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BJ Penn, former lightweight champion and UFC welterweight return to the octagon against Canadian Rory MacDonald on 8 December at the UFC on Fox 5 to be held in Seattle, Washington. After he retired briefly after his defeat to Nick Diaz fight again to make clear that it is one of the best of all time.

"Hats off to Diaz, is an excellent fighter and you know what? Probably this was the last time you see me here. I want to be in the best possible level, I have a daughter and another to come, I can not get to my house with his face as I have now, "those were the words of BJ Penn the night of 29 October 2011 when I decided to hang up his gloves for the first time.

Evidently his inner fire reignited and believes he has what it takes to once again demonstrate that, inside the octagon, there's only one of him. Stare, scowl, lower left and right hand guard, when "The Prodigy" is in that position, you better come, I just want to be given the order to go out and fight and finish your opponent.

This coming December 8, we will have a great undercard headlined by a title fight between the lightweight champion Nate Diaz and Ben Henderson.

To start the main card have great action, it will open with heavyweight matchup: Brendan Schaub vs. Lavar Johnson. After debuting in the UFC with four straight wins, three of them by TKO / KO, Schaub fell twice against Minotauro Nogueira at UFC 134 and then to Ben Rothwell at UFC 145, so you need a win to stay alive. Meanwhile Johnson has just three fights in the UFC, the first two were victories, but in the third was submitted just last minute of the first round by Stefan Struve at UFC 146, Johnson has 35 years, and how strong is the division in full now, you also need to return to the path of victory if he wants to claim the title sometime.

Then continue the fight between Mike Swick and Matt Brown, UFC veterans duel, Brown with 13 fights in the UFC, comes into this fight with a run of three victories, meanwhile Swick came off a win against DaMarques Johnson and as Brown likes exchanging blows, so we'll probably see most of the fight standing with both looking for the KO, and so have most of their victories.

As Jon Jones figure is exaggerated with each of their victories, are scarce or almost zero viable opponents to challenge the scepter of the young champion. The Swede Alexander Gustafsson is one of those rivals who loom as potential title contenders, provided they manage to overcome their next opponent, Mauricio Rua ¨ ¨ Shogun, another of the running for the title fight.

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Comparisons between Swedish and 205lbs champion are inevitable. With similar physical characteristics, both have a considerable advantage in reach over most of his colleagues in the category of semicompletos.

Born in 1987, Jones and Gustafsson are the torchbearers of the new guard of sport. The big difference between these two talents lies in the level of competition they have faced each other.