If I see Ben Askren, nothing makes me click faster. I love his interviews

16:59 Masvidal ko

Ben , thanks for all you do for young wrestlers.

Askren's approach to his loss had a profound impact on me when I first started getting into MMA. Not attaching your ego to the outcome is such a common sense approach that I love so much.

These two need a show! Truly god bless both of em🎉🦾🫘

I always get inspired by the way Askren carries himself. Great person, true champion

I'm in my second cancer fight, and I am taking inspiration from Ben.

Ben is one of maybe 10 mma fighters that I can't click fast enough to watch when I see a new vid on my feed. He's the MMA of interviewees, genuine, knowledgeable, personable and funny, great talkdown defence . Got it all. 👍

Ben, I enjoyed your run a lot, super entertaining on the mic and gave us some great fights.

Ben is one of my favorite athletes. Not because of his record or achievements but because of interviews like this. He's real. He's a genuine and grounded dude. I'll be getting the book Ben!

Word lookin forward to getting his book

Great interview and Ben being a coach for younger athletes is very admirable. Thanks to you both.

Great interview, Ben is an interesting guy. I’ll definitely give the book a read.

It’s cool to see Ben being himself and honest not just the crap talker promoting his fights. Only the Heelwani could bring that out in people. Fighters especially. Much love 🤘🏻

I love it when Ariel catches the guy he's interviewing not paying attention 6:00. "What's going on? What are you doing?" Same thing with Paulo after his fight

I have been a fan since the trade. Ben is one of those all around great guys that sets and example for all on how to live life the way it should be lived and not stress about the small stuff! Love him on podcast too

Love you two together. Add DC and that would be a super funny show as well as incredible real knowledge. Love you funky!

Askren vs Masvidal 2 would be fun, and he should try to get the rematch...

Gotta Admit Ben Akren probably the best most interesting interview in the MMA community. The guy is genuine and comes of 100% authentic.

Run it back!!! Askren would definitely run through masvidal

Great interview!

We love you Benjamin

Ben is a class act!

no fighter ever handled losses as well as this guy

Ben. You. Are. Awesome. Thankyou for being a strong image in our youths perception, you survived a knee to the face on live tv going viral then losing to Jake Paul, and you are still alive let alone showing your face on the internet with class, you are an inspiration to anyone who's ever had a loss, you are a butterfly effect that will save lives and make us as a people tougher. Thankyou :)

Love this. Ben has gotta be one of my favorite mma personalities. It seems like he put it on without deviating from himself too much.

Wish we got to see prime Askren in UFC

Ben’s great! And true fight fans appreciate how tremendous a competitor he is and how dominant he was. I enjoy Ariel’s interviews but parts of this made me laugh. The way Ariel was bringing up “doesn’t it bother you that…” over and over again reminded me of an episode of Seinfeld where George kept asking this old man he was having lunch with if he thinks about death.. and how the average lifespan is 72 😂

Let’s be honest. The rematch…Askren destroys Jorge.

id like to meet askren. he cracks me Up

win or learn...well done Ben

17:00 for start of Masvidal KO

Your voice is amazing.

Ben is the man. Love his attitude!

Love funky ben !

Ariel says all the time that he doesn’t like to ask fighters to come on his show after a ko loss and yet he asks every fighter to come on his show after a ko loss and then has to explain to them and everyone else that he doesn’t like to ask people to come on his show after a ko loss lol

15:01 this man is a time traveler from the year 22,009

Really want a Helwani/Askren/DC/Bisping roundtable

The kids who get him as a coach got the best.

We love you Bernhard

No one ever took a loss like that better than Askren

Great interview. Ben was the most exciting ground fighter I have seen till this day. The way he moved was so weird and dominant. He never stalled or fkd around. I was always captivated by his fights. Casuals believed he was boring because of the comment section. Instead of actually seeing his fights. I'd like the haters to actually tell me which fight did he stall in or was boring?

His advice is legit. Don't be afraid of failure, go try to talk to a bunch of different girls, don't invest too much of your emotion into any of it, just talk to some, you can tell if one likes you by how interested they are in talking to you. However if you never talk to anyone because you are too scared, you will never even find any of these ones that will like you. Heck I was worse than Askren when he was a teen, I literally was so low in self belief I had girls literally coming up to me trying to talk to me and I still convinced myself that no one liked me, because when I was young I inherited my mother's weird victim complex, like a martyr complex thing, it wasn't until I left home that I became more normal and came to my senses. Yeah, a lot of people I think have a bad mentality because of bad influence, but you need to stop being influenced and reset your brain kind of, then just go and try to talk to people in the world, you will find a lot of decent people who are compatible with you, whether it be friends or romance etc.

