Instead Frankie Edgar showed that he is for real and that he has the answer for "the Prodigy".
B.J. Penn chased Frankie Edgar around the cage throwing and setting down punches before Edgar took him down. B.J. was immediately dominant in guard and was escaping to Edgar's back but couldn't get his own take down. Back on the feet, Penn landed with a left as Edgar danced laterally and burnt punchers. Edgar took him down with a big slam, but Penn quickly got back to his feet. Then Edgar got another take down. By the end of the round, Penn was slower and Edgar's dizzying movement kicked in.
In the second, Penn put down multiple pokings before Edgar shot in and took him down. Penn quickly fought back to his feet. Then they traded with Edgar's fleet footwork controlling the fight.
The third was more of the same. Edgar moved in and out and brought down on the title holder. Penn straggled on a take down but otherwise couldn't do much to Edgar. Frankie landed a wide sort of strikes, attractively mixing up his wide ranging punches with quetches and elbows. He landed to the ramifications, body and head.
Going into the 4th everyone knew that Penn had to cease to deliver the goods the fight.
B.J. Penn then took Edgar down and went for the kill. Edgar fought down himself and escaped to his feet. Edgar dropped Penn with a leg trip and threw elbows on the primer coat. Penn worked rubber guard from his back. Then Edgar broke loose and worked the ground and hammering on Penn with hard punches from the round top. Penn got back up and over again Edgar outpointed him standing.
By the start of the fifth round, Penn had to be desperate. He immediately injected in for the take down. They scrambled through a stupefying series of billets before Edgar brought down in Penn's guard. From there Frankie set down elbows and punches and Penn wasn't able to work much off his back.
The B.J. Penn era of the lightweight division ended with a whine, not a smasher.
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