A new ESPN video interview with B.J. Penn makes a strong case that the Hawaiian doesn’t consider his loss to Georges St. Pierre back in January to be of any particular consequence.

“If he’s so big and I can’t handle all this power, and all of these things, then why did the fight go for so long?” he asks. “Why wasn’t I taken out immediately if I didn’t belong in the ring with him?”

Not sure the logic there is very sound. St-Pierre is simply too big and too good for Penn, and a survival rate of three rounds is off from both Jon Fitch and Thiago Alves, who lasted five.

Penn’s August 8 lightweight opponent, Kenny Florian, has some hubris of his own. “I may finish [Penn] in the first round,” he says.

Stranger things and all that, but Penn is not the type of reckless fighter who lends himself to an expedient conquering. I anticipate a five-round fight, with IVs all around at the after-part.