{"id":181885,"date":"2016-01-07T10:27:40","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T18:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=181885"},"modified":"2018-02-24T21:08:42","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T05:08:42","slug":"ben-askren-believes-all-promotions-will-move-toward-new-weigh-in-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/one-championship\/ben-askren-believes-all-promotions-will-move-toward-new-weigh-in-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Askren believes all promotions will move toward new weigh-in system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mmanews\/one-championship-will-begin-game-changing-weigh-in-procedures-starting-in-2016-and-asks-ufc-to-follow-suit-2\/\">revolutionary weigh-in procedures<\/a> being implemented this year by ONE Championship has got a lot of people talking. The promotion&#8217;s ban on weight-cutting is looking to make fighting a safer sport, and <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mmanews\/one-championship-ceo-victor-cui-all-our-athletes-will-move-up-a-weight-class\/\">Victor Cui<\/a>, CEO of the promotion has made it known that he would like other premier MMA promotions such as the UFC and Bellator to join in the new system. Even UFC <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mmanews\/ufc-color-commentator-joe-rogan-says-the-revolutionary-one-fc-weigh-in-procedure-a-step-forward\/\">color commentator Joe Rogan<\/a> thinks that it is a step in the right direction.<\/p>\n<p>One Championship welterweight champion Ben Askren who will be moving up to middleweight with the new weigh-in system spoke with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2016\/1\/7\/10692256\/ben-askren-moving-to-middleweight-believes-all-will-eventually\">MMA Fighting<\/a> on the new changes.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;If the UFC did that, people would follow course just like they did with USADA testing,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It might be a little harder, but at the end of the day once fighters do it a couple times and they realize they&#8217;re fighting someone their size and they don&#8217;t have to do a severe dehydration, they&#8217;re gonna like it. It&#8217;s safer, it&#8217;s healthier. It&#8217;s better all around for the fighters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The worst 24- to 36-hour period of my whole camp, the part I like the least is the part where I&#8217;ve gotta cut 13 to 15 pounds of water weight. And now you&#8217;re telling me I don&#8217;t have to do that anymore. That&#8217;s not a punishment to me. I wasn&#8217;t saying, &#8216;Shoot, I was really looking forward to that.'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Askren believes that all the promotions will eventually move to a system if not the same as ONE Championship, to something very similar.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;All fighting is going to make a move this way at some point,&#8221; Askren said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s going to happen or how it&#8217;s going to happen or how they&#8217;re going to enforce it. 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