Filed under: Featured , Featured Videos , News , Radio Highlight , UFC , Videos For Ricardo Lamas , there’s a time to fanboy out over some of his MMA peers, including B.J. Penn. But that time went right out the window the second Lamas put Penn – and pen – to paper. When Lamas (16-5 MMA, 7-3 UFC) signed on to fight Penn (16-10-2 MMA, 12-9-2 UFC), a UFC Hall of Famer, in the main event of next month’s UFC Fight Night 97 card in the Philippines, he made sure any admiration for the former two-division champ got put in the rearview mirror for a while. And far as being friendly with him before the fight, that’s a dangerous road Lamas doesn’t want to go down. “There was a cocktail hour we both attended (in the Philippines), but we were kind of on opposite sides of the room,” Lamas on Wednesday told MMAjunkie Radio.
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Ricardo Lamas putting fandom to the side for UFC Fight Night 97 headliner vs. B.J. Penn – MMA Junkie