MMA legend & BJJ world champion BJ Penn is having a hard time leaving his fighting career. The 42 year old former 2 division UFC champion & BJJ world champion hasn’t won an MMA fight in 10 years, but he still doesn’t know about if he’s going to call it quits.
He was fired from the UFC late last year after he was knocked out in a street fight in Hawaii. Penn has had a lot of recent run ins with the law and numerous street fights.
Now BJ Penn will run for governor of Hawaii in 2022 and has faced his critics by apologizing for his past misbehaviors:
“I have been at the top of the world before but I am not a perfect person. As I look back on the mistakes I have made in my life (like this video) l apologize for anyone I may have hurt or embarrassed.
I have made a lot of mistakes and I aim to be a better man tomorrow than I was yesterday. When I see this I feel embarrassed for my family, for my friends, and for my people who have stood behind me my whole life.
As I move forward on my new journey to fight for the people of Hawaii I promise you I will carry myself with respect and honor for the people of Hawaii. I will never back down from a fight when the government or rich elite come to take things from my people and I will never ever sell my people out like the other Hawaii politicians have done over and over for years.
I love you Hawaii and I will fight for you until the END !”
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Mixed martial arts success and success in politics? Why not – because that’s what BJ Penn is seemingly aiming for! And why, you ask? Well, it’s because he has just announced that he will run for governor of Hawaii in 2022!
He did so by posting a video with the following message on his social media:
Hawaii is losing all of it’s freedoms. Our economy is being destroyed and all of our rights are being taken away. We need somebody to fight for us.
The video was further explained by the post below it:
I’ve made a lot of mistakes in my life but I would never run from a fight or sell out my people. As soon as I step into Hawaii’s Governor office I will remove All new federal and state mandates that have been hurting our economy, residents, and ‘ohana.
We will get the best doctors, medicines, therapies, and health care the world has to offer to fight this pandemic and always keep Hawaii among the safest and healthiest states in the union. We will get rid of all vaccine passports. Hawaii will be a vaccinated with Aloha and Unvaccinated with Aloha policy for everyone. Same with the masks 😷.We will follow the constitution to the tee 👌. I am not here to fit in with the other politicians, I am here to get our freedoms back!
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Penn is a UFC Hall of Famer; the promotion’s champion on two separate occasions and in two different weight classes. It was precisely his superb Jiu-Jitsu skill that he used to climb up the ranks of his early MMA rise, using it to ultimately submit Joe Stevenson for the lightweight and Matt Hughes for the welterweight belt.
Unfortunately, his MMA career was brought to a halt in 2019. That’s when he was released from the UFC after being involved in a number of legal disputes and losing the vast majority of his last 10 fights.
