Anthony Pettis faces tough task against Jose Aldo

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Ultimate Fighting Championship or the UFC Featherweight champion Jose Aldo will go head to head against Anthony Pettis at UFC 163 in August in his native in Brazil in what is being seen as one of the most anticipated matches in the division with two of the purest strikers in the sport going head to head inside the Octagon. And the former Lightweight fighter is confident that his striking ability is something that holds him in very good stead against Junior when they meet.

Aldo himself is a powerful puncher and is known for the laser like abilities he boasts of and has carved out a niche for himself in the sport since his days at World Extreme Cage Fighting or the WEC and then in the UFC and it is this reputation that made Pettis ditch his chance of gold in the 155 lbs division to drop down to 145 lbs and take Junior on.

According to Showtime, he has been fighting wrestlers throughout his life and one of the main reasons he opted to fight against Jose Aldo is because of his striking abilities. He further mentioned that another reason for him to drop down to 145 lbs is because he knows Aldo will test him and he wants to fight the best there is. He admitted that his style of fighting is something that will baffle Aldo because the stand-up technique is something he hasn’t seen much of and will find it difficult to get a training partner with similar attributes.

However, Pettis faces a huge task in front of him with Jose Aldo not having suffered a defeat in eight years in both the WEC and UFC and having beaten the likes of Cub Swanson, Urijah Faber, Chad Mendes, Frankie Edgar as well as Kenny Florian.

BJ Penn

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BJ Penn is a semi retired, professional Mixed Martial Artist from the United States of America, who is currently under a professional contract with the Ultimate Fighting Championship or the UFC, the premier Mixed Martial Arts promotion in the world, where he is a former two division champion. Penn has had a decorated career in Brazilian jiu-jitsu and he created history when he became the first ever American and the first non-Brazilian to win the black belt category of the World jiu-jitsu Championship.

Following his stint in jiu-jitsu, Penn settled for a career in Mixed Martial Arts, entering into a contract with the UFC as a professional and in the UFC, he has competed in several different weight classes as well, including Light Heavyweight, Welterweight as well as Lightweight. He became the winner of the UFC Lightweight Championship and during his reign as the champion, BJ Penn went over eight years without suffering a single defeat in the promotion and he smashed several records during his reign.

Penn earned the nickname of The Prodigy and garnered massive fan following because of the willingness he showed to fight the best fighters around, regardless of the weight division they were in and moving up several weight classes in the process to make the fights happen. In the early parts of 2004, Penn became the first man in the history of the sport to be simultaneously ranked at the top of two separate weight categories – Lightweight and Welterweight.

Dana White, the president of the UFC has repeatedly hailed BJ Penn as the single most influential person in the history of the sport and the UFC who was responsible for making the lighter weight divisions popular among the fans and making them a huge draw for pay per view events as well, breaking age old clichés.

About BJ Penn

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BJ Penn is a semi-retired Mixed Martial Artist from the United States of America who is currently signed on as a performer by the Ultimate Fighting Championship or the UFC, the premier Mixed Martial Arts promotion in the world. He is one of the greatest exponents of Brazilian jiu-jitsu from the United States of America and became the first non-Brazilian and American to win the black belt category of the World jiu-jitsu Championship, having trained for just three years in the martial arts form.

Penn has been one of the competitors who has been ever present since the rise in popularity of the UFC and has fought in four divisions of the promotion – Welterweight, Lightweight, Light Heavyweight and Middleweight. BJ Penn is also a former UFC Welterweight champion and the UFC Lightweight champion and is, till date, the only person to have held the championship belts in two different weight categories of the UFC. During his reign as the UFC Lightweight champion, Penn was undefeated in the division for around 8 years, a distinction that saw him break plenty of divisional records in Lightweight.

Penn is also known for his willingness to take on top fighters, regardless of the division they are in and also his capability to go up or down a weight class to make the fight happen. He is also the only fighter in the history of Mixed Martial Arts to be ranked as the number one fighter simultaneously in two weight divisions when he achieved the feat in early 2004.

Dana White, the president of the UFC has hailed BJ Penn as the one who popularized the lighter weight divisions of the UFC and Mixed Martial Arts as a whole. He is also considered as the one to break the cliché that lighter weight fighters cannot be main event fighters.