Bleacher Report's Bill Jackson takes a look at B.J. Penn as fight night nears for his bout against Jon Fitch at UFC 127.
There are only two fighters to have held UFC titles in two separate weight classes.
The first to reach the milestone was Randy Couture when he bested Tito Ortiz at UFC 44 for the light heavyweight title after coming down from heavyweight, where he had been a two-time champion.
The only man to match the accomplishment of Couture is one half of the main event this Saturday at UFC 127 in Sydney, Australia: B.J. Penn.
Penn's first championship came in his welterweight debut when he upset Matt Hughes at UFC 46?just four months after Couture's victory over Ortiz.
Penn never defended the title and left the UFC over contract disputes. But, returned two years later and eventually moved back to lightweight to win his second title.
After two years of convincing the rest of the world that he was bar none the best lightweight of all time, Penn dropped consecutive upset losses to current champ Frankie Edgar last year and his future immediately came into question.
Was this simply a bad stylistic matchup for Penn? Or was this another legend of the yester-era reaching the end of his prime?
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