BAD MMA - The origins of combat™ » National Champion https://www.badmma.com The BADDEST Brand on the Planet™ Fri, 24 Jul 2026 06:38:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 USA TODAY: Chandler on why he’s quick to defend fellow Bellator champ Askren https://www.badmma.com/usa-today-chandler-on-why-hes-quick-to-defend-fellow-bellator-champ-askren.html https://www.badmma.com/usa-today-chandler-on-why-hes-quick-to-defend-fellow-bellator-champ-askren.html#comments Wed, 31 Jul 2013 16:00:00 +0000 BAD MMA News http://www.badmma.com/usa-today-chandler-on-why-hes-quick-to-defend-fellow-bellator-champ-askren.html (This story initially appeared on usatoday.com .) Ben Askren isn’t the type to sugarcoat his opinions. Ask him what he thought of fellow Bellator MMA champion Michael Chandler when he first encountered him on the University of Missouri wrestling team in 2004, and he’ll give it to you straight. “In the beginning, he really wasn’t very good,” Askren (11-0 MMA, 8-0 BMMA), a two-time NCAA Division I national champion who now reigns as Bellator’s undefeated welterweight champ, tells USA TODAY Sports and MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com). Lightweight champion Chandler (11-0 MMA, 8-0 BMMA) doesn’t disagree.

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]]> https://www.badmma.com/usa-today-chandler-on-why-hes-quick-to-defend-fellow-bellator-champ-askren.html/feed 0 Bellator Champ Ben Askren Plans to Take Out Frustrating Schedule on Andrey Koreshkov https://www.badmma.com/bellator-champ-ben-askren-plans-to-take-out-frustrating-schedule-on-andrey-koreshkov.html https://www.badmma.com/bellator-champ-ben-askren-plans-to-take-out-frustrating-schedule-on-andrey-koreshkov.html#comments Wed, 31 Jul 2013 01:49:06 +0000 BAD MMA News http://www.badmma.com/bellator-champ-ben-askren-plans-to-take-out-frustrating-schedule-on-andrey-koreshkov.html There is only one 170-pound mixed martial artist outside of the UFC that is turning heads. His name is Ben Askren , undefeated Bellator welterweight champion. And he is preparing to put his belt on the line for the fourth time when he steps in the cage with Andrey Koreshkov on Wednesday. Askren is currently undefeated at 11-0, and in many pundits’ eyes, he is the next prospect to step out from the shadow of divisional kingpin and UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre. With wins over MMA veterans like Jay Hieron, Nick Thompson, Douglas Lima and Lyman Good (Hieron, Good and Thompson being former champions of other mid-major promotions), Askren has proven that – despite only being in the sport for four years – this 29-year-old isn’t intimidated by any perceived lack of experience. Oddly, being a two-time Division-I NCAA National Champion at Missouri and former Olympian in the sport of wrestling, Askren is rarely mentioned in the same vein as some of his more well known contemporaries in MMA. It’s something the former “Mizzou Tiger” doesn’t mind at all. “Most people are just ignorant about the sport,” Askren told MMAweekly.com .  “I’ve trained with the best

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