{"id":274814,"date":"2018-04-18T17:47:15","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T00:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=274814"},"modified":"2018-04-18T18:04:16","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T01:04:16","slug":"ben-askren-and-rory-macdonald-share-interest-in-potential-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ben-askren\/ben-askren-and-rory-macdonald-share-interest-in-potential-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Askren and Rory MacDonald Share Interest in Potential Fight!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite what many may be led to believe, there is a flawlessly dominant wrestler outside of the UFC that may be a lot more well known than people assume. That wrestler turned undefeated multi-time MMA champion is none other than &#8216;Funky&#8217; Ben Askren.<\/p>\n<p>Askren went 18-0 in his professional career before semi-retiring this past November. Funky Ben was most well known for being the dominant champion of both Bellator and ONE Championship.<\/p>\n<p>As mentioned, he&#8217;s now semi-retired. Meaning he&#8217;s still willing to fight&#8230;it just has to be against the best option.<\/p>\n<p>Most notably, Askren has called for a fight with one of the MMA all-time greats, Georges St-Pierre and Askren has gone as far to proclaim that he believes the two will end up fighting in the UFC by next year&#8217;s end. The fans are interested in this idea as well as evidenced by a poll that BJPenn.com&#8217;s own Chris Taylor conducted back in November after GSP&#8217;s big middleweight title victory.<\/p>\n<p>The poll asked who you would like to see St-Pierre fight next and closed with 7435 votes. The options were interim UFC middleweight champion at the time, Robert Whittaker(30% of the votes), UFC welterweight champion, Tyron Woodley(18%), UFC lightweight champion at the time, <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/fighter\/conor-mcgregor\/\">Conor McGregor<\/a>(21%) and the poll winner with 31%, Ben Askren.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Who would you like to see <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GeorgesStPierre?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GeorgesStPierre<\/a> fight next? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/robwhittakermma?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@robwhittakermma<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TWooodley?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TWooodley<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheNotoriousMMA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TheNotoriousMMA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Benaskren?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Benaskren<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chris Taylor (@CTaylor_96) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CTaylor_96\/status\/935649176842653697?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 28, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>However, there was a time where Askren also had some interest in competing against one of GSP&#8217;s top proteges and teammates, the current Bellator champion, Rory MacDonald. Around the time of St-Pierre vs Johny Hendricks, Askren found himself looking for a new home and hoping it would be the UFC where MacDonald was quickly rising to the top in his division.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;I would fight for free and retire from the sport of MMA [If I lost] because that&#8217;s how confident I am that I will beat Rory <\/em>MacDonald.<em>&#8221; Askren told <a href=\"http:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/1856102\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bleacher Report<\/a> in 2013<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And now, it seems that there is interest on both sides for this potential clash between current and former Bellator welterweight kings as the two exchanged words on Twitter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">im good with that to<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Rory MacDonald (@rory_macdonald) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rory_macdonald\/status\/986720452910440448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 18, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">i have asked  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ScottCoker?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ScottCoker<\/a> about getting you in bellator for a fight, i guesse you need to do your part<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Rory MacDonald (@rory_macdonald) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rory_macdonald\/status\/986752677467082752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 18, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">i disagree<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Rory MacDonald (@rory_macdonald) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rory_macdonald\/status\/986752767388733441?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 18, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>@mmarcopoloo: @rory_macdonald <\/em>i<em> see u want champ vs champ. how about @Benaskren??<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>MacDonald: <\/em>im<em> good with that <\/em>to<\/p>\n<p><em>Askren: Tell your boss<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>MacDonald: <\/em>i<em> have asked @ScottCoker about getting you in <\/em>bellator<em> for a fight, <\/em>i guesse<em> you need to do your part<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Askren: You think you could go the distance? I think I finish@you in round 3, the fight looks similar to what Condit did to you in round 3<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>MacDonald: <\/em>i<em> disagree<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For the &#8216;Red King&#8217; Rory MacDonald, he just recently became the Bellator 170-pound champion when he defeated Douglas Lima by unanimous decision back in January. Askren, on the other hand, held the Bellator title from 2010-2013 and defended it four times(including a win over Lima as well).<\/p>\n<p>Would you be interested in seeing Askren return to the house he made his name in to challenge their new king?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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 4\/18\/2018.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite what many may be led to believe, there is a flawlessly dominant wrestler outside of the UFC that may be a lot more well known than people assume. That wrestler turned undefeated multi-time MMA champion is none other than &#8216;Funky&#8217; Ben Askren. Askren went 18-0 in his professional career before semi-retiring this past November. 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