Bellator ready to deal Ben Askren

[Mad Good Dro]

"I don't think we're going to make an offer at this point," Bjorn Rebney, Bellator MMA chairman and CEO, told ESPN.com. "So I don't see any reason to make anybody sit out.

UFC president Dana White confirmed his interest in speaking with Ben Askren.
"If Ben's going to go to the UFC, we should speed up that process so he can go fight. I'd love to see Ben versus GSP," Rebney added, referring to Georges St-Pierre.

UFC president Dana White confirmed his interest in speaking with Askren, a member of the 2008 U.S. men's Olympic freestyle wrestling team before entering MMA the next year.

Due in large part to his suffocating "funky" wrestling style honed at the University of Missouri, Askren, 29, hasn't faced much trouble through 12 pro contests. The last one on July 31, Askren's ninth with Bellator, brought about a thumping of Russian Andrey Koreshkov, and kicked off the champion's apparently not-so-restricted free agency.

http://espn.go.com/mma/story/_/id/9587583/bellator-ready-deal-welterweight-ben-askren-ufc?src=mobile

 

[The Infamous]

If only we could get chandler or Alvarez or curran in the ufc, couldn't care less about askren.

 

[TheNatureBoy]

If only we could get chandler or Alvarez or curran in the ufc, couldn't care less about askren.

Alvarez is a possibility. Chandler and I believe Curran as well have signed long term deals with the promotion.

 

[The Infamous]

Alvarez is a possibility. Chandler and I believe Curran as well have signed long term deals with the promotion.

Damnnnn breh I heard, I really want to see chandler vs the top ufc LWs. He has championship potential.

 

[TheNatureBoy]

Damnnnn breh I heard, I really want to see chandler vs the top ufc LWs. He has championship potential.

Me too. A shame that the UFC has all of the top LW's on lock. At least Curran has a lot of quality FW's to fight.

 

[Change]

They'll force Askren to sit a year. He has a year matching clause. He'll have to sit a year just based on principle because of shytty the Bellator contract is. He won't negotiate because he'll get fukked if he tries. That's what happened to Eddie.

He'll have to sit out a year of his prime due to the scum bag nature of the contract.

 

[Willy Waffle]

They'll force Askren to sit a year. He has a year matching clause. He'll have to sit a year just based on principle because of shytty the Bellator contract is. He won't negotiate because he'll get fukked if he tries. That's what happened to Eddie.

He'll have to sit out a year of his prime due to the scum bag nature of the contract.

i can't see this going the alvarez route. helluva fighter askren is but he's not the most entertaining fighter out there by danas standards. bellator can match any offer given to askren, i think bellator will try to drive up the price for ufc to sign askren, but to the ufc, is askren really worth big time money? i don't think so.

 

[Change]

... but to the ufc, is askren really worth big time money? i don't think so.

That's the whole point. Askren won't take a risk to find out. He'd be crazy to take a formal offer. He'll have to sit for one year just avoid the situation.

 

[The G.O.D II]

Outside of a fight with GSP( and even that is ) I dont see any upside of Dana signing Askren. He is the prototypical fighter that Dana always bytches about on twitter, post media scrums, etc

 

[Roman Brady]

Wasnt he and dana in some tweeter feud a while ago? the ufc arent interested in askren, they are just trying to fukk with bellator.And in return bellator are trying to act like askren is just another 1 of their guys. They know the way their contracts are constructed, nobody pulls a lombard unless they allow for it