Back in June, UFC president Dana White said that B.J. Penn would not get another fight in the company. Less than two months later, White announced he decided to give him a fight with Nik Lentz after the former champion “terrorized me for freaking a week”.
Weeks after the match-up was booked for a yet-to-be-determined card, videos surfaced online showing multiple physical altercations between Penn and a man in Hawaii. One video shows Penn getting knocked down outside of a bar, and a second video shows the fighter throwing punches at the same man.