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Ben Askren didn’t get the result he wanted last Saturday against Jake Paul, losing via first round TKO, but the former MMA champion isn’t shying away from talking about it.
Askren spoke with Ariel Helwani of ESPN about the fight and the event, and here’s a bit of what he had to say.
On what he might have done differently
“I would have kept my damn left hand in. I just couldn’t break the habit in the time I needed to break the habit in. I fought for a decade and that was the way I fought. There was no negative repercussions from it in (MMA), I never took an overhand right in (MMA), not one time I don’t believe it. If I did, it was insignificant, it wasn’t a hard one. That was mostly because I could bait people into then attacking the body or attacking (with) the double-leg.”
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