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Jorge Masvidal on Jake Paul’s KO win over Ben Askren: ‘I told you so’

Jorge Masvidal wasn’t the least bit surprised at the outcome of Ben Askren’s boxing debut against Jake Paul, claiming that he picked the ‘The Problem Child’ to win from the outset.

Masvidal, who is renowned for his flying knee KO of Askren at UFC 239, helped Paul prepare for the bout and said the result was a foregone conclusion.

“All I gotta say is, I told you so,” Masvidal said of Paul’s first-round knockout of Askren last Saturday (h/t Low Kick MMA). “I told everybody — and the MMA world was mad at me that, you know, he (Ben Askren) was representing MMA.