Penn calls out Diaz, hints at possible comeback
Posted January 5, 2012 7:01 pm.
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B.J. Penn may not be done fighting after all.
Penn lashed out at Nick Diaz Thursday afternoon on Twitter.
“[Diaz] look how much bigger you are in this pic,” Penn said on Twitter. “I thought you were gonna scrap from the beginning homie? What was that coward fence holding strategy to tire out the smaller man? Street fighter my ass!”
The former UFC welterweight and lightweight champion has been relatively quiet since he retired after losing to Diaz at UFC 137.
But Penn appears to still have the itch to fight after attacking his former opponent Jon Fitch as well on Thursday.
“I made you fight like glass jaw [Jon Fitch] poser!” Penn explained. “I’ll be ready for that weak [bulls***] next time we fight!”
Originally, many believed Penn’s account was hacked because the tweets were considered to be out of character. But, the tweets were confirmed by the news director of BJPenn.com, Pedro Carrasco.
“There is a reason why he posted it,” Carrasco wrote. “He is fired up because now that the holidays are over and a lot of his post-fight distractions are behind him he has nothing to do but think about things and he is not happy with the way he performed in his last several fights.
“That killer mentality and fire is back and it’s been brewing for a while now and today’s tweet is a result of it just boiling over!”
If Penn decided to return to the octagon, whether he would compete in the lightweight or heavyweight division is yet to be seen.
