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Originally Posted by ninjastix
I don't see where you would hate Penn, it was dicky of him to hold the choke against Jens but there was an established understanding and bad blood brewing between both fighters. For that moment they wanted to hurt one another and when it was over it was over... I'm a huge Babalu fan but what he did was a bit different...
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I'm curious as to how do you see it differently?
Babalu's excuse was that he was "teaching respect" while Penn's excuse was that it "Built up from 5 years of shit talking" (not much difference there). Babalu might have held the choke slightly longer, however the fact is they both conciously held the choke longer than required in malice.
To me the only difference was that Babalu was exiled from the UFC. I'm not trying to be a dick or start a big debate, I'm just a huge Babalu fan and I guess I'm still kinda bitter that the punishment was not applied consistently between the two. I'm hoping you can give me a different point of view so I won't resent Penn so much for getting away with it while my boy didn't.