Even before the fight happened on Saturday night, on the card headlined by Mike Tyson vs. Roy Jones Jr., Jake Paul and Ben Askren had taken digs at each other on Twitter.
Speaking to Submission Radio, Ben Askren addressed Jake Paul’s challenge and said that he would beat him in any form of combat sports.
Ben Askren says “name the style, I’ll win”
Jake Paul’s knockout of Nate Robinson was indeed an impressive sight. However, given how inexperienced the former basketball player looked inside the ring, Ben Askren is not ready to give Paul credit.
The former Olympian wrestler was welterweight champion at Bellator and ONE Championship, but did not have a great run in UFC. Nevertheless, Ben Askren believes there will always be a “gap” between fighters and non-fighters. He claimed there is something that non-fighters do not understand until they go up against an actual athlete.
Ben Askren has said that he would have no qualms about fighting Jake Paul for a good sum of money. He is confident about beating him in any style of fighting, be it Muay Thai, kickboxing, boxing, or anything else.
Given that Nate Robinson made $600,000 on top of the PPV percentage, despite losing Saturday’s fight, Ben Askren’s motivation is certainly not misplaced.
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