what, looking back, it\u2019s just the way the fight got put together, and the way I was training for the fight,” Penn said of what went wrong. “But whatever, just looking back, why didn\u2019t I just slam him on his head like Frankie Edgar and just fuck him up on the ground? You know what I mean? I pushed him on the fence, but I didn\u2019t even grab his legs once. But you know, that\u2019s how I was training back then. I was training for some different stuff. Now it\u2019s the ABCs, the basics. But I believe I could have taken Yair down.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Penn then touched briefly on a possible future rematch with Rodriguez \u2013 something he says he’s interested in, but not dying for.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou never know what the future holds,” he said. “I\u2019m not running around saying \u2018I want to fight Yair,\u2019 but if we ever got back in the ring again with each other, then we\u2019ll see how it goes.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Do you think BJ Penn could have performed better against Yair Rodriguez with a slightly different game plan?<\/p>\n

This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a>\u00a0on 6\/22\/2017.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Earlier this year, former UFC lightweight and welterweight champion and UFC Hall of Famer BJ Penn made his long-awaited return to the Octagon. He did so against red hot featherweight prospect Yair Rodriguez. Though Penn fought valiantly, this fight unfortunately didn’t go his way, as he was finished by a volley of second-round Rodriguez strikes. 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