{"id":318894,"date":"2019-07-09T09:35:49","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T16:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=318894"},"modified":"2019-07-09T09:35:49","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T16:35:49","slug":"chael-sonnen-reacts-to-jorge-masvidals-scary-ko-over-ben-askren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/chael-sonnen-reacts-to-jorge-masvidals-scary-ko-over-ben-askren\/","title":{"rendered":"Chael Sonnen reacts to Jorge Masvidal&#8217;s &#8216;scary&#8217; KO over Ben Askren"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chael Sonnen was concerned for Ben Askren after Jorge Masvidal finished him in just five seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Askren vs. Masvidal took place at <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/ufc-239-live-results-and-highlights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UFC 239<\/a> in Las Vegas. It had been dubbed as the &#8220;people&#8217;s main event,&#8221; and it certainly delivered in terms of the highlight reel and record books. Masvidal sprinted at Askren immediately and <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/ufc-239-results-jorge-masvidal-kos-ben-askren-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">landed a flying knee<\/a> that put &#8220;Funky&#8221; to sleep. The five-second finish broke the UFC record for fastest knockout.<\/p>\n<p>Sonnen was in attendance for UFC 239 as he served as an analyst on the ESPN+ desk. He released a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LB3ZigDHn-o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">video on his YouTube channel<\/a> and admitted that he found the knockout to be scary:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jorge Masvidal was setting up that knee all week...\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LB3ZigDHn-o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will tell you I did not enjoy the knockout the way a lot of other people did,&#8221; Chael Sonnen said. &#8220;The arena erupted, I mean this is the culture, this is the sport. I get it, no hard feelings either way. I found it scary. And it would&#8217;ve not matter who it was. That was a scary moment. That was one of the worst knockouts I&#8217;ve ever witnessed. I believe it to be the worst because it was a car wreck. It was head-on. Ben was coming at him and changing [levels]. He was going down as Jorge was coming up. It&#8217;s just really powerful. I sent Ben a text message just saying, &#8216;hey when you have a chance would you just write me back something so I know you&#8217;re OK.&#8217; Two hours later Ben wrote me back. He said, &#8216;all good, but I heard I lost.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With the victory, Jorge Masvidal has now inserted himself in the UFC welterweight title conversation. His teammate Colby Covington was initially set to receive the next shot at Kamaru Usman&#8217;s gold, but took a fight with Robbie Lawler due to &#8220;The Nigerian Nightmare&#8217;s&#8221; recovery time. Covington vs. Lawler takes place on Aug. 3 at UFC Newark.<\/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\/9\/2019. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chael Sonnen was concerned for Ben Askren after Jorge Masvidal finished him in just five seconds. Askren vs. Masvidal took place at UFC 239 in Las Vegas. It had been dubbed as the &#8220;people&#8217;s main event,&#8221; and it certainly delivered in terms of the highlight reel and record books. Masvidal sprinted at Askren immediately and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54476,"featured_media":292745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10184,10104,10515,39610,44808],"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>Chael Sonnen reacts to Jorge Masvidal&#039;s &#039;scary&#039; KO over Ben Askren | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Chael Sonnen was in attendance for UFC 239 and he admits he found Jorge Masvidal&#039;s five-second KO over Ben Askren to be scary.\" \/>\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\/chael-sonnen-reacts-to-jorge-masvidals-scary-ko-over-ben-askren\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Chael Sonnen reacts to Jorge Masvidal&#039;s &#039;scary&#039; 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