Bloody Elbow · Jul 9, 2019
Ben Askren accepts KO loss: ‘There’s nothing I can do to change it’
Photo by Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images Ben Askren saw Jorge Masvidal’s early blitz coming — but “Gamebred” simply executed it to a tee.
Askren, who lost to Masvidal via five-second knockout on the UFC 239 main card on Saturday in Las Vegas, said Monday he has always wondered how someone could get flying kneed, because they usually come from far away — but then it happened to himself.
“I had an incline he was going to try something right away,” Askren told Ariel Helwani’s MMA Show. ... “I don’t like Jorge, but that was a damn good flying knee. He got some serious air time on it and obviously connected in the right spot.