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Jake Paul Knocks Out Ben Askren... Who Cares?

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  I used to defend Jake Paul; when he fought Nate Robinson, people didn't realize that Paul was training consistently and was taking boxing relatively seriously. Nate Robinson, on the other hand, did literally no preparation and expected to be able to walk into the ring and knockout Paul because... he's on YouTube? The end result, of course, was Nate Robinson laying unconscious on the campus with Paul celebrating. Have we heard from Nate since, by the way? What's he up to? When they announced Paul's next opponent was Ben Askren, it felt ridiculous right off the bat. The one thing that Ben can do well is talk trash; there is no doubt his inclusion caused a bit more buzz than usual. However, off the rip, it was blatant was what going on. Askren, albeit a MMA fighter, is known as having one of the worst stand up games in all of the sport, even when he was a champion in ONE and Bellator. He dominated his opponents with his wrestling; he is an Olympian and a two time NCAA na
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UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. Gastelum (4/17/2021) Main Event Reaction & Analysis

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  Taopology Event Page:  https://www.tapology.com/fightcenter/events/76103-ufc-fight-night A long overdue matchup finally played out last night; Robert Whittaker and Kelvin Gastelum, which had been scheduled for UFC 234 on February 10th of 2019, was canceled the morning of due to a medical emergency from then Middleweight Champion. Whittaker and Gastelum would go their separate ways, with Whittaker and Gastelum both eventually losing to current champion, Israel Adesanya. Whittaker took an extended break, coming back in the second half of 2020 to score victories of Darren Till and Jared Cannonier. In my opinion, there was little doubt, even before this fight, that Whittaker deserved another championship opportunity. Gastelum, on the other hand, had just gotten back into the win column with a win over Ian Heinisch. Gastelum lost a split decision to Till and lost via submission to Jack Hermansson previous to the Heinisch fight, so it was undoubtably a big one for his standing in the Middl
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