Was B.J. Penn Sick At UFC 112?

One judge scored every round for Edgar but what I saw in the fight when I was watching it, and I haven’t watched it again on tape, but watching it as it happened, I felt that BJ won the first three rounds. The fourth round was even and I think he lost the last round. So I feel BJ won the fight. He was also battling a sinus infection and was on antibiotics, so he was not one hundred percent. I’m not making any excuses, that is just what happened. I didn’t see him lose that fight but I did see him lose the last round. As for effectiveness of punches, I thought BJ had it. Frankie got two takedowns but BJ got up real fast and nothing happened on the ground there, so I don’t know if they could score the fight based on those two takedowns.

I’m not taking anything from Frankie Edgar. He fought a real good fight and had a good strategy. His stand-up was good, he was moving a lot in and out real fast. Frankie fought a very good and strategic fight. I don’t want this to be about criticizing Frankie because I like him and he fought well.

- BJ Penn's Coach, Rudy Valentino, says Penn had a sinus infection heading into his fight with Frankie Edgar.

Many people are going to blow these comments off based on Penn's tendency to make excuses for the few poor performances in his career.  However, if Penn did have a sinus infection that would be extremely damaging to his energy levels and could explain why he looked so sluggish during the bout.

I still would take Penn to absolutely destroy Edgar in a rematch.