[Boxing] Jake Paul vs Ben Askren on April 17

[notblox1]

ESPN and Ariel Helwani just announced that Jake Paul will be fighting ex UFC/MMA fighter Ben Askren in eight round pro boxing match on April 17
I have no idea why Ben Askren would accept this match, because he was never known as a fighter with great boxing skills, and he was more known for his wrestling and grappling.

Fight is organized by Triller, same company that was promoting latest Mike Tyson fight against Roy Jones Junior.

Ben Askren UFC record 19-2
Jake Paul boxing record 2-0

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[Bttzed03]

Wait what?! The Ben Askren that was on the receiving end of the fastest KO in the UFC history? An MMA fighter who specializes in wrestling is competing in a fist fight Is this fight for charity? If yes, I'll support it. If not, I hope nobody buys tickets/PPVs.

[Yaunfitda]

Wait what?! The Ben Askren that was on the receiving end of the fastest KO in the UFC history? An MMA fighter who specializes in wrestling is competing in a fist fight Is this fight for charity? If yes, I'll support it. If not, I hope nobody buys tickets/PPVs.

LMAO, yes the same Ben Askren who has a lot of hype around him when he switch to UFC, who trash talk his way, but then Masvidal took out his soul in just 5 seconds.

https://www.mmafighting.com/2021/1/26/22250331/ben-askren-to-fight-jake-paul-in-pro-boxing-bout-on-april-17

It's say "pro-boxing", so I don't know if that means charity fight. In any case, yeah, just another hype fight all for the money.

[Hydrogen]

Ben Askren's showed toughness and a high capacity to absorb damage in his fight with Robbie Lawler.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5vrfZNMeaA

They say you can't teach toughness and heart. There are many who hit hard and appear to have impressive skills. Who end up being glass cannons. They can dish it out, but can't take it.

I think Ben Askren could win the fight with his toughness, durability, aggressiveness and pace.

Its not a guaranteed win for Jake Paul who has never really been tested.

[Natalim]

What is happening to the world of sports now? why do we have a lot of clown who try to ruined the reputation of the sport?

A youtuber fighting an ex MMA fighter, I don't like what I'm seeing anymore, sorry, but I feel like they are trying to make a circus in the sports just to make money. They use their popularity to influence their followers so they can get some money by supporting their fight. Unreal, the Logan brothers are really focus on boxing now than on their youtube channel.

The set up is now different, start making yourself popular in youtube so you can be a boxer.  

[Twinkledoe]

What is happening to the world of sports now? why do we have a lot of clown who try to ruined the reputation of the sport?

A youtuber fighting an ex MMA fighter, I don't like what I'm seeing anymore, sorry, but I feel like they are trying to make a circus in the sports just to make money. They use their popularity to influence their followers so they can get some money by supporting their fight. Unreal, the Logan brothers are really focus on boxing now than on their youtube channel.

The set up is now different, start making yourself popular in youtube so you can be a boxer. 

Sad but that's the reality here for now. Maybe promoters are favouring these fights because they need to raise money as they don't have assurance to generate money from the gate because of the pandemic crisis. So they are banking on the popularity of the fighters, and hoping that people will buy the PPV for the match. I hope this trend will not continue as we are missing a lot of great fighters in this generation.

[robelneo]

Ben Askren is good in grappling I have seen a lot of his winning in grappling but I don't know how he will fare in pure boxing where Paul Logan already two wins and training only in boxing, this is an entertaining fight Logan can punch but I don't know if he can hit Ben Askren who has good agility compared to those he faced in his previous fight, this is a good career build-up for both fighters Ben Askren, needs this win badly so he can get back mainstream.

[Botnake]

What is happening to the world of sports now? why do we have a lot of clown who try to ruined the reputation of the sport?

A youtuber fighting an ex MMA fighter, I don't like what I'm seeing anymore, sorry, but I feel like they are trying to make a circus in the sports just to make money. They use their popularity to influence their followers so they can get some money by supporting their fight. Unreal, the Logan brothers are really focus on boxing now than on their youtube channel.

The set up is now different, start making yourself popular in youtube so you can be a boxer. 

Sad but that's the reality here for now. Maybe promoters are favouring these fights because they need to raise money as they don't have assurance to generate money from the gate because of the pandemic crisis. So they are banking on the popularity of the fighters, and hoping that people will buy the PPV for the match. I hope this trend will not continue as we are missing a lot of great fighters in this generation.

