Ben Askren isn’t hiding from his loss to Jake Paul powerful less allowing that fight to replace his demeanor despite how it all done out.
This past weekend on the Triller Fight Club pay-per-uncover about, the retired UFC fighter suffered a brutal first spherical knockout after Paul blasted him with a appropriate hand that effect him down on the canvas. While Askren change into in a state to derive help to his ft, he change into aloof wobbled by the shot and the referee sure that he can also no longer proceed.
The stoppage got right here at 1: 59 within the principle spherical and whereas Askren with out a doubt isn’t celebrating the , he’s additionally now no longer going to method any excuses or faux treasure the knockout is just a few form of wide, lifestyles altering 2d for him.
“I’m disappointed,” Askren said on the ‘Steven Crowder’ podcast. “I didn’t utilize a lot of time on social media the day earlier than this day. I had some high college pals over, we done disc golf, grilled out, had a merely time. Some folk, they don’t assume I took it severely. Here’s the object — when I took the fight, I said No. 1 it’s for the cash, No. 2, I have faith it’s going to be a merely time. I used to field my pals in high college stunning for enjoyable. I trained hard for 11 weeks. I didn’t pass over a apply. It stunning didn’t depart my formula.
“We knew he had a merely overhand appropriate and I’m a dumbass and didn’t block it. My protection change into a shrimp too loose. I heard my coaches, both Tyron [Woodley] and [Mike] ‘Biggie’ [Rhodes] were asserting live reacting to his fakes and I didn’t. I paid the mark. I have faith one in every of the things that of course separates me from a lot of oldsters, I’m in a position to also believe very without ache sat on my couch and said ‘I don’t deserve to absorb that due to the there’s a seemingly that I’ll be embarrassed.’ That would effectively be basically the most attractive motive I wouldn’t believe accomplished it. There’s no other right motive. I said I’m going to absorb it, f*ck it, I’m going to absorb it.”
As rapidly as the fight change into accomplished, Askren exited the ring and made his formula backstage with his coaches and his wife by his aspect.
Per Askren, he in actuality got some blowback from followers who were upset that he change into smiling after the fight but he finds that reaction stunning ridiculous.
“Other folks were upset that change into smiling afterwards with my wife,” Askren outlined. “I told all of you folk sooner than I took this fight, I don’t give a sh*t in regards to the live consequence. When I’m in there, I’m going to lift a gape at to fight hard but on the live of the day on Monday, I’m going return to podcasting and teaching wrestling and my wife said one thing comic to me and I laughed and folk are upset about it?
“They in actuality would genuinely like to derive a lifestyles and I have faith they’re making an attempt to utilize their very believe emotions on me.”
Previous the fight itself, Askren additionally headlined one in every of basically the most talked about events of the year as Triller — a social media platform that boasts rapper Snoop Dogg as one in every of the co-founders — produced a reward for the ages that integrated four expert boxing bouts, commentary with appearances by comedian Pete Davidson and Oscar De La Hoya to boot to musical performances from the likes of Justin Bieber, Ice Dice, Saweetie and Doja Cat.
The grownup-themed showcase with out a censor in glimpse even had Askren blushing backstage as he well-known throughout the present whereas tweeting out “this isn’t child friendly leisure.”
Man this isn’t child friendly leisure.
— Funky (@Benaskren) April 18, 2021
Askren even went so some distance as admonishing the producer leisurely the present, Bert Marcus, when backstage interviews were being done.
“You heard me scold the owner of the switch when they got right here to my locker room. That’s are residing on camera,” Askren said. “Pete Davidson got right here to interview me and leisurely the camera change into I have faith in regards to the government producer of the present and I said ‘I believe a lot of my wrestling formative years watching this, my brother and I believe 5 academies, I’m in a position to’t even believe what their folk are thinking appropriate now.’
“I possess so effing guilty that their folk are either having to kick them out or treasure imprint to them what the hell’s going on appropriate right here.”
While he admits to being “form of socially liberal,” even Askren wasn’t satisfied with one of the crucial notable performances on camouflage throughout the Triller pay-per-uncover about.
“The first fight change into a DJ versus a boxer, which change into genuinely irregular,” Askren said referencing the fight between Joe Fournier and Reykon that opened the present. “Yeah but then it change into a genuinely very prolonged time except the subsequent fight got right here up. Mostly musical performances and dancing.
“Presumably I’m The US’s dad but I did bag the leisure to be very distasteful and I have faith each person in my locker room felt within the same plan.”
Objections apart, Askren took phase in one in every of basically the most publicized events of the year and he’ll probably reap the advantages with pay-per-uncover about earnings to boot to to his disclosed $500,000 payday.
