{"id":135946,"date":"2015-04-06T07:24:13","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T14:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=135946"},"modified":"2018-02-24T21:01:54","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T05:01:54","slug":"askren-ufc-will-probably-never-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/one-championship\/askren-ufc-will-probably-never-happen\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Askren: &#8216;Going To The UFC Probably Will Never Happen&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/BEN-ASKREN1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/BEN-ASKREN1.png\" alt=\"BEN ASKREN1\" width=\"730\" height=\"380\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-127497\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/BEN-ASKREN1.png 730w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/BEN-ASKREN1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/BEN-ASKREN1-585x305.png 585w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/BEN-ASKREN1-390x203.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One Championship&#8217;s welterweight champion Ben Askren recently spoke out about his relationship with the UFC and why he thinks he may never be a part of that organization.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Every weekend. Every weekend it&#8217;s on my Twitter. I don&#8217;t know, I think it&#8217;s kind of becomes a rallying cry for the people who realize Dana (White) is doing a lot of stupid things. I think I&#8217;m the thing that people can point that&#8217;s the easiest one, that everyone can commonly agree on that Dana f**ked this one up. We all know he messes a lot of things up, but I&#8217;m the easiest one to point out. I think that&#8217;s where it comes from, that a lot of people don&#8217;t like the things that he does and I&#8217;m the easiest thing to point to, see how he blew something.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I mean, I think people realize that I&#8217;m one of the best welterweights, whether I&#8217;m number-one, or number-four, or number-five, or number-six. They know I&#8217;m up there, they just don&#8217;t know where because I haven&#8217;t been able to fight those people. 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