It's now up to us if we will support this fight by buying the PPV, if fans will not support this kind of fight then promoters would stop doing this. Thing is, we have supported the previous fights of Jake Paul so they are now again doing it, if we keep doing that, they might fight more to make more money, it's very simple.

There's no law that preventing them from doing that, so we have to be open with this kind of entertainment as we can't stop them anyway.

Now, I'm interested to know the betting odds, Jake Paul still has a shot here since he is undefeated.

[FinneysTrueVision]

Ben Askren is known as a crypto supporter so many people in this forum might already be familiar with him from that. This fight seems like a joke. It is another freak show celebrity fight. Jake Paul is not the best boxer but he does have power and could do some serious damage on Askren. Jake should have enough boxing experience to win this fight.

[eaLiTy]

ESPN and Ariel Helwani just announced that Jake Paul will be fighting ex UFC/MMA fighter Ben Askren in eight round pro boxing match on April 17
I have no idea why Ben Askren would accept this match, because he was never known as a fighter with great boxing skills, and he was more known for his wrestling and grappling.

I have no idea what Ben Askren is trying to accomplish here as he never had a great stand up boxing, but he had great ground and pound as his game plan is all about taking the opponent down and smothering on the ground and he was successful throughout his career. When he came to the UFC his hip was messed up big time and after retirement he had some major surgery to rectify them and now he wanted to box  .

[acroman08]

ESPN and Ariel Helwani just announced that Jake Paul will be fighting ex UFC/MMA fighter Ben Askren in eight round pro boxing match on April 17
I have no idea why Ben Askren would accept this match, because he was never known as a fighter with great boxing skills, and he was more known for his wrestling and grappling.

Fight is organized by Triller, same company that was promoting latest Mike Tyson fight against Roy Jones Junior.

Ben Askren UFC record 19-2
Jake Paul boxing record 2-0

I feel like an air quote should be added when they said pro boxing match since the first fighter has had 2 fights and the other is an ex MMA fighter. it should never be called a pro boxing when one of the fighters is an amateur in boxing. that being said at least this fight will be a lot more interesting than a fight between a veteran boxer and an amateur boxer.

never knew jake paul already had boxing fights I thought he was still thinking about entering boxing.

[GreatArkansas]

What is happening to the world of sports now? why do we have a lot of clown who try to ruined the reputation of the sport?
A youtuber fighting an ex MMA fighter, I don't like what I'm seeing anymore, sorry, but I feel like they are trying to make a circus in the sports just to make money.
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Indeed. This is also I thought at first. I remember Conor Mcgregor when he fought Mayweather inside the boxing ring, purely entertainment and dramas. Equal to pure tons of money.

But if we only talk about this fight, I rather go for Jake Paul here inside the boxing ring against Askren, even Jake Paul got still few bouts. Atleast, Jake Paul already got experienced on boxing. 2-0 records for Jake Paul on starting his boxing career is already quite good.

[TravelMug]

What is happening to the world of sports now? why do we have a lot of clown who try to ruined the reputation of the sport?

Yeah, this is sort of ridiculous know, so called cross over boxer, now it's becoming a Youtube sensation vs any known boxer or MMA figther.

A youtuber fighting an ex MMA fighter, I don't like what I'm seeing anymore, sorry, but I feel like they are trying to make a circus in the sports just to make money. They use their popularity to influence their followers so they can get some money by supporting their fight. Unreal, the Logan brothers are really focus on boxing now than on their youtube channel.

Yea, not buying into this, this is really becoming a circus and a joke. They already making tons of money from YouTube and still engaging this kind of fights to a well known name in MMA (although Askren has no longer that hype).

The set up is now different, start making yourself popular in youtube so you can be a boxer.  

True, not going to support this fight regardless if this is an exhibition or not.

[Kemarit]

What is happening to the world of sports now? why do we have a lot of clown who try to ruined the reputation of the sport?
A youtuber fighting an ex MMA fighter, I don't like what I'm seeing anymore, sorry, but I feel like they are trying to make a circus in the sports just to make money.
(.....)

Indeed. This is also I thought at first. I remember Conor Mcgregor when he fought Mayweather inside the boxing ring, purely entertainment and dramas. Equal to pure tons of money.

Yes, we can attribute the bad effect to those two, however, this youtube influencer or sensation brought it to the next level of making money out of this contact sports (boxing, MMA).

