Comments Thread For: Jake Paul Blasts Out Ben Askren in One Round

[Liondw]

I did check youtube to check this "fight" so that I know what to comment on. Ok, Paul knows a few basics, but Askren can't box at all, even though he was a good wrestler in mma.

I doubt that Michael Buffer or Al Bernstein were embarassed to be involved in this as long as they're getting well paid.

It might not even be embarassing for a world class boxer like Prograis to have been on the card; because if the event was viewed by many, it's exposure, no matter how ridiculous.

[Dakuwaqa]

MMA fighters are usually awful strikers. That’s the problem with MMA you get a matchup with two good wrestlers and what you end up with is a piss poor kickboxing fight.

[rudy]

Starting to think all Bens fight in MMA was fixed, he has been competing long enough to expose this fool, great matchmaking he might get a top ten ranking due to his popularity and record 3 fights 3 kos looks good. Lawrence Okolie you have a ready made challenger

[Liondw]

To be honest, some of us that train at home and in the boxing gym casually for years, would knockout Askren.

[Rapscallion]

Given what Askren brought to the match, it took Paul longer than it should have to knock him down. Paul needs a great deal of work if he intends to box any real pro. If nothing else, I can't believe how stiff he was against Askren -- as if he perceived that Askren was dangerous -- when from the get go it was clear that Askren hadn't a clue. This fight should have lasted forty seconds at the most.

[Eff Pandas]

The only bright side of this debacle is this probably kills any future Triller events after all the goodwill they received for the Tyson vs Jones PPV.

The Triller boxing guy was on Mannix's podcast the other day saying this card was trending similar to Tyson vs RJJ. I'd be surprised if it beat that fight, but I wouldn't be surprised if it did over a million buys.

And if it did a million+ buys I don't think we've seen the last Triller event.

In fact I know we ain't seen the last one cuz the next one is already booked with Teo main eventing & Real Deal as the co-main on June 5. Plus if ODLH didn't legit get sent to rehab after last night he's supposed to fight on July 3 vs a yet to be named MMA guy. Was talks of it being Eddie Alvarez.

[Eff Pandas]

Starting to think all Bens fight in MMA was fixed, he has been competing long enough to expose this fool, great matchmaking he might get a top ten ranking due to his popularity and record 3 fights 3 kos looks good. Lawrence Okolie you have a ready made challenger

I don't think you've seen Ben box before. Anyone who's seen Ben box has been saying this fight wasn't going to end well for him.

And if Ben coulda wrestled Jake, Jake woulda gotten fooked up last night. Ben not being able to wrestle takes away his whole approach to fighting.

[Onehunglo]

Evander used to be cruiserweight ... take on for your Ppv.. fool

[Eff Pandas]

MMA fighters are usually awful strikers.

It's different bruh. A boxer trying to take a boxers approach to striking in a MMA fight is gonna be a sitting duck to so many other forms of attacks. A MMA guy isn't training to strike like a boxer for that reason. It'd be a hindrance to his success in the cage to have Floyd caliber skills in there.

And the funniest thing about last night that maybe proves that is that Mir was getting KO'd left n right with his standup in MMA cuz it was no good there, but oddly in the ring he went the distance cuz he could grind it out better without having to worry about other types of attacks that could be coming at him in the cage while boxing. Maybe Mir's boxing ain't THAT bad as fooked up as that sounds to say outloud lol. It definitely didn't help him in the cage vs also ran guys who KO'd him, but got him the distance vs a ex-boxing title holder.

[Eff Pandas]

Greatest PPV ever. Im not even mad that this made a complete mockery out of boxing lmao......all these networks, promoters, managers, and even fighters have been taking turns ****ing us (the fans) over for years...... so I have no problem with outsiders coming in and doing the same.

Agree 100%.

I'm ALWAYS pro new guys coming into the sport & trying different sh^t or doing their own thing cuz it's not like the people running so called "real boxing" have an ounce of respect & integrity for the sport & I'd love for their power to get more diluted than it already is.

That allows more opportunity for people with respect & integrity to get into the sport at a future date & put boxing first over everything else like all these other better represented sports do for their own sports much better than boxing people do for boxing.