Poor Ben Askren!
The grappler and UFC fighter prepared for months for last night’s UFC 239 event, only to be knocked out by fellow fighter Jorge Masvidal just FIVE SECONDS into the bout! Dude, seriously?!
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Masvidal (pictured above, at the post-fight press conference last night) saw an opening very early on after both fighters tapped hands to begin the bout, and he didn’t waste it. The title of this post isn’t an exaggeration, either; literally FIVE SECONDS into the bout, Masvidal had KO’d Askren and the evening was over.
Seriously, watch it happen in real-time (below) — it’s both really violent and absolutely ridiculous:
Jorge Masvidal obliterates Ben Askren for the fastest knockout in UFC HISTORY! ???? #UFC239 https://t.co/wv6sCpsMKG
— CATCHWEIGHT™️ (@catchweightpod) July 7, 2019
WOW!!!! The fastest knockout in UFC history… who knew it was even possible to do it THAT quickly?!
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But even better than the (shocking but underwhelming) fight itself was Askren’s entirely too-true reaction to it on Twitter just hours later! The poor shell-shocked grappler wrote what we were all pretty much thinking in his first post-fight tweet (below), and it quickly went viral as people began picking up on it:
Well that sucked
— Funky (@Benaskren) July 7, 2019
LOLz!! The ultimate self-own at the worst time. We can say this both figuratively AND literally… OUCH!!!
But hey, at least he’s being true to himself and the situation here. No point in lying, or laying low, or acting like you didn’t just get knocked out in five seconds, right?! Honesty really is the best policy!!!
Predictably, fans and followers on social media proceeded to have a little fun with the poor guy, too (below):
Keep your head up, man.
Both figuratively and literally.— WalKom (@wal_kom) July 7, 2019
https://twitter.com/RamLover69/status/1147756254166577152
https://twitter.com/Anees1024/status/1147750568116408320
how do you tell someone they kneed to face retirement? i'm askren for a friend
— RickyLahey™ (@BlyatSukaa) July 7, 2019
https://twitter.com/Ulises3214/status/1147751164492025857
DAWG I THOUGHT YOU DIED
— Wipz (@Wipz) July 7, 2019
Are you tweeting from the afterlife?
— LM ♟️ (@lm4989) July 7, 2019
https://twitter.com/BoxingNbt/status/1147761377857028096
Yikes!!! So much sarcasm… poor Askren!!!
And it wasn’t just fans who had a lot to say after the fight, either… Masvidal himself was pretty harsh when asked about it in the post-fight press conference later at UFC last night, as you can see in this video clip from the question-and-answer session with the media (below):
Knock a dude out cold and then talk trash about him afterwards… well then! Granted, these two fighters had apparently really talked up last night’s bouts in the previous weeks and months to promote it, so no doubt there was probably some bad blood between these two, but still… pretty brutal!!!
What do U think about this crazy five-second knockout, Perezcious readers?! Have you ever seen anything like this before?? Sound OFF about all of this and more down in the comment section (below)! The UFC is absolutely insane… and we’re not even sure if it’s in a good way! Yikes…
[Image via YouTube]