4. B.J. Penn

BJ Penn

B.J. Penn is ranked 4th in MMA Pound for Pound
Points: 149 (one first-place vote)
Affiliation: UFC
Weight class: Lightweight (UFC lightweight champion)
Hometown: Hilo, Hawaii
Record: 15-5-1 (won last two)
Last month’s ranking: 4
Most recent result: def. Diego Sanchez, R5 TKO, Dec. 12
Analysis: Thanks for playing, Diego. Next …

“The Prodigy” B.J. Penn (born December 13, 1978 in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii), is an American mixed martial artsist and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practitioner of Anglo-Irish and Korean decent who is currently the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Lightweight Champion.

In 2000, he became the first American-born winner of the World Jiu-Jitsu Championship in the black-belt category.^[3] Penn is a former UFC Welterweight Champion and was a coach on the The Ultimate Fighter 5 reality show. He became only the second fighter to win UFC titles in two different weight classes (the other being Randy Couture), after he won the lightweight title at UFC 80, having previously won the UFC’s welterweight title from Matt Hughes at UFC 46. He is currently ranked by Sherdog and MMAWeekly as the #1 Lightweight fighter in the world.