{"id":76672,"date":"2013-12-02T09:45:03","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T17:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=76672"},"modified":"2022-02-06T12:26:21","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T20:26:21","slug":"askren-making-move-to-singapore-rumors-of-onefc-signing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/askren-making-move-to-singapore-rumors-of-onefc-signing\/","title":{"rendered":"Askren Making Move To Singapore, Rumors Of OneFC Signing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/askren.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-71305\" title=\"askren\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/askren.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"390\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/askren.png 390w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/askren-300x207.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/askren-361x250.png 361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe hottest free-agent on the MMA Market right now has got to be undefeated former Bellator champion, Ben Askren.<\/p>\n<p>The man they call &#8216;Funky&#8217; had <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ben-askren-will-fight-rory-macdonald-for-free-retire-if-he-loses\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hoped to get signed by the UFC<\/a> but after <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufc-meeting-with-ben-askren-monday-dana-white-still-uninterested\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">failed negotiations<\/a> the future of the former Olympic wrestler has been in doubt.<\/p>\n<p>Overnight news spread of his move to Singapore as the latest member of the world-renowned EvolveMMA Fight team.<\/p>\n<p>With a rich roster of OneFC talent, many are making the connection that Askren will look to Asia&#8217;s largest MMA promotion while continuing his climb through the ranks.<\/p>\n<p>While most of this is pure speculation Askren himself took to twitter with the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">To clarify I will be starting my camps at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/roufusport?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Roufusport<\/a> then finishing them at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EvolveMMA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@EvolveMMA<\/a>   This should be an awesome new chapter to my life<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Funky (@Benaskren) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Benaskren\/status\/407208993312878592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 1, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hottest free-agent on the MMA Market right now has got to be undefeated former Bellator champion, Ben Askren. The man they call &#8216;Funky&#8217; had hoped to get signed by the UFC but after failed negotiations the future of the former Olympic wrestler has been in doubt. Overnight news spread of his move to Singapore [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2616,"featured_media":71305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10086],"tags":[10040,127,147,255,649,2831,15],"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>Askren Making Move To Singapore, Rumors Of OneFC Signing | 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\/askren-making-move-to-singapore-rumors-of-onefc-signing\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Askren Making Move To Singapore, Rumors Of OneFC Signing | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The hottest free-agent on the MMA Market right now has got to be undefeated former Bellator champion, Ben Askren. 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