{"id":318767,"date":"2019-07-08T12:28:43","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T19:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=318767"},"modified":"2019-07-08T12:28:43","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T19:28:43","slug":"ben-askren-opens-up-on-5-second-ko-loss-to-jorge-masvidal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/ben-askren-opens-up-on-5-second-ko-loss-to-jorge-masvidal\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Askren opens up on 5-second KO loss to Jorge Masvidal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend, Ben Askren found himself on the wrong end of <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/duane-ludwig-praises-jorge-masvidal-for-breaking-his-ufc-ko-record\/\">the new record<\/a> for the fastest KO in UFC history, succumbing to a Jorge Masvidal flying knee just five seconds into their UFC 239 scrap.<\/p>\n<p>Less than 48 hours removed from this violent knockout loss, the former ONE and Bellator welterweight champ appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/1Hqkbtn80Q0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ariel Helwani&#8217;s MMA Show<\/a> to give his take on the way things went down.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/youtu.be\/1Hqkbtn80Q0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cLosses happen, Saturday night was obviously not ideal for myself, but I got nothing to complain about,&#8221; a candid Ben Askren said. &#8220;There\u2019s a little part of my memory that\u2019s blank there. I remember being in the cage with him, I don\u2019t remember the flying knee. When I can remember, I was like \u2018oh shit, I lost to Jorge Masvidal, this freaking sucks.\u2019 Everyone else was more worried about me than I was about myself. I didn\u2019t really have any pain of any sort. Not a headache, nothing in my face hurts. I was just like \u2018ah Jesus, I lost to Jorge Masvidal. How did I lose to him? How fast it?\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI could tell it was fast cause I wasn\u2019t sweaty or sore or anything. I knew it was fast, I just didn\u2019t know exactly how fast it was. Apparently I set a record of some sort.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nobody could have predicted Jorge Masvidal would begin this fight as fast and furiously as he did, but Ben Askren claims he did have a suspicion that his foe might attempt something wild early on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI was ready for knees, and I did say to Duke multiple times in the back \u2018I think he\u2019s going to try something crazy right away.\u2019<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>I don\u2019t know if you remember the [Darren] Till fight, he ran across the ring and kicked Till in the balls in the first four seconds. I just had a inkling that he was going to try something right away,&#8221; Askren said.<\/p>\n<p>While this is of course not the outcome Ben Askren was hoping for, he couldn&#8217;t help but commend Jorge Masvidal \u2014 who he still doesn&#8217;t like, for the record \u2014 on his handiwork in the cage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI always thought, \u2018who the hell gets flying kneed? Can\u2019t you see that coming? It\u2019s coming from so far away!\u2019 When I watched the film \u2014 I don\u2019t like Jorge at all \u2014 but that was a damn good flying knee,&#8221; he said. &#8220;He hit it fast and explosively, he got some serious air time on it, and then obviously connected in the right spot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of these comments from Ben Askren?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><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 7\/8\/2019. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend, Ben Askren found himself on the wrong end of the new record for the fastest KO in UFC history, succumbing to a Jorge Masvidal flying knee just five seconds into their UFC 239 scrap. Less than 48 hours removed from this violent knockout loss, the former ONE and Bellator welterweight champ appeared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":318170,"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 opens up on 5-second KO loss to Jorge Masvidal | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former ONE and Bellator welterweight champion Ben Askren opens up on his five-second, flying knee knockout loss to Jorge Masvidal.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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