It’s not every day you earn a win over a UFC Hall of Famer. It’s even rarer to finish them in less than one round. But that is exactly how Ryan Hall’s Saturday night went when he stepped into the Octagon against former two-division champion B.J. Penn at UFC 232 in Inglewood.
Hall, a multiple-time grappling champion, needed less than one round to submit Penn with his signature foot lock.
Against anyone else, this outcome was nothing but expected. But against Penn, the first American Gold medalist of the World Jiu-Jitsu Championship, not even Hall foresaw how quickly he would put away the proud Hawaiian.