{"id":119766,"date":"2014-11-19T10:15:03","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T18:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backend.bjpenn.com\/?p=119766"},"modified":"2018-02-24T20:56:22","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T04:56:22","slug":"white-askren-doesnt-want-fight-big-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/one-championship\/white-askren-doesnt-want-fight-big-show\/","title":{"rendered":"White on Askren: &#8220;He doesn\u2019t want to fight in the big show&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/backend.bjpenn.com\/white-askren-doesnt-want-fight-big-show\/white-upset\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-119767\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/backend.bjpenn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/White-upset.png\" alt=\"White upset\" width=\"550\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-119767\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/White-upset.png 550w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/White-upset-300x207.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/White-upset-361x250.png 361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Widely believed to be the best prospect outside of the UFC, ONE FC welterweight champion, Ben Askren has found himself at odds with UFC President Dana White on more than one occasion.<\/p>\n<p>Dana White spoke to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/video\/otr-like-em-or-don-t-like-em-with-dana-white-1.138404\" target=\"_blank\">TSN&#8217;s &#8216;Off the Record&#8217;<\/a> about Askren, and why he hasn&#8217;t signed the prospect yet.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cBen Askren, I don\u2019t hate him,\u201d White said. \u201cLet me tell you. I\u2019m going to tell you this. He signed with somebody else. The guy signed with somebody else out in Asia. He\u2019s fighting. He\u2019s got a contract.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe thing is with Ben Askren, I\u2019ve talked to some people that are closer to Ben Askren than me, and they have told me straight up that they truly believe that he doesn\u2019t want to fight in the big show, and that\u2019s why he does the things that he does. True or not, I don\u2019t know, but that\u2019s the story.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>However, Askren has been very outspoken about wanting the opportunity to fight UFC welterweight champion Johny Hendricks, and even trolled Hendricks at a recent UFC event earlier this year (Read that <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/twitter-beef-ben-askren-slams-johny-hendricks\/\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>That would be quite the interesting plot twist, do you think it&#8217;s true?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Widely believed to be the best prospect outside of the UFC, ONE FC welterweight champion, Ben Askren has found himself at odds with UFC President Dana White on more than one occasion. Dana White spoke to TSN&#8217;s &#8216;Off the Record&#8217; about Askren, and why he hasn&#8217;t signed the prospect yet. \u201cBen Askren, I don\u2019t hate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2616,"featured_media":119767,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[19776],"tags":[127,255,9,480,11,15],"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>White on Askren: &quot;He doesn\u2019t want to fight in the big show&quot; | 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\/white-askren-doesnt-want-fight-big-show\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"White on Askren: &quot;He doesn\u2019t want to fight in the big show&quot; | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Widely believed to be the best prospect outside of the UFC, ONE FC welterweight champion, Ben Askren has found himself at odds with UFC President Dana White on more than one occasion. 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