{"id":173457,"date":"2015-10-27T10:26:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T17:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=173457"},"modified":"2018-02-24T21:05:07","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T05:05:07","slug":"askren-slams-hendricks-over-pathetic-excuses-with-weight-cutting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/one-championship\/askren-slams-hendricks-over-pathetic-excuses-with-weight-cutting\/","title":{"rendered":"Askren slams Hendricks over &#8220;pathetic excuses&#8221; with weight-cutting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ONE Championship welterweight titleholder Ben Askren is always going to speak his mind. As the undefeated champion of ONE with a 14-0 record, Askren shared his thoughts with <a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2015\/10\/ben-askren-offers-an-unpleasant-assessment-of-johny-hendricks-weight-miss\" target=\"_blank\">MMA Junkie<\/a> on Johny Hendricks missing weight for his fight scheduled against former teammate Tyon Woodley at UFC 192.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>People are finally getting to see what I\u2019ve known about Johny for more than a decade: his pathetic excuses<\/em>,\u201d Askren said as both of them were wrestling in the NCAA Division I during the same time of their college careers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>You were 26 frickin\u2019 pounds over on <\/em>(the)<em> Monday <\/em>(before the fight),\u201d Askren said. Hendricks went on record and said in an interview that a <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mmanews\/oh-deer-hendricks-blaming-bambi-on-botched-weight-cut\/\" target=\"_blank\">diet heavy in deer meat<\/a> didn\u2019t allow him to cut down his weight. Askren puzzled at the excuse said, \u201c<em>What in the world does deer meat have to do with it?<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hendricks ended up in the hospital with a kidney stone and intestinal blockage, which forced Woodly to be left without a fight. As a fighter, Askren hated to see that happen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>For me, it was terrible to see Tyron robbed of an opportunity to show what he has because fighters only get to fight two or three times a year, so when you have one of those opportunities essentially stolen from you, that\u2019s a hard thing to deal with<\/em>,\u201d Askren said.<\/p>\n<p>Askren gets his opportunity to show what he has as a champion fighter on Nov. 14 at ONE Championship 34 where he faces Luis Santos at Singapore Indoor Stadium in Singapore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ONE Championship welterweight titleholder Ben Askren is always going to speak his mind. 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