“Boxing is so much easier than mixed martial arts,” Ben Askren is very optimistic about winning against Jake Paul

“Boxing is so much easier than mixed martial arts,” Ben Askren is very optimistic about winning against Jake Paul

Ben Askren

The former UFC Welterweight fighter and One Championship and Bellator champion Ben Askren is all set to face the YouTuber, Jake Paul, in his first professional boxing match.

According to the betting odds, Askren is an underdog entering into this fight but he is very much confident about winning this fight. In his latest interview with MMA Fighting, Ben Askren says,

“When I was doing MMA, all my stand up was based around how do I execute the intro to the striking and then get to my wrestling, I was very, very successful at it.”

“I calculated this the other day, I think I got a takedown in 48 out of 50 rounds that I ever fought in mixed martial arts. So my strategy worked really, really, really well. That’s like a 95-percent success rate or somewhere around there.”

“Boxing, obviously it’s different, but I told someone the other day that I’m really good at athletics, I wanted to be a really great wrestler. I won NCAA titles and made the Olympics. I wanted to be a good mixed martial artist. I won multiple belts in multiple organizations.”

“If I want to beat up an amateur boxer, it ain’t gonna take me more than three months of training to do so.”

Ben Askren is excited to see how good he can do in such an amount of time

Ben Askren
Ben Askren

Ben Askren is coming into this fight after his hip surgery that caused the end of his MMA career but he believes that boxing won’t be such big trouble for him and he is excited to see how good he can do in such an amount of time.

He added, “I love the aspect like training to try and be good at something when you think about it, boxing is so much easier than mixed martial arts. You just have to take your two hands and punch somebody in the face.”

“Whereas in mixed martial arts you have to worry about the takedown, you can get takedowns, you can stuff the takedowns, you can clinch them, you can knee them, you can kick them, you can punch them, you can elbow them.”

“Once you’re on the ground, then there’s a whole other boatload of stuff. MMA is almost an information overload. This one is just drilling repetitions, getting in shape, feeling time and distances, that type of stuff.”

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