BJ Penn Aiming For UFC 197 Return

BJ Penn is planning to make his return to the Octagon at UFC 197 in April. Penn took to his website to announce the news, noting tht he was originally planning on fighting at UFC 196 on March 5th anymore.

“I thought the fight guaranteed was going to happen because the UFC, they set up medicals for me to do,” Penn said. “I did the medicals and they were sending a film crew down and we were getting all that together and I assumed we were setting up the fight, and that might have been what was happening. But, at the end of the day, [UFC matchmaker] Sean Shelby called me and said it would be more convenient for all of us to move the fight to April 23.”

Penn noted that he will remain in Albuquerque, New Mexico to train at JacksonWink MMA right up until April the date. UFC 197 takes place on April 23rd in Las Vegas.