Ben's cool man. He got alot of hate yada yadda.....and prob rightfully so. But dudes a beast. Always has been.

I still love and respect the funky one

This interview is funny as hell lol

He finally remembered. Crazy.

Thank you for bringing up the revisionist history Ariel. Funky is a top 5 all time non UFC fighter and people forget that.

the Funky Nose - we need a show w these two haha wkly

29:00 Jorge is not ungrateful, he simply doesn't understand why Ben provoked him relentlessly to get and hype up the fight... Very different IQ lvls. Of course it backfired on Ben due to how the fight went down but Ben basically gave Jorge a chance to catch lightning in a bottle and he did.

Dude talked for 40 minutes but leave it to Helwani to come up with the most clickbait title

Ben: “Im looking at Jorge. I’m getting ready to fight and yeah…boom…(I got ko’d) Ariel: “Yeah. Amazing.” 🤦🏽‍♂️

One of the greatest MMA fighters of all time. Excellent, excellent wrestling. Phenomenal wrestler. Nobody can take that away from Ben. I wish I even had his career record.

Gotta love Rictus Mortis Ben

Ahahahah Heelwani shut him down on the business typin’ hahah. Ariel is the man . That’s proves it !

Ben you’re forgetting khazmat has been bouncing around weight classes on top of being out sick for a year that’s why he hasn’t had a title shot yet

I like Ben🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

ben askren aged 10 years since masvidal

Ben Askren is the #1 welterweight ever. Wish they`d let him rematch Jorge...

Epic wrestling is how it done

Ben gets me amped to be my best me.

The only guy that's been to Mars twice in 3 years 😂

Ben and I have the same birthday. He still hasn't gotten me a gift yet, though

Damn Ben Askren looks like he aged a lot in such a short period

Ben is the most entertaining nerd out there. He wasted his career a bit as he could have been a big star in the UFC if he came in after GSP retired.

ASKREN VS MASVIDAL 2. BOOK IT!

I'm not a wrestling fan but I'm a Ben Askern fan

I really like retired Ben Askren. He is a smart and pragmatic dude.

10-7 aerial on the Afro 🙏🏽 lol

Ben, your follow up book should be called Funny You Should Askren. And listen, that’s a freebie from me to you. But, if the book sells well… 😉

Usman didnt demand anything, he just said He is open to fight in England. Pointless take on that, Helwani.

looking back on it, Bens career is quite remarkable. Dude never figured out how to strike yet he won most of his fights. As an MMA fanatic for the last 20 years, my respects good sir.

40:19 the mojahed laugh

Ben been sparring, got a couple of black eyes, nose slightly swollen and prepping for masvidal 2

Years after the KO I still wonder, what would Jorge be without that flying knee to Askrens dome?

The only thing i don't like about Dana... He hold grudge on many people.... C'mon Dana. You should be the man of the people. You gonna live longer. Apologize to Ariel and giv him a spot in the UFC. He's done alot for ufc too. Those old interviews. Nothing like that again

I would read Askren's book if I read books in the first place

Jeez man, its been years. You can stop with the masvidal KO in the video title.

He finally remembered his first thought?

He looks and sounds like Marc Cubans brother

Even the ghost writer of Bens book doesn’t want to be associated with Ben

Ben Askren couldn't do a pull up his first year of college or climb the rope...his record as a redshirt was average, maybe 14-10...He then created his own style do make up for his lack of strength/explosiveness....4x NCAA finalist... Guy is smart & knows how to win. Period.

No hero timestamped when the clickbait title is :(

34:00 it was because JOE SILVA did not want Askren. At the same time he was threatening to cut Khabib because his style was “too boring”

I wish Ben was my dad

35:00 NO it was because JOE SILVA did not want Askren. At the same time he was threatening to cut Khabib because his style was “too boring”

Boom!!!! Roasted!!!

whoah

I think you are

You think they valentina

Remember when Askren would get vids to near 600-800k? Now dude barely scratches 70k kinda sad

Ben would thrash Jorge if he got a second chance, thug Jorge was just lucky same as Aldo & mgregor

Foul headline

Man makes a whole living tslking about getting koed by masvidal

great title

That guy was never a fighter, he was a wrestler who got his ass annihilated by a journeyman

I put $200 on a Jake Paul first round knock out back when they boxed. No better feeling than seeing him hit the canvas! $$

Wow he aged

Ben I'd say Masvidal made you . If casual's are the audience then your viral knockout is your career highlight . Really enjoy your persona but you also said if you met a Paul brother in a back lane it would be murder and again you lost miserably !

Jake Paul’s son woke up