However, after his fight with GSP he might have complained about the vaseline thing, but he hasn’t mentioned too much recently. I was watching an interview with BJ Penn the other night and I noticed he’s changed a bit. There was no mention of the vaseline thing, but rather he came clean by admitting that he had been beaten up pretty bad. In fact, I thought he humbled himself when he said something like, (paraphrase) “… I was done after the second round. If you’d have told me what happened in the 3rd and 4th rounds, you’d have had to show me a tape … if it had gone into the 5th round it could have been career-ending.” That’s a lot for someone like him to admit.

Penn had his butt handed to him but I really think he came out of this with a lot more humility and that was something he was missing before fighting GSP.

What will he do against Kenny Floria? Don’t know, but I think he’ll be a lot better prepared than he was against GSP; both physically and mentally. Still, I’d like to see Floria take the belt. He trains with a group of fighters that includes GSP and it would give that group another belt.