{"id":330195,"date":"2019-10-30T13:36:10","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T20:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=330195"},"modified":"2019-10-30T13:36:10","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T20:36:10","slug":"michael-bisping-demian-maia-was-the-worst-possible-matchup-for-ben-askren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/michael-bisping-demian-maia-was-the-worst-possible-matchup-for-ben-askren\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Bisping: Demian Maia was the worst possible matchup for Ben Askren"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Bisping always believed that Demian Maia would prove to be a tough matchup for Ben Askren.<\/p>\n

This past Saturday, Askren returned to Singapore to meet Maia in a welterweight clash. The bout headlined UFC Singapore in Kallang. “Funky” was hoping to rebound from his record-setting knockout loss<\/a> to Jorge Masvidal back in July. It didn’t pan out for him as he was submitted in the third round via rear-naked choke<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On the latest edition of his Believe You Me podcast<\/em><\/a>, Bisping said that Askren was put in a rough spot with this bout.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oyTP5c0H4tQ<\/p>\n

“When I immediately saw the news that he was fighting Demian Maia, I thought, ‘man that’s not a good matchup for him,'” Michael Bisping said. “To come off getting knocked out so viciously, so you’re gonna have some psychological demons there. And then to go against a guy, Ben Askren everybody knows his game plan is to take you down, and Demian Maia wants to be on the ground. I’m like, ‘Woah that is a tough matchup.’ I respect his balls for taking that fight.”<\/p>\n

Bisping went on to say that Maia was the worst possible fight for Askren to take, but he feels “Funky” can rebound against mid-tier fighters.<\/p>\n

“There’s a lot of the roster he could beat,” Michael Bisping continued. “A lot of the roster that don’t have the takedown defense and certainly don’t have the jiu-jitsu of Demian Maia. So a lot of the mid-tier guys I think Askren could still beat. But then Demian Maia was always potentially the worst possible matchup in the UFC for him. Any high-level jiu-jitsu guy is a bad matchup for Askren. If you put him up against a striker that can’t wrestle too well, he’ll probably win that match all day long. Of course Masvidal proved that wrong, but still that was kind of a fluke occurrence. And I don’t mean fluke, I’m not discrediting the win. I’m saying I don’t think Masvidal would be able to pull that off [again]. I don’t think any striker that Askren wants to fight next would be able to pull that off so quickly and viciously. But I do feel there’s a lot of fights that he can win, but he just needs to step down a little bit. He needs to go to mid-card level against mid-tier competition and I think he’ll do just fine.”<\/p>\n

Do you think Ben Askren can get back on the horse against mid-tier UFC welterweights?<\/p>\n

This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i>BJPENN.COM<\/i><\/span><\/a>\u00a0on 10\/30\/2019.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michael Bisping always believed that Demian Maia would prove to be a tough matchup for Ben Askren. This past Saturday, Askren returned to Singapore to meet Maia in a welterweight clash. The bout headlined UFC Singapore in Kallang. “Funky” was hoping to rebound from his record-setting knockout loss to Jorge Masvidal back in July. 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