{"id":290508,"date":"2018-11-06T16:54:49","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T00:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=290508"},"modified":"2018-11-06T16:54:49","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T00:54:49","slug":"video-sijara-eubanks-puts-ben-askren-on-blast-after-backstage-encounter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/video-sijara-eubanks-puts-ben-askren-on-blast-after-backstage-encounter\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO | Sijara Eubanks puts Ben Askren on blast after backstage encounter"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWhat are you stepping to me for?\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SarJnCharge?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SarJnCharge<\/a> confronted <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Benaskren?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Benaskren<\/a> at MSG on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>Full: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uo1C71zuhH\">https:\/\/t.co\/uo1C71zuhH<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XBcam07D2Y\">pic.twitter.com\/XBcam07D2Y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ariel Helwani (@arielhelwani) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/arielhelwani\/status\/1059915958033309697?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 6, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;I saw Ben Askren backstage right after my fight [with Roxanne Modaferri at UFC 230] and he was doing some kind of interview and I was like, &#8216;what&#8217;s up? Like what&#8217;s up? What&#8217;s your problem?&#8217; He&#8217;s like, &#8216;why don&#8217;t you focus on making weight?&#8217; and I&#8217;m like, &#8216;why don&#8217;t you mind your own f*cking business?&#8217; And then I started to tell him some more sh*t but he&#8217;s there with his wife or whoever that was and he&#8217;s trying to do his interview.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But I said something to him too. I&#8217;m not scared of nobody. Because what is Ben Askren -what&#8217;re you stepping to me for? Like for what? You&#8217;re not a troll, you&#8217;re not a fan, you&#8217;re a fighter. You mad cause I&#8217;m in the UFC? Cause more people know about me my &#8216;four little fights&#8217; and you been out here wrestling everybody to death for the last 20 f*cking years and nobody cares?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Like what are you stepping to me for? So like, I came to him the way I came to you, the way I came to Joe [Rogan] like, &#8216;what&#8217;s up, man?&#8217; and he got all serious and puffed his chest out and I&#8217;m like, &#8216;man, f*ck you, bro&#8217;. You&#8217;re a 170-pound man what you gonna do?&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s no secret that Sijara Eubanks has gotten under some people&#8217;s skin since her name got attached to UFC 230. One of those arguably being newest UFC signee, Ben Askren.<\/p>\n<p>After <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc-231\/valentina-shevchenko-vs-joanna-jedrzejczyk-back-on-for-ufc-231\/\">losing her headlining spot of the Madison Square Garden card alongside Valentina Shevchenko<\/a>, many claimed that Eubanks began to act unnecessarily\u00a0entitled due to the general magnitude that comes with MSG events accompanied by her 3-2 record (now 4-2 after UFC 230).<\/p>\n<p>On top of that, there were the weight issues which reared their head once again at the UFC 230 weigh-ins\u00a0as <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/daniel-cormier\/ufc-230-weigh-in-results-daniel-cormier-derrick-lewis-hit-marks-two-fighters-miss-weight\/\">Eubanks came in over the 125-pound mark<\/a>. Which led to <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/ben-askren-lectures-sijara-eubanks-for-ufc-230-weigh-in-miss-time-to-grow-up\/\">a scolding from Askren on Twitter<\/a> which then led to their encounter backstage at the event this past Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/roxanne-modafferi\/ufc-230-results-sijara-eubanks-defeats-roxanne-modafferi\/\">Eubanks would pick up her second career victory over Roxanne Modafferi<\/a> at UFC 230 and <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/robbie-lawler\/ben-askren-vs-robbie-lawler-in-the-works-for-ufc-233\/\">Askren looks to be soon making his debut against Robbie Lawler<\/a> so the two can go their separate ways.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>This article first appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\">BJPenn.com<\/a> on 11\/6\/2018<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhat are you stepping to me for?\u201d@SarJnCharge confronted @Benaskren at MSG on Saturday. 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