B.J. Penn has being involved in two separate incidents over the last few months. The MMA fighter finally told his side of the story, after the last shocking brawl in Hawaii:
“Just to begin with, there was another video posted on TMZ of me holding somebody on the ground,” Penn told TSN. “From that—because I’m in the middle of a custody case right now—I got a lot of slack already from the custody evaluator, from their lawyer, of course, from my lawyer. So the last thing that I’m looking to do—yeah, because everybody was saying that I held down a bouncer, but it wasn’t a bouncer or anything like that. It’s just something happened and I had to protect myself and hold a guy on the ground. So the last thing I want to do is get into any type of trouble.”
BJ Penn got knocked out in a street fight LMAOO pic.twitter.com/FQw8yC0TK5
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“My custody case, me seeing my kids depends on all this stuff. It’s just really strange how things just happen and you never see this kind of stuff. But here I am in a custody case and this happened twice.”
The second clip shows Penn and the man inside an establishment, this time with Penn punching away from back mount.
“I’m at a concert going to meet a friend of mine that I knew since we were real young kids and I’m over there, and then an acquaintance of mine he gets mad about something,” Penn said. “You know, something was said or what or if it was an old past thing and then he wants to fight about it. I’m like: “Naw naw”, we’ve got a lot of witnesses, everybody can corroborate my story. I’m like, “No, no, no, I don’t want to fight. We’re friends, everything’s cool”. He even walks outside and I’m thinking: “Aw, this is silly”. I’m going to go get him, calm him down, come back inside, we’ll come enjoy the concert, we’ve got some other friends there. I walk outside to go give the guy a hug and then he hits me twice. I’m like – “No, no, calm down”. I try to give him another hug and he hits me a couple more times and then he hits me again—I wish they didn’t cut the video in half so whoever put that video up cut it in half, I wish they had the whole thing that showed me trying to hug the guy—finally, my adrenaline kicked up because he was hitting me so much, I’m like – “Go ahead, hit me again”.”
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“But really, I thought the guy would eventually just be like – You know what? Forget it, B.J., give me a hug or whatever, walk away. He hit me and he hit me good. Knocked me down. And then when I got back up he tried it again and then I just had to defend myself. So that’s what you see in the second video.”
