{"id":325529,"date":"2019-09-16T13:24:39","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T20:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=325529"},"modified":"2019-09-16T13:55:07","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T20:55:07","slug":"ben-askren-sends-scathing-message-to-conor-mcgregor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/ben-askren-sends-scathing-message-to-conor-mcgregor\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Askren sends scathing message to Conor McGregor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Askren and Conor McGregor recently had a brief skirmish on social media. Speaking on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/video\/clip\/_\/id\/27631151\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ariel Helwani&#8217;s MMA Show<\/a> on Monday, Askren continued with this war of words by sending a scathing message to the former two-division UFC champion.<\/p>\n<p>By Askren&#8217;s estimation, McGregor needs to take a fight \u2014 perhaps with Dustin Poirier, who recently called him out. If McGregor is unwilling to do that, Askren believes <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/donald-cerrone-sends-message-to-long-absent-conor-mcgregor\/\">he needs to keep quiet.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s what I do on social media, I poke people,\u201d Askren said of his recent Twitter exchange with McGregor (transcript via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lowkickmma.com\/ben-askren-conor-mcgregor-shut-up-fight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LowKickMMA.com<\/a>). \u201cI think he probably spends a large portion of his day drinking, and so, a lot of his responses are kind of shenanigans, nonsensical, they don\u2019t make a whole lot of sense. It was just like, I was getting annoyed \u2014 and listen, people in my mentions, they think I don\u2019t get to have an opinion because I\u2019m a fighter or something.<\/p>\n<p data-pw-in-article=\"true\">\u201cI get to have an opinion,&#8221; Askren continued. &#8220;I like MMA, if I want to have an opinion, I get to have an opinion, and my opinion is, a Dustin Poirier fight is a good option for Conor, Conor should shut up, stop trying to act too good for it \u2014 take the fight, take a fight, take any fight, we don\u2019t care.<\/p>\n<p data-pw-in-article=\"true\">\u201cWe just want to hear you shut up on social media and actually take a fight. I mean, give me a damn break. It\u2019s been a year? More than a year? Before that, another year. It\u2019s like, come on man. Get in there and shut up. No more Tweets let&#8217;s fight already. Conor can Tweet. He just can\u2019t Tweet about fighting anyone without fighting, or saying he\u2019s too good for fighting anyone without hopping in there. So he can Tweet about whatever he wants. Just not about saying, \u201cI\u2019m tough I\u2019m gonna fight,\u201d unless you actually fight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of this comment from Ben Askren? How do you think Conor McGregor will respond?<\/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 9\/16\/2019.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Askren and Conor McGregor recently had a brief skirmish on social media. Speaking on Ariel Helwani&#8217;s MMA Show on Monday, Askren continued with this war of words by sending a scathing message to the former two-division UFC champion. By Askren&#8217;s estimation, McGregor needs to take a fight \u2014 perhaps with Dustin Poirier, who recently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54459,"featured_media":325000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10184,10089,39610],"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 sends scathing message to Conor McGregor | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former ONE and Bellator champ Ben Askren sends a scathing messsage to long-absent two-division UFC champion Conor McGregor.\" \/>\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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