When YouTube celebrity turned boxer Jake Paul called out Ben Askren for a fight, the former Bellator and ONE champion was admittedly at a loss.
It wasn’t because he hadn’t been called out before because that was just part of the job while Askren was in the middle of his mixed martial arts career. Instead, he explains outside of hearing the name, he had no idea why the 24-year-old “influencer” was getting so much attention.
“Honestly, when he first called me out, I had heard the name but I didn’t know anything about him whatsoever,” Askren said when speaking to MMA Fighting.