UFC legend BJ Penn ‘needs to be stopped before he ends up dead’ says next opponent Nik Lentz

‘It’s like watching a live train wreck,’ says Nik Lentz, who is slated to fight the UFC Hall of Famer next

Penn knocked out in second Hawaii street fight in two months but Lentz says he will help him ‘get his life together’

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BJ Penn on the street after being knocked out (left). His next opponent Nik Lentz (right) says the UFC Hall of Famer needs help. Photos: YouTube/TMZ Sports

Published: 4:16pm, 30 Aug 2019Updated: 4:16pm, 30 Aug 2019

Seeing BJ Penn’s street fighting antics is like “watching a live train wreck”, the UFC Hall of Famer’s supposed next opponent Nik Lentz has said.

The 40-year-old former UFC lightweight and welterweight champion was knocked out by an antagoniser in a brawl outside the Big Island’s Lava Shack bar this week – before going back for more and beating the guy up.

It was Penn’s second street fight in the space of two months. He was also involved in a scrap with a strip club bouncer in Honolulu in June, though was not arrested or charged by police after either incident.

“Somebody needs to talk to BJ, and that’s the whole reason I took this fight in the first place,” Lentz told TMZ Sports. “The whole reason I took this fight in the first place, BJ, is I told you, you need to get your life together.”

The 35-year-old Lentz (30-10-2, 1 no contest) suggested Penn should get out of Hawaii and train at his gym in South Florida.