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Yair Rodriguez nearly withdrew from BJ Penn fight due to LCL sprain

Yair Rodriguez picked up the biggest and most impressive win of his rather young mixed martial arts (MMA) career against B.J. Penn, taking out "The Prodigy" via second-round technical knockout at UFC Fight Night 103 (video replay here) a few weeks ago.

And though he looked impressive in the featherweight scrap, peppering "Baby J" at will for five minutes with an array of strikes before putting the longtime veteran away in the opening seconds of round two, much of the talk was how bad Penn looked as opposed to how good Yair performed.

During a recent interview on The MMA Hour, "El Pantera" admitted that accepting the fight was a lose-lose situation for him from the jump.