Does BJ Penn Deserve Rematch With Georges St. Pierre?

BJ Penn has been granted his rematch with the last man to beat him by Santa himself Dana White. But does he really deserve it?

Following his close loss to Georges (although I did not think it was as close as most people think—getting taken down multiple times does not spell close to me), BJ was stopped for the first time by Matt Hughes at UFC 63. In rather alarming contrast GSP returned from his injury and obliterated Hughes 2 months later.

Bj's two consecutive losses in which his cardio was exposed forced him to supposedly "re-dedicate" himself. He proceeded to drop down to lightweight and become coach on season five of the Ultimate Fighter along side the other man he was obsessed with due to defeat Jens Pulver.

In their rematch BJ steamrolled Jens, finishing him with a slick rear-naked choke in the second round. Was this new Bj a force to be reckoned with? Well it seemed so when he overwhelmed Joe Stevenson at UFC 80 to win the vacant Lightweight title, again by a rear-naked choke.

This win of course made the obnogtious  BJ think he could then say he was going to kill Sean Sherk. He got his chance to 'kill' Sherk at UFC 84. He did what he promised to a certain degree, by stopping Sherk at the end of the third round. Although most people think BJ picked Sherk apart with relative ease, I did not see this. I thought Sherk was giving BJ as good as he got.

Despite these wins we have got to take things into consideration. Jens Pulver is not even a lightweight and his drop down to featherweight has proved unsuccessful. Stevenson is simply a decent gatekeeper, just look what Kenny Florian done to him a couple of weeks ago. Finally Sherk had not fought in nearly a year and since the loss looked fantastic against Tyson Griffin.

So does he deserve a shot at GSP? I think not.

Look at a guy like Thiago Alves. He is on a 7 fight win streak with the majority of these victories coming by KO/TKO. Match him against BJ and think, Alves way superior striker, alarmingly bigger and probably better conditioning. Also add the takedown defense he showed against a legit welterweight in size and one of the best wrestlers in all of mma and you have to think could BJ get such a strong guy to the mat?

Due to BJ's ego, Alves now has to wait god knows how long to get his shot and in that time could lose a match and his No. 1 contendership.

Personally, I feel BJ is underestimating how much Georges has improved in every aspect, and cannot wait for Georges to send the ignorant, egotistical and inconsistent Penn back down to lightweight, were he will probably lose his title due to lack of motivation.