He was an NCAA Division I champ, went to the Olympics, was a champion in both Bellator and ONE, competed in the UFC at the end of his career, and capped off all of that by losing BOTH OF HIS LUNGS, getting a DOUBLE LUNG TRANSPLANT, and coming back for one more wrestling match after that: Does this mean Askren won every fight? Not at all. In fact, later in his career, he had a couple of particularly humiliating defeats. He lost to Jake Paul in a boxing match early in his career, back when pretty much nobody realized Paul had at least SOME SKILLS as a boxer: Worse yet, Askren was on the receiving end of one of the most iconic knockouts in UFC history. A brutal flying knee from Jorge Masvidal right at the beginning of the fight. It set a…Open
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