UFC's first show of the year on Sunday night, headlined by Hall of Famer B.J. Penn facing Yair Rodriguez ended up with a big question, and a big answer.
The answer, not the nickname of Penn's major career rival Frankie Edgar, is that Penn's career in the UFC should be over. Like every great champion who stayed too long, there comes a day when it's obvious, painfully in his case, that the athletic gifts that got you to the top are gone. In the case of Penn, that time was in the summer of 2014 when he was not at all competitive with Edgar.