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After witnessing a one-sided beat down at the hands of Rory MacDonald, perhaps it’s time for B.J. Penn to call it a career.

UFC President Dana White recently revealed that former UFC champion B.J. Penn will indeed be returning to the UFC Octagon sometime soon, ending the retirement he announced after losing handily to Nick Diaz last October. While many had speculated Penn would not remain retired long, news had broke that he had declined a fight against Gilbert Milendez for the Strikeforce Lightweight championship. No Penn is ready to return to battle apparently. He commented on the subject at the press conference for UFC on

BJ Penn, a legend in the world of mixed martial arts hails from Hawaii, and yet he has never competed in his home state while under contract with the UFC.  In fact, the UFC has never held an event in Hawaii; something that UFC president Dana White had hoped would change in the not too distant future.
It seems as if the UFC was looking into heading to Hawaii and making a huge go of things, “I was kind of hoping to go to Hawaii again and do a B.J. (Penn) fight at the Aloha Bowl, but B.J. wants to