Penn files complaint against St. Pierre

B.J. Penn has failed a formal complaint with the Nevada State Athletic Commision, claiming Georges St. Pierre used illegal means in their fight at UFC 94 in January.

Penn wants St. Pierre’s victory in the fight to be declared a ‘no contest’. Penn also wants St. Pierre, trainer Greg Jackson and cornerman Phil Nurse to be handed a $250,000 fine and requests that their licenses should be suspended by the NSAC.

The complaint states, according to MMAjunkie.com, that St. Pierre’s body was "highly and unnaturally slippery well beyond that contemplated and experienced by veteran mixed martial arts fighters and, based thereon, Penn alleges that the application of Vaseline/petroleum jelly or some substance to Pierre’s (sic) body by his agents, employees or co-conspirators during the bout was not innocent and/or inadvertent act or mistake, but, in fact, a calculated strategy and an intentional act by Pierre to have a substance applied to his body during the bout that would result in his body becoming highly and unnaturally slippery."

"This was one hundred percent intentional and orchestrated," said attorney Raffi Nahabedian, who filed the complaint on behalf of Penn Monday. "B.J. truly believes that if he (St. Pierre) wasn’t as slippery, it would have been a vastly different bout."

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