"Canadian Psycho" Rory MacDonald obliterates Penn to earn ‘new breed’ status

It didn’t take long for BJ Penn fans to realize on Saturday night that their once fearsome champion was going to lose — again — to a bigger, faster, and more dynamic opponent in Rory MacDonald.

At UFC on FOX 5 on Saturday night from the Key Arena in Seattle, BJ Penn was reduced to a shadow of his former self as the up-and-coming “Ares” proceeded to decimate the Hawaiian for fifteen minutes en route to a unanimous decision victory.

For Penn, this now makes him 1-4-1 in his last five fights, and questions are swirling as to just how much time “The Prodigy” has left in the sport of MMA. A once proud and dynamic legend, Penn now sits at the crossroads of any great legend’s looming inevitability; there’s that penetrating question, “how much longer can I do this?”

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