On January 31, 2009 live from the MGM Grand Garden Area in Los Vegas Nevada the UFC will feature historic match. The lightweight champion BJ Penn will challenge the welterweight champion George St Pierre for his title.

Georges St-Pierre Vs. BJ Penn II

St. Pierre is 18-2 in MMA with a loss via submission at UFC 50 to Matt Hughes and a TKO due to strikes at the hands of Matt Serra in UFC 69. In both cases St. Pierre won the rematches in rather dominating fashion.

St. Pierre beat B.J. Penn in a close decision at UFC 58 and many people feel the fight could have gone Penn’s way as well. Since then, aside from the Serra loss, St. Pierre is riding the peak of his career and seems
to be at his absolute best. His last fight against Jon Fitch, the top Welterweight contender showed that he is in a class of his own.

B.J. Penn on the other hand sits atop the Lightweight division with the only real challenger remaining being Kenny Florian who is on a six fight win streak. B.J. Penn is 13-4-1 lifetime in MMA and in his four losses
three have gone to a decision.

Penn is one of the top BJJ fighters in the UFC, but he's very balanced, with five knockouts, five submissions and three decision wins on his resume. This Fight has Excitement All Over It.....

Georges St. Pierre is starting out as a -245 favorite, while B.J. Penn is a +175 underdog.

For those not entirely familiar with how betting lines work, this means that a successful $100 wager on B.J. Penn would make you $175 in profit. On the other hand, you would need to wager $245 on Georges St. Pierre to give yourself a chance at winning $100 of profit back. So obviously, GSP is quite a big favorite in this fight.

Also, feature on the card is undefeated Lyoto Machida , fan favorite Stephan Bonnar, and Karo Parisysn. To finish to Main Card off, Lightweights Nate Diaz and Clay Guida are set to square off.

Diaz and Guida were originally booked to fight this year but a foot injury suffered by Guida resulted in the matchup being pushed back to the UFC 94 main card, which is headlined by Georges St-Pierre vs. BJ Penn.

Diaz, a cast member on The Ultimate Fighter 5, captured the reality series’ lightweight tournament crown in mid-2007 with a victory over Manny Gamburyan. After winning his next three-straight fights
over Junior Assuncao, Alvin Robinson, and Kurt Pellegrino all via submission, Diaz bested Josh Neer at UFC Fight Night 15 in September via split decision.

Among the most popular lightweights for his all out fighting style, Guida, a former Strikeforce lightweight champion, went just 2-3 in his first five fights inside the octagon. However, most-recently “The Carpenter” has rebounded to win back-to-back fights over Mac Danzig and Samy Schiavo.

Main Card:

Georges St. Pierre (No. 1 WW, No. 2 PFP) vs. B.J. Penn (No. 1 LW, No. 4 PFP)
Lyoto Machida (No. 4 LHW) vs. Thiago Silva (No. 8 LHW)
Stephan Bonnar vs. Jon Jones
Karo Parisyan (No. 9 WW) vs. Dong Hyun Kim
Nathan Diaz vs. Clay Guida

Prelims:

Jon Fitch (No. 3 WW) vs. Akihiro Gono
Manny Gamburyan vs. Thiago Tavares
John Howard vs. Chris Wilson
Jake O'Brien vs. Christian Wellisch
Matt Arroyo vs. Dan Cramer

UFC 94 Results

UFC 94 gave fight fans a number of close decisions, including a controversial win for Karo Parisyan over Dong Hyun Kim. However, the top three fights on the card all delivered dominant performances by the victors with 21-year-old Jon Jones throwing Stephan Bonnar around the cage, Lyoto Machida finishing Thiago Silva, and Georges St. Pierre taking down and battering BJ Penn for four championship rounds.

Here are the complete results:

• Georges St-Pierre wins by TKO stoppage (Referee) over BJ Penn at 5:00 in the 4th round. St-Pierre retains the UFC welterweight title.

• Lyoto Machida wins by knock out over Thiago Silva at 4:49 in the 1st round.

• Jon Jones wins by unanimous decision over Stephan Bonnar.

• Karo Parisyan wins by split decision over Dong Hyun Kim.

• Clay Guida wins by split decision over Nate Diaz.

• Jon Fitch wins by unanimous decision over Akihiro Gono.

• Thiago Tavares wins by unanimous decision over Manny Gamburyan.

• John Howard wins by split decision over Chris Wilson.

• Jake O'Brien wins by split decision over Christian Wellisch.

• Dan Cramer wins by split decision over Matt Arroyo.