{"id":110495,"date":"2014-08-31T14:53:37","date_gmt":"2014-08-31T21:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=110495"},"modified":"2018-02-24T20:51:52","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T04:51:52","slug":"dana-white-interested-in-signing-ben-askren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/one-championship\/dana-white-interested-in-signing-ben-askren\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White Interested In Signing Ben Askren"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/coach-askren-being-used-as-pawn-between-two-promotions\/askren-5\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-71305\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/askren.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"askren\" width=\"390\" height=\"270\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-71305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/askren.png 390w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/askren-300x207.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/askren-361x250.png 361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ben Askren has been campaigning very hard for a fight in the UFC, something Dana White has been less than thrilled about.  Askren has tried everything from confronting Johny Hendricks at the TUF finale, to taking shots at the welterweight champ and Dana White on Twitter, but nothing has worked&#8230;Until now.<\/p>\n<p>UFC President Dana White is warming up to signing the newly crowned ONE FC champion to the UFC, saying:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI think if he keeps winning, he could get a shot over here.  Listen, Ben Askren said a lot of stupid sh-t when he left, but I don\u2019t care about stuff like that.  I could care less about any of that. We\u2019ll see how the kid fights, what he keeps doing, and we\u2019ll go from there. Contrary to popular belief \u2013 well, no, I do hold grudges if you\u2019re a real idiot. Yeah, I\u2019ll hold a grudge until the day I drop dead.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut with fighters, I don\u2019t really do that with fighters. These guys are built differently than everybody. They\u2019re tough, man, and this is what they do for a living, and they\u2019re going to say stuff like that. If Tito (Ortiz) could come back to the UFC, anybody can come in here. Believe me, because there\u2019s nobody on earth I hated more than Tito. And Tito came back. You don\u2019t have to like them to do business with them. So we\u2019ll see.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Now Askren is the one who seems less than thrilled about the potential signing, Tweeting after:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Oh thank you master <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/danawhite\">@danawhite<\/a> can I please have a shot<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ben Askren (@Benaskren) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Benaskren\/statuses\/505972442259419136\">August 31, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Askren has been campaigning very hard for a fight in the UFC, something Dana White has been less than thrilled about. Askren has tried everything from confronting Johny Hendricks at the TUF finale, to taking shots at the welterweight champ and Dana White on Twitter, but nothing has worked&#8230;Until now. UFC President Dana White [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2616,"featured_media":71305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[19776],"tags":[10040,127,255,9,11,683,15],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dana White Interested In Signing Ben Askren | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/one-championship\/dana-white-interested-in-signing-ben-askren\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dana White Interested In Signing Ben Askren | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ben Askren has been campaigning very hard for a fight in the UFC, something Dana White has been less than thrilled about. 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