Former UFC lightweight and welterweight champion, BJ Penn is currently cutting weight to drop down two weight classes to face with Frankie Edgar at featherweight in the UFC and on TUF season 19 as coaches.
This is the leanest Penn has been in years. he will be at the same weight that he was when he became the first non-Brazilian to win the black-belt division of the World Jiu-Jitsu Championship held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. While Penn’s most well-known and prestigious achievement was placing first in the black belt division in the 2000 world championships, he had success at the Mundials in previous years. In 1999, at the age of 20, Penn finished 3rd, earning himself a bronze medal in the brown belt division, losing only to Fernando “Tererê” Augusto, and in 1998, earned a silver medal, placing 2nd in the blue belt division. Penn is thought to have earned the fastest black belt of all active Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practitioners.
