Hawaii Tribune-Herald
When Hilo’s own BJ Penn was inducted into the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s Hall of Fame on July 11, he said: “It feels like winning the belt, again.”
As the former two-time, two-division (welterweight, lightweight) UFC world champion knows, belts can be lost with a defeat.
However, Penn has a permanent place among the best of the best in the mixed martial arts world. Any fighter could win a belt. Not everyone will land in the Hall of Fame.
UFC fighters come and go, but the greatest ones are remembered forever in the Hall of Fame, a place “The Prodigy” seemed destined to enter.