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Undefeated UFC welterweight contender Ben Askren predicted<\/a> Darren Till would defeat Jorge Masvidal in the main event of UFC London last weekend, and hoped to fight him soon thereafter. As we now know, this is not the way things went down, as Till was flattened by his opponent Jorge Masvidal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the wake of Till’s knockout loss to Masvidal, Ben Askren has been forced to reassess the options for his next fight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He says he’s interested in a fight with Jorge Masvidal \u2014 but he’s not sure the feeling is mutual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI would love to fight [Masvidal], but like I said, you heard that post-fight speech, I think he\u2019s trying to find reasons not to fight me,\u201d Askren said on the UFC London post-fight show (transcript via MMA Fighting<\/a>). \u201cHe\u2019s talking about fight for the belt \u2014 prior to this fight, he had two losses in a row. You don\u2019t go from losing two [in a row] to winning one and then all of a sudden you have a belt when there\u2019s all these guys in front of you. It just doesn\u2019t work that way.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ben Askren added that he’d also be interested in fighting Leon Edwards, who impressed him by defeating Gunnar Nelson in the UFC London co-main event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNo one likes Colby,\u201d he said, first taken an opportunity to bash top contender Colby Covington. \u201cI don\u2019t like Colby. I would love to skip over him and fight Usman [for the title], but it doesn\u2019t seem like Usman wants that either. He\u2019s not keeping that same energy, as the kids say. I would love to have him call me out. He didn\u2019t. So, again, I thought Till was going to win tonight. I think we\u2019ll go reevaluate. I\u2019d love to fight Masvidal. I\u2019d love to fight Leon Edwards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI would like someone [ranked] higher [than Edwards], but if that\u2019s who they gave me instead, I would definitely say yes,\u201d continued Askren. \u201cWhat I was surprised about was his ability to do well in the grappling department. I thought that was the place that Gunnar Nelson had a huge advantage in, and Leon Edwards not only got takedowns, he controlled the position on top, he stuffed all of Gunnar Nelson\u2019s takedowns.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While Ben Askren seems pretty open to a number of possible matchups, there’s one he isn’t interested in: a rematch with Robbie Lawler, who he defeated with a controversial submission in his UFC debut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe first guy I asked [the UFC] for was Darren Till actually, and then they said how about Robbie Lawler,\u201d Askren said. \u201cI said, \u2018Listen, I\u2019m here to fight everybody, so if you want me to fight Robbie Lawler, I\u2019ll fight.\u2019 It didn\u2019t take more than a phone call, right? I\u2019ll fight Robbie Lawler, no big deal. But I didn\u2019t want to. And so now I did it once and they want me to go do again. I just, I don\u2019t see how that moves me farther up, and that\u2019s where I want to go, I want to move farther up.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who do you want to see Ben Askren fight next?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This article first appeared on <\/em>BJPENN.COM<\/em><\/a> on 3\/17\/2019.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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