{"id":369888,"date":"2020-12-02T07:01:59","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T15:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=369888"},"modified":"2020-12-02T07:01:59","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T15:01:59","slug":"ben-askren-responds-to-jake-paul-challenge-muay-thai-kickboxing-boxing-lethwei-name-the-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/ben-askren-responds-to-jake-paul-challenge-muay-thai-kickboxing-boxing-lethwei-name-the-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Askren responds to Jake Paul challenge: &#8220;Muay Thai, kickboxing, boxing, Lethwei, name the style&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Bellator and ONE Championship welterweight king Ben Askren has responded to a recent callout from YouTuber turned boxer, Jake Paul.<\/p>\n<p>Paul is the talk of the combat sports world this weekend, after improving to 2-0 as a pro boxer with a violent one-punch knockout of former NBA player<a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/boxing-news\/nate-robinson-issues-statement-following-knockout-loss-to-jake-paul\/\"> Nate Robinson<\/a> last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>In the build-up to and fallout of this fight, Paul called out a host of MMA stars, most notably Conor McGregor, Dillon Danis, Jorge Masvidal, and Askren.<\/p>\n<p>Askren, for what it&#8217;s worth, is down to meet Paul in the boxing ring. He&#8217;s also down to take the YouTuber on in pretty much any other form of combat.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ben Askren Reacts to Leon Edwards\/Khamzat Chimaev Being Off, Responds to Jake Paul After Brutal KO\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c54hF_aL4eE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p id=\"x8T7d3\">\u201cI\u2019m not supposed to do live wrestling for a year post-surgery, which is September 1,\u201d Askren said on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=c54hF_aL4eE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Submission Radio<\/a> this week. \u201cBoxing, that seems kind of easy. Like, I\u2019m sure I could do that. Like, there\u2019s no shots, there\u2019s no slams, there\u2019s not leg locks. I dunno, that seems relatively safe to me.<\/p>\n<p id=\"Dz1uFr\">\u201cMost people are like, oh, I don\u2019t know why Ben Askren would stoop to that level,\u201d Askren continued. \u201cIt\u2019s like, listen, when I was in high school, one of the fun things to do was, a bunch of dudes would come over to the house, we\u2019d put on some boxing gloves and we\u2019d try to beat the shit out of each other. Like, we did that for free, we just did that for fun. And now you\u2019re telling me you\u2019re gonna pay me a whole bunch of money to beat up a YouTube star. Like, I don\u2019t know, that just sounds like a fun Friday night to me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p id=\"fKCUvJ\">\u201cMuay Thai, kickboxing, boxing, Lethwei. Name the style. You name the style, I\u2019ll win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Askren also offered an assessment of Paul&#8217;s KO of Robinson, claiming it didn&#8217;t really provide a lot of information about the YouTuber&#8217;s boxing ability.<\/p>\n<p id=\"q7jHFT\">\u201cIt\u2019s hard to say when you\u2019re going against someone who\u2019s that bad,\u201d Askren said. \u201cI watched the highlights, Nate Robinson, good god. I mean, honestly, it looked like he\u2019d never been boxing before. For someone who\u2019s such an elite athlete \u2013 I mean, this guy\u2019s a very elite athlete, he was a great basketball player \u2013 he couldn\u2019t box worth a damn. So, I guess Jake Paul has as least enough power to put Nate Robinson to sleep. I don\u2019t really know if that tells us very much&#8230;<\/p>\n<p id=\"5FCtq2\">\u201cObviously I\u2019m someone who is a high-level fighter, who has a large following, who was maybe not known for his stand-up. I think that\u2019s probably what he\u2019s thinking. But, I\u2019ve worked out with some other guys, just kind of been around, and they\u2019re not fighters, and they\u2026 every fat guy on the couch in America thinks he can fight, right? They really do. And then once they feel what it really feels like, it\u2019s just different. There\u2019s just this gap. Like, they don\u2019t understand what it really feels like.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Do you think Ben Askren and Jake Paul will end up fighting?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Bellator and ONE Championship welterweight king Ben Askren has responded to a recent callout from YouTuber turned boxer, Jake Paul. Paul is the talk of the combat sports world this weekend, after improving to 2-0 as a pro boxer with a violent one-punch knockout of former NBA player Nate Robinson last weekend. 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