But if we only talk about this fight, I rather go for Jake Paul here inside the boxing ring against Askren, even Jake Paul got still few bouts. Atleast, Jake Paul already got experienced on boxing. 2-0 records for Jake Paul on starting his boxing career is already quite good.

On paper 2-0 record is good for non boxing fighter. But we have to remember that Askren has the experienced in the ring, might be grappling but still he is going to be one hard nut to crack. Jake Paul knock outs a ex NBA player who obviously, didn't know about boxing and it is not his sport.

[Darker45]

This is what I've been talking about. I guess we will have to be looking forward to more of this kind of boxing matches in the future, and worse, classified under the professional category.

This is what happened to boxing because of several precedents which somehow got the interest of a lot of people, but probably lesser among avid boxing fans.

Triller's Tyson vs. Jones Jr. exhibition fight for the sake of charity was no problem to me. But then the kind of matches such as the one featuring the ex-NBA player Robinson vs. the Youtuber Paul, Mayweather vs. Conor, Mayweather vs. Tenshin, the upcoming Mayweather vs. Logan, and probably more of such kind in the future are of poor taste to me. I mean, if this is the type of boxing matches that will be promoted in the future primarily because the money is there, I don't know if the sport is still as interesting as before.

[STT]

Is this fight for charity? If yes, I'll support it. If not, I hope nobody buys tickets/PPVs.

The charity is Jake Paul so in a way yes, if you feeling generous then feel free.   If you want to watch serious boxing then skip but this is about memes and general interest from a section of viewers who wouldnt even watch boxing normally I think.   If they can get the views and justify the show then I'm not surprised its a reoccuring theme.

I recommend you dont watch this video as its mostly nonsense but related; I never went looking to find this, literally the publicity for this fight came to me and its appeared on my feed (Im not a subscriber or fan of any of them).  So the build up and sales for this already began, I'd guess its going to make money for people organising it  : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkhsFGswWNA&feature=emb_title

3,431,319 views•Jan 24, 2021

[babygun]

Is this fight for charity? If yes, I'll support it. If not, I hope nobody buys tickets/PPVs.

The charity is Jake Paul so in a way yes, if you feeling generous then feel free.   If you want to watch serious boxing then skip but this is about memes and general interest from a section of viewers who wouldnt even watch boxing normally I think.   If they can get the views and justify the show then I'm not surprised its a reoccuring theme.

I recommend you dont watch this video as its mostly nonsense but related; I never went looking to find this, literally the publicity for this fight came to me and its appeared on my feed (Im not a subscriber or fan of any of them).  So the build up and sales for this already began, I'd guess its going to make money for people organising it  : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkhsFGswWNA&feature=emb_title

3,431,319 views•Jan 24, 2021

This is another stupid match that I don't want to see, but apparently gets a lot of interest. Nobody would have ever been interested in Jake Paul if his brother was not Logan Paul.
 Also Ben Askren doesn't really ring a bell to me, guess he is not famous enoug lol  .

[Yogee]

....I think Ben Askren could win the fight with his toughness, durability, aggressiveness and pace.

Jake Paul can use all that Askren toughness by making his face a human punching bag. He's got a good jab and a good trainer in Shane.

Ben can close the distance for sure but I doubt he can land a solid punch. He is also getting older and he doesn't have the same tough chin like he used to as a younger fighter.

[electronicash]

it started with Mcgregor now everybody is crossing already. i guess it must be tough for Askren after the terrible loss with just a few seconds lol. but he must have thought seriously about it and after all, he won't be hit by a flying knee in the sports of boxing. boxing isn't easy at all boxing gloves are heavy and for a first-timer, 8 rounds must be exhausting.

how much is he going to profit from this fight?

[cryptomaniac_xxx]

Ben Askren needs this win after that knock out loss against Masvidal and he must win convincingly and in a good fashion to increase his value, that two losses is huge to pull down his career and this win although not enough to get his former aura back but at least he is back in his fighting form if he wins convincingly both fighters needs this win and I hope they give us a good fight.

Nah, he is finished with his UFC career, to be able to get back, he should fight UFC fighters and not this so called youtube sensation. And this is very wrong for him, yes that lost against Masvidal is brutal, but he can't get his former aura if he chooses to make a come back fight against a non UFC. This is a circus fight as other guys have been saying.