{"id":318893,"date":"2019-07-09T08:19:40","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T15:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=318893"},"modified":"2019-07-09T08:19:40","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T15:19:40","slug":"jorge-masvidal-open-to-future-grappling-match-with-ben-askren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/exclusive-interviews\/jorge-masvidal-open-to-future-grappling-match-with-ben-askren\/","title":{"rendered":"Jorge Masvidal open to future grappling match with Ben Askren"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jorge Masvidal made very short work of his nemesis Ben Askren, flattening the former ONE and Bellator champ with a flying knee just five seconds into their UFC 239 fight.<\/p>\n<p>While this decisive outcome initially looked like it would put an end to the beef between Masvidal and Askren, it&#8217;s become clear that there&#8217;s still some bad blood between them.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, Masvidal would even consider meeting Ben Askren on the grappling mats, spurred on by the potential satisfaction of beating him again \u2014 at his own game.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"castos-iframe-player\" src=\"https:\/\/bjpenn.castos.com\/player\/98663\" width=\"550\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I love to wrestle, and I would&#8217;ve loved to prove that against this guy that he can not hold me down,&#8221; Jorge Masvidal said on <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/podcasts\/bjpenn-com-radio-ep-119-jorge-masvidal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BJPenn.com Radio<\/a>, sharing his regret that his light speed win deprived him of the chance to out-grapple Askren. &#8220;I&#8217;m going to have to grapple him one of these days. When I&#8217;m bored of this fighting stuff and I need to make some quick cash, I&#8217;m going to call him up &#8216;Yo Ben, I&#8217;m going to spank you up bro, in some grappling just to show you who the alpha of alphas is.&#8217; It might sound real rude and [like] I&#8217;m out of my mind, but in a five-minute setting or in a cage type setting grappling, I could give this guy hell man.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not that I&#8217;d like to grapple him, but I know I could beat the dude,&#8221; he added later. &#8220;Do I care for it? It&#8217;ll happen, I&#8217;m sure, one day. Some promotion will call us up, offer us some money for me to drop this guy on his face, and I&#8217;ll prove to the world he wasn&#8217;t going to win that fight grappling either. I know it and he knows it, but I&#8217;m showing it to the rest of the mother fuckers watching.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Does a future grappling match between Jorge Masvidal and Ben Askren interest you? 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