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After taking a two month break from training it looks like lightweight champion BJ Penn is back and making good use of his time management skills, preparing 5 months early for his next fight. Speculated to either be against Georges St. Pierre for a super fight at the beginning of next year, or against the winner of Saturday nights fight between Kenny Florian and Roger Heurta for another lightweight title defense.

According to one of his trainers Penn is strength training for the first two months, to possibly muscle up and make the 170lb weight class properly - muscular, lean and fit. The 12-minute video shows a bit of his weight training regimen, some of his legendary ju-jitsu skills (arm keylock demonstration), and him shouting out instructions to a couple of his students rolling and grappling in his gym.

“Right now I’d rather fight George St. Pierre (over Hughes), because I know its a big fight and I feel that it’ll move the sport of mixed martial arts forward to have a super fight like that take place. I think Matt hughes will be a great fight after the George St. Pierre fight. Who cares if he’s a wounded animal? I have to kill him.”

In a recent seminar Strikeforce middleweight champ Cung Le talks about possibly entering the UFC for 3 fights, his training regimen, and his strategy to possibly beating Anderson Silva.

“My promoter is willing embracing going into the UFC like how Gracie went in and fight Matt Hughes, but is Dana willing to do that?…We’re at the 3 (fight) mark, we’ll see how it goes”

The latest news coming from the infamous Rampage Jackson hit and run case has taken a tragic turn. It turns out one of the women injured during the incident was pregnant, and has since miscarried the baby.

A Huntington Beach woman who was more than 16 weeks pregnant and who police said was injured in a hit-and-run crash with mixed martial artist Quinton “Rampage” Jackson on the 55 Freeway two weeks ago has had a miscarriage, her fiance said Friday.

They are still investigating the incident, no formal charges have been filed against Quintin Jackson.

Local newsite dailypilot has the breaking news here.

Tatame.com recently spoke with Vitor Belfort and it looks like he will face Matt Lindland for the Affliction middleweight belt on the promotions second event on October 11th. Belfort broke his hand over his KO victory against Terry Martin during Afflictions premier event.

“The doctor will analyze it, but I may stay four weeks out. I’ll come back in October 11th to fight Matt Lindland for the belt”

Thesun got a hold of former WWE superstar Brock Lesnar during a recent workout session and asked him his thoughts on his debut loss against Frank Mir and how he will be going into the fight against Heath Herring as main card event on UFC 87: Seek and Destroy on August 9th.

“My back is against the wall in this fight because I said from the beginning I wanted to fight credible opponents — and that’s what Dana White is handing me in Heath Herring.”

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