Former ONE Championship and Bellator champion Ben Askren may be retired, but he’s confident that status is only temporary. Appearing on this week’s episode of the MMA Hour with Ariel Helwani, the undefeated welterweight repeatedly asserted that in 2019 he will, “go to the Bell Centre in Montreal… beat up GSP, and have around 20,000 Canadians booing me”.
“Funky” also responded to Georges St-Pierre’s lukewarm interest in the bout. This was expressed in an interview on the preceding week’s MMA hour.