UFC comes to Philadelphia with UFC 101: Declaration
You read it, the City of Brotherly Love, for the first time ever, will feel just how intense the ”brotherly love” inside the Octagon really is.
Yep, UFC 101: Declaration will be bringing Philadelphia its first taste of the UFC on August 8 at the Wachovia Center. And since this will be the first time Dana White will be bringing his sport on this part of the Eastern time zone, they’re bringing the big guns with them.
Highlighting the event will be the BJ Penn – Kenny Florian UFC Lightweight Championship as Penn defends his title for the second time against Florian, the number one contender.
Without a shadow of a doubt, UFC Lightweight Champion BJ Penn is the undisputed king of the division. At 35-5-1, Penn is practically on everyone’s list of best fighters in the world, pound for pound.
And I’m assuming Manny ”The Pacman” Pacquiao is NOT INCLUDED in any of these lists. (And it should be…)
Penn is undefeated at 155 pounds since 2002, beating the likes of Jens Pulver, Joe Stevenson and Sean Sherk in successive contests. Thanks to a humbling loss to Georges St-Pierre when Penn challenged GSP for his Welterweight title, Penn was shunned back to the Lightweight division much to the dismay of other fighters in the weight class.
And since BJ Penn has been simply unstoppable as a lightweight, getting his ass handed to him by GSP could be the best thing that has ever happened to him.
On the other hand, while BJ Penn couldn’t replicate the success he had as a lightweight when he went up to the welterweight division, Kenny ”KenFlo” Florian was solid in every weight class that he competed in. He has fought in the middleweight, welterweight and lightweight divisions, beating some of the best fighters ever seen inside the Octagon.
The only thing missing for Kenny Florian is a world championship belt and on August 8, at the Wachovia Center in Philadelphia, he may finally earn his first world title.
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