BJ Penn vs Frankie Edgar 2 Fight UFC 118 Picks & Predictions: When former, longtime UFC lightweight champion, BJ Penn [-300 ML] steps into the Octagon on Saturday night, he will be taking on a huge sports betting odds underdog in reigning title-holder, Frankie Edgar [+240 ML]. The TD Garden in Beantown, Mass, will be filled to capacity to see which BJ Penn will show up tonight. According to “The Prodigy”, we can expect to see the best BJ Penn ever in this rematch for the UFC lightweight title!
"I’m just planning on going out there and being myself and hopefully it’s the best BJ Penn anyone has ever seen 
and everyone’s gonna end up looking at me and saying, man, this guy is the real deal,” said the Hawaiian. UFC 118 Picks & Predictions gets underway tonight at 10 PM ET (9 PM CT/7 PM PT) and it will be broadcasted live on PPV.
With his conditioning and motivation always in question, Penn has had to prove to the world that he fights because he loves the sport. Being one of the most naturally gifted athletes ever to step in the cage, Penn’s biggest downfall has been, at times, those same talents that separate him from the rest of the 155-pounders in the world. The Brazilian jiu-jitsu Mestre addressed this very same issue during a recent interview with UFC.com.
“Everyone’s favorite thing to say is that BJ Penn is some rich, lazy kid and they don’t know who I am,” he explained. “They don’t know me, they never met me. Frankie Edgar doesn’t know me, he never met me, and I feel like I’m reborn. I even want to thank Frankie Edgar for doing this to me because him and the rest of the world are gonna get to see who BJ Penn really is – finally. I’m not trying to be a braggart or blow my own horn, but I really feel that what anyone has ever seen me do in my career, we can top all those things in this fight and in the fights in the future. I’m really excited and I’m pumped. I want to fight.”
BJ Penn vs Frankie Edgar 2 Fight UFC 118 Picks & Predictions: I like BJ Penn in this one by submission. I think that Penn was way too content with standing up with Edgar and didn’t exploit his opponent’s weak ground game. As a former BJJ world champ, Penn has to take the fight where he has a clear advantage. If he does this, Penn will reclaim his title by submitting Edgar and ending his short reign as UFC lightweight champ.
“I don’t want to take away from Frankie Edgar and say that I didn’t get up for him,” he said. “I’m always up for a fight. I made my own mistakes in preparing for the fight, and those are mistakes I have to live with. I was worrying about my physical body at the time, and now I want my mind, body, and spirit to all be as one and I really feel that they are all one right now.
“And he didn’t surprise me,” Penn continues. “I knew he was tough, I knew he could box and had wrestling. Him and his team had a great gameplan and they came out and did their thing. Whether they believed in ‘The Secret’ and willed themselves to win that night, who knows, but Frankie Edgar walked away with the victory that night, and props to him. He’s got a UFC belt at home sitting on his dresser, or I don’t know what he does with it, but good for him, and he doesn’t know me, he never met me, but he’s gonna find out.”
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