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UFC legend BJ Penn gets knocked out in Hawaii bar fight … but finds the guy later and beats him up

  • ‘The Prodigy’ rains down punches on another man’s head at the Big Island’s Lava Shack
  • Another video then emerges showing it was actually a follow-up altercation to Penn getting dropped in the street earlier by the same man

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BJ Penn lies on the street after being knocked out (left). Later, the UFC legend finds the same man and rains punches down on his head. Photos: YouTube/TMZ Sports
Nicolas Atkin

UFC legend BJ Penn has been involved in another bar brawl in Hawaii, getting knocked out in the street before taking his revenge later in the night.

At first, fans on social media thought Penn – who has lost his last seven fights in the Octagon – might have picked up his first “win” in almost nine years, with TMZ Sports publishing footage of Penn dealing out a beat down at the Lava Shack bar on the Big Island.

The 40-year-old former UFC lightweight and welterweight champion was shown mounting a shirtless guy and raining down punches on him in the Tuesday night altercation.

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The fifth degree Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt had his legs hooked in and threw at last four huge, clean punches to the man’s head before several men in red “security” shirts moved in to break things up.

TMZ Sports reported police responded to the scene, but that UFC Hall of Famer Penn was not arrested.

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It turns out, however, that incident was actually a follow-up to an earlier altercation in the street outside the bar in Hawaii.

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