UFC legend B.J. Penn has fallen on tough times. The former UFC lightweight and welterweight champion has been arrested several times over the last few months and ordered to vacate the home he shared with is mother.
Penn believes his family has been murdered and replaced by imposters out to steal his family assets. He’s due in court next month after violating a restraining order and plans to represent himself.
Penn recently took to social media to plead for help from the UFC and
“POWER ISN’T HOW MUCH YOU CAN HURT SOMEONE POWER IS HOW MUCH YOU CAN HELP SOMEONE! I didn’t start this fight. This is an army of theives and they are here to steal everything I worked for,” Penn wrote on Instagram.
“If I ever made anyone money like the @UFC @UFCGYMS @rvca @pmtenore or did anything kind or helpful for anyone that has the power to make a difference I would appreciate your help with this robbery that is taking place in Hilo, Hawaii! They are trying to make attempts on my life and they are trying to provoke me to attack some of them but If I take the bate and I touch one of them, I will go to jail and lose everything,” Penn continued.
“I didn’t know who else to ask so I figure I ask any of the business partners that we had good business relationships with to give me help against this army of thieves.”
Penn posted the comments to a video post. In the video, he specifically asked UFC CEO Dana White and former UFC owner Lorenzo Fertitta for assistance.
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“This message is for Dana White and Lorenzo Fertitta. I need your guy’s help,” Penn said in the video post. “I’ve been pushed out. This is the house I grew up in. Lived here my whole life. Fought in the UFC. Became a world champion and all of that stuff,” Penn said.
“If I go anywhere near the house up there, I try to get my dogs, and get whatever I can, I’ll be arrested,” Penn said. “Just think about it. There’s no one here to help me.”
“I’m the world champion. I’m the one who went out there and took the punches, took blows, and here we are getting pushed out of everything about to have everything stolen from us. All the money I made from the UFC, UFC Gyms, all my sponsors, all invested back into my family and to everything. Every dollar I made invested back in. I’m about to get it all taken from me, and I need your guys’ help.”
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Penn’s mother, Lorraine Shin, believes her son is suffering from a condition called Capgras delusional syndrome.
“I believe my son [B.J. Penn] is suffering from Capgras delusional syndrome (a psychiatric disorder in which a person holds a delusion that a friend, spouse, parent, other close family member has been replaced by an identical imposter). He believes I’m an imposter who has killed his family to gain control of the family assets,” Shin wrote in a statement to police.
