{"id":75777,"date":"2013-11-23T14:32:49","date_gmt":"2013-11-23T22:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=75777"},"modified":"2022-02-06T12:27:03","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T20:27:03","slug":"weekend-poll-should-the-ufc-sign-ben-askren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bellator\/weekend-poll-should-the-ufc-sign-ben-askren\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Poll | Should The UFC Sign Ben Askren?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/ASkren_edited-11.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26791\" title=\"ASkren_edited-1\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/ASkren_edited-11.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"390\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nUndefeated welterweight fighter and recently released Bellator champion, Ben Askren finds himself in an odd state of career limbo as of late.<\/p>\n<p>Having <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ben-askren-will-fight-rory-macdonald-for-free-retire-if-he-loses\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">expressed his desires to fight for the UFC<\/a>, when finally released from his Bellator obligations, the\u00a0UFC boss, <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/dana-white-has-no-interest-in-signing-funky-ben-askren\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dana White said he had no interest<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Askren and company are <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufc-meeting-with-ben-askren-monday-dana-white-still-uninterested\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">set have a sitdown with the UFC brass this upcoming Monday<\/a> in hopes to stroke a deal.<\/p>\n<p>So we ask you, should the UFC sign Ben Askren?<\/p>\n<p>[poll id=&#8217;18&#8217;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Undefeated welterweight fighter and recently released Bellator champion, Ben Askren finds himself in an odd state of career limbo as of late. Having expressed his desires to fight for the UFC, when finally released from his Bellator obligations, the\u00a0UFC boss, Dana White said he had no interest. Still, Askren and company are set have a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2616,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[44,2681],"tags":[10040,127,147,255,11,649,15,16],"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>Weekend Poll | Should The UFC Sign Ben Askren? | BJPenn.com<\/title>\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\/bellator\/weekend-poll-should-the-ufc-sign-ben-askren\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Weekend Poll | Should The UFC Sign Ben Askren? | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Undefeated welterweight fighter and recently released Bellator champion, Ben Askren finds himself in an odd state of career limbo as of late. 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