B.J. Penn has recently revealed that he got seriously injured last year while he was in a wave pool, of all places. The former two-division UFC champion detailed the unusual incident, which he likened to the movie series Final Destination.
Penn says he nearly died and suffered multiple fractures, after likely being the first person to ever get sucked into the engine room of a wave pool.
“Last year when I got sucked into a wave pool engine room and thought I was going to die. I kept thinking ‘don’t die for your kids’,” Penn wrote on Instagram.