It isn’t often that sports fans can sit down on the weekend and watch some of the biggest moments in sports history unfold in three different sports.
To kick the weekend off fight fans will be treated to the highly anticipated welterweight title fight between the current UFC welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre and the current light weight UFC champion B.J. Penn.
This will be the second fight between St. Pierre and Penn. Georges St. Pierre won the first bout via a controversial split decision.
The first round was dominated by B.J. Penn who picked Georges apart with his boxing. In the second and third rounds, George St.Pierre won them by utilizing his explosive take downs and superior wrestling abilities to score points and control B.J. on the ground.
Both fighters have improved leaps and bounds since their last meeting, particularly Georges St. Pierre.
Georges hasn’t reached the peak of his career just yet, but he is definitely riding the wave. He has compiled a 17-2 professional record and he has taken the welterweight belt from two former greats in Matt Hughes and Matt Serra.
St. Pierre has also defended the title in dominating fashion against one of the division’s top contenders in Jon Fitch.
Georges St.Pierre is a hard worker he worked as a bouncer and garbage man while studying in Kinesiology. If anyone has seen his training sessions you will see that he is a man that has a lot of focus and dedication and he brings that to the table in every facet of his life.
Despite St. Pierre’s success, he remains one of the most humble athletes on the planet, which is one of the reason’s he was voted as Canadian athlete of the year.
Georges has respect for each and every opponent he faces, never will you see him insult another opponent in pre- or post fight interviews.
He also has respect for what professional fighting really is. Georges wants to be the best at what he does, but he isn’t the kind of the guy that looks for fights outside of the octagon. He has even stated that as a bouncer he would use words more then anything else to rectify situations.
B.J. Penn, the prodigy, one of the most decorated American martial artists to fight in the UFC. Penn was the first American to win an international Brazilian Jiu Jitsui tournament and he has compiled a 13-4 mixed martial arts record.
B.J. Penn is one of the most fearless competitors in mixed martial arts today, which is illustrated by the fact that he seems to have no problems fighting up in weight classes.
He will be fighting for the fifth time at welter weight, he has also twice fought at middle weight and one of his biggest fights was in an open weight class against a 215 pound Lyoto Machida, B.J. weighed in at 187 pounds.
Although B.J. Penn hasn’t won everything outside of his natural weight class which is lightweight, he has always held his own.
Penn beat former UFC welter weight champion Matt Hughes and he beat both Gracie brothers at 185 lbs.
Penn did lose to Hughes as well as George St. Pierre at welter weight, but the matches were competitive. Against Machida who had a 30 pound weight advantage, Penn lost, that being said B.J. managed to hang around for all 3 rounds.
In the Lightweight division B.J. has been virtually untouchable where he is 9-1-1 and currently holds the lightweight title.
In the past people often questioned B.J. Penn’s dedication and focus, pretty much the opposite of Georges St. Pierre. People often felt that he showed up to fights out of shape and didn’t take his training nor his opponents very seriously.
Since Penn has been back in the UFC, he is showing a new found dedication to the sport and this new found dedication and focus is one of the reasons many fans feel B.J. might be able to upset Georges this Saturday.
Unlike St. Pierre, Penn often likes to hype his fights by talking trash to his opponents. Penn did not fail, he has called Georges a quitter and said that the UFC 94 bout is to the death.
Why is this event so big? It could be the first time a UFC fighter holds two division titles at the same time, B.J. Penn has the chance to hold both the lightweight and welterweight titles if he were to beat St. Pierre.
St. Pierre on the other hand has everything to lose this Saturday. Penn will still have a title belt win or lose, St. Pierre has to win to keep his belt.
If St. Pierre wins, he will have two wins over Penn and another title defence. That being said, there is much more to lose for Georges. If Penn wins, Georges loses the welterweight belt to a guy who fights his best in a weight class lower.
The winner of this fight will defend the title against top welterweight contender Thiago Alves.
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