{"id":265316,"date":"2017-12-08T07:21:04","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T15:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=265316"},"modified":"2017-12-08T07:21:04","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T15:21:04","slug":"ben-askren-tries-lure-georges-st-pierre-fight-power-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ben-askren\/ben-askren-tries-lure-georges-st-pierre-fight-power-bitcoin\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Askren Tries to Lure Georges St-Pierre in a Fight With the Power of Bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Ben Askren retired with a squeaky clean record at ONE: Immortal Pursuit, he left an asterisk above the &#8216;R&#8217; word. He said that the only thing that could lure him back was <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ben-askren\/video-ben-askren-explains-hell-come-back-gsp-not-rory-macdonald\/\">a shot at the best welterweight in the world<\/a>, not the third best, not the second best, but the best. The only problem with that was that Georges St-Pierre was a middleweight now and Tyron Woodley is too great of a friend for Askren to look for a fight with. However, as of last night, <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/georges-st-pierre\/update-georges-st-pierre-vacates-middleweight-title-whittaker-defending-undisputed-title-vs-rockhold\/\">St-Pierre is no longer a middleweight<\/a> and has vacated his middleweight title. That was enough for Askren to double-down on his call-out.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GeorgesStPierre?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GeorgesStPierre<\/a> if you want to make it more interesting I\u2019ll put my bitcoin against yours as a side bet that you don\u2019t make it 5 rounds against me.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ben Askren (@Benaskren) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Benaskren\/status\/938969347548241922?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 8, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span>\u201cI\u2019ve never said I\u2019m retired, period. I\u2019ve said that I\u2019m retired with the caveat that if I somehow get to fight to prove that I\u2019m No. 1 in the world, I will take that opportunity. I\u2019m not gonna fight to be No. 3 or 5 or 7 or anything else. Just to be No. 1, that\u2019s it. It\u2019s not really a money thing, it\u2019s a pride thing.\u00a0<\/span><span>There\u2019s this other guy who was a very famous welterweight named Georges St-Pierre who doesn\u2019t seem to have a dance partner right now and doesn\u2019t seem to want to fight Tyron [Woodley] or<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><span>Robert Whittaker. So I figure, he doesn\u2019t want to get hit hard, I don\u2019t hit that hard. So we might as well just get in there and get after it.\u201cIf he needs a dance partner, I\u2019m more than willing to do it. I\u2019ll come to Montreal and fit the bill for him. We\u2019ll fill out the Bell Centre.\u201d\u00a0\u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2017\/11\/28\/16707424\/ben-askren-retiring-from-mma-unless-he-gets-fight-with-gsp-or-no-1-welterweight-in-the-world\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ben Askren on The MMA Hour.<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t just any regular old fightin&#8217; words, Ben Askren is trying to sweeten the pot for Georges St-Pierre by offering up his Bitcoin in a prop bet. He&#8217;s so confident that the fight wouldn&#8217;t go the distance that he&#8217;s willing to throw down the high-dollar cryptocurrency on it. As we all know, the UFC has been a chasm that Askren just hasn&#8217;t been able to cross his entire career. With the organization\u00a0<span>\u2014<\/span> who has failed to ever come to a deal with the undefeated fighter\u00a0<span>\u2014<\/span> standing in the way, it seems like this fight is highly unlikely, but anything can happen. The UFC being afraid that St-Pierre may do the exact same thing to the welterweight division as he just did to the middleweight division only helps the proposition of a one-off superfight instead of another UFC title bout.<\/p>\n<p><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 12\/8\/2017.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Ben Askren retired with a squeaky clean record at ONE: Immortal Pursuit, he left an asterisk above the &#8216;R&#8217; word. He said that the only thing that could lure him back was a shot at the best welterweight in the world, not the third best, not the second best, but the best. 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