{"id":318643,"date":"2019-07-07T20:04:34","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T03:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=318643"},"modified":"2019-07-07T20:13:25","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T03:13:25","slug":"ben-askren-responds-to-fan-backlash-in-hilarious-fashion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/ben-askren-responds-to-fan-backlash-in-hilarious-fashion\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Askren responds to fan backlash in hilarious fashion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Askren suffered a brutal knockout loss to Jorge Masvidal on the main card of last night\u2019s UFC 239 event in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>After tons of trash talk, \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/jorge-masvidal-has-a-message-for-anyone-complaining-about-his-post-ko-punches\/\">Gamebred<\/a>\u2019 needed only 5-seconds to end Askren\u2019s undefeated streak, this after landing a flying knee followed by some \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/jorge-masvidal-has-a-message-for-anyone-complaining-about-his-post-ko-punches\/\">controversial<\/a>\u2019 punches.<\/p>\n<p>If that wasn\u2019t enough to damper Ben\u2019s spirits, adding salt to the wound was the fact the Masvidal\u2019s KO was the fastest in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ufc.com\">history<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The former Bellator and ONE champion, Askren (19-1 MMA), reacted to his loss yesterday evening on Twitter with the following: \u201cWell that sucked.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ben Askren received a ton of backlash from fight fans following his historic loss to Masvidal. Because of that, Bellator\u2019s Heather Hardy came to bat for \u2018Funky\u2019.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">MMA is hard man. Stop being assholes when people lose, it takes a ton of balls to step inside that cage.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Heather Heat Hardy (@HeatherHardyBox) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HeatherHardyBox\/status\/1147931628725055488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 7, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cMMA is hard man. Stop being assholes when people lose, it takes a ton of balls to step inside that cage.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ben Askren later responded to Hardy\u2019s tweet with the following testament.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/benaskren\/status\/1148056265941106688?s=21<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLol it\u2019s fine, I probably deserve it &#x1f602;.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prior to his loss to Masvidal, Ben Askren was coming off a controversial win over former welterweight champ Robbie Lawler in his octagon debut.<\/p>\n<p>Who Askren should fight next will be a hotly debated subject. But one name that immediately comes to mind is <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/darren-till-sends-ben-askren-a-message-following-5-second-ko-loss-at-ufc-239\/\">Darren Till<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Who do you think Ben Askren should fight next following his brutal loss to Jorge Masvidal at UFC 239? Sound off in the comments section PENN Nation!<\/p>\n<p>This article first appeared on Bjpenn.com July 7, 2019<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Askren suffered a brutal knockout loss to Jorge Masvidal on the main card of last night\u2019s UFC 239 event in Las Vegas. After tons of trash talk, \u2018Gamebred\u2019 needed only 5-seconds to end Askren\u2019s undefeated streak, this after landing a flying knee followed by some \u2018controversial\u2019 punches. If that wasn\u2019t enough to damper Ben\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54469,"featured_media":304222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10184,39610],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ben Askren responds to fan backlash in hilarious fashion | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ben Askren suffered a brutal knockout loss to Jorge Masvidal on the main card of last night\u2019s UFC 239 event in Las Vegas.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/ben-askren-responds-to-fan-backlash-in-hilarious-fashion\/\" \/>\n<meta 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