Grease-Gate Continues: BJ Penn vs Ken Flo Next

So it looks like BJ Penn will face Ken Flo (Kenny Florian) next. But BJ doesn't appear to be too happy about Kenny deciding to train with GSP for the upcoming fight. Penn is saying that Kenny is a turncoat, that it was actually Kenny that tipped off BJ's camp about GSP's plan to grease himself, and more seriously that GSP takes roids...and now he's gonna train with him?

Penn and Kenny have gone back and forth with some words, BJ through his website and Kenny with his TV time on ESPN.



Some Quotes:

BJ PENN
"Oh, that's funny, he's going to tristar? He's the who who tipped us off that GSP was going to be greasing, he actually emailed me and tipped me off."

"Kenny if you're going to call me a liar on stuff I'm going to call you out. You're right it was not an email, you texted someone in the camp and told them that GSP is a big roider and big greaser to watch out for him. Kenny, I'm just calling a spade a spade."

KENNY FLORIAN
“I’ve never emailed a fighter about anything like that. I don’t even have B.J. Penn’s email, I’d love to see that email. I would say print that email and show it to everybody. Where’s this mystery email?”

“I haven’t spoken to B.J. besides 'hello' since January of 2007. I’ve never trained with St. Pierre in the past. I have no motive in saying that. Even if I knew, would I say that? I know of other fighters who have greased and I don’t say anything to anybody.”

“I was a little worried about a St. Pierre-Penn rematch coming first. From what I heard, it did really well with the pay-per-view and a lot of people turned up for it. The UFC certainly could have made a lot of money doing the third one, but I think the overwhelming response was...I didn’t realize how big of a fight it would be between me and B.J. until I saw the polls and people talking on the Interweb. People want to see me fight B.J. and it feels good to know that.”

When asked about his motivation behind going to tri-star (GSP's camp).

“He’s trained everyone to fight against me. He trained both Sam Stout and Roger Huerta to fight me...and obviously, he got a first-hand account of fighting B.J., twice. He’s gone seven rounds with B.J., so that’s some good information to get. Hopefully Georges will forget about the email I sent B.J. Penn and share it with me.”

So is GSP the A-Rod of MMA? Is BJ just looking for excuses? Is Kenny a turncoat?

Oh the MMA drama...I love it. Either way, Kenny is a legitimate #1 light-weight contender, and I think it'll be an exciting fight. I look for BJ to kick Kenny's ass though...