Famous American MMA fighter B.J. Penn is famous for his successes in the Ultimate Fighting Championship and Jiu-Jitsu. He bets known as a former UFC Welterweight Champion and Lightweight Champion. As of 2017, B.J. Penn’s current net worth is amazing $22 million and he’s dating a gorgeous aspiring model you probably don’t know.

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Her name is Shealen Uaiwa and she looks incredibly hot. Although they are a couple for a long time and Shealen gave birth to their two kids, they are not officially married yet. It doesn’t prevent B.J. to occasionally refer to her as “his wife.”

B.J. Penn was born on December 13th, 1978, in Kailua, Hawaii. He started training Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu when se was 17 years old. Then he moved to San Jose in California and started training with Dave Camarillo who became his close friend. In 2000, he gained his black belt and only few weeks after that he won the World Jiu-Jitsu Championship. Several other Jiu-Jitsu achievements followed.

Then he switched to MMA, debuting in May 2001, defeating Joey Gilbert. During his career, he has represented teams Nova União, Jackson’s MMA, and B.J. Penn’s MMA. He was fighting until 2014, then he took an eighteen months hiatus. Penn announced he will return to active competition in January 2016. Unfortunately all of the planned fights were cancelled for different reasons since then.

He is one of the authors of an instructional book titled Mixed Martial Arts: The Book of Knowledge. In 2010, he published an autobiography titled Why I Fight: The Belt is Just an Accessory. You could also see Penn in the film named Never Surrender.