Ben Askren reminds his fans that he “doesn’t give a sh*t about the result” in the Jake Paul fight
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Ben Askren who was part of the most anticipated boxing exhibition fights in recent times against Jake Paul has not been shy to speak about his knockout. The fighter is back on shows and podcasts discussing the fight and says he doesn’t really care about how the fight ended. The former Bellator champion also feels that the pay-per-view event wasn’t child friendly.
Ben Askren made an appearance on the ‘Steven Crowder’ podcast after his knockout against Jake Paul at the Triller Fight Club pay-per-view event. The fight ended under 2 minutes when Paul knocked out Askren and the referee called for stoppage as he deemed Ben unfit to continue. Askren is not proud of the fight but is not giving any excuses either.
“I’m disappointed,” Askren said on the podcast with Steven Crowder. “Here’s the thing — when I took the fight, I said No. 1 it’s for the money, No. 2, I think it’s going to be a good time. I used to box my friends in high school just for fun. I trained hard for 11 weeks. I didn’t miss a practice. It just didn’t go my way,” he continued.
“We knew he had a good overhand right and I’m a dumbass and didn’t block it. My defense was a little too loose. I heard my coaches, both Tyron [Woodley] and [Mike] ‘Biggie’ [Rhodes] were saying stop reacting to his fakes and I didn’t. I paid the price,” Ben Askren explained on the podcast.
Ben Askren talks about the criticism from some his own fans
“People were upset that was smiling afterwards with my wife,” Askren explained. “I told all of you people before I took this fight, I don’t give a sh*t about the result. When I’m in there, I’m going to try to fight hard but at the end of the day on Monday, I’m going go back to podcasting and coaching wrestling and my wife said something funny to me and I laughed and people are upset about it?” Askren stressed on the podcast.
Ben Askren also feels that the pre fight show was not child friendly was disgusted by the performances. The event saw big names such as Snoop Dogg, Pete Davidson, Justin Bieber, Ice Cube, Saweetie and Doja Ca performing before the main fight.
“Pete Davidson came to interview me and behind the camera was I believe the executive producer of the show and I said ‘I have a lot of my wrestling kids watching this, my brother and I own five academies, I can’t even imagine what their parents are thinking right now.'” expressed “Funky” about the fight.
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