Former One Championship Welterweight Champion Ben Askren retired i🅺n 2017 after defending the gold against Shinya Aoki.
Askren would return to action for a bout against forme꧙r UFC Welterweight Champion Georges St. Pierre, a bout he believes will happen sometime 🗹next year.
“My main motivation is to prove I’m No. 1 in the world,” Askren said to . “I think it will happen, at the Bell Centre (in Montreal). Me vs. ‘GSP,’ probably somewhere in late 2019. I don’t need to make any more money from fighting, and there’s only one thing left to prove. I’ve been No. 1 for the past five years, and I’ve unfortunately never had the chance to prove that fight. It’s the one thing that interests me.”
GSP just returned to action himself after a four-plus year layoff at UFC 217, deꦰfeating Michael Bisping to win the UFC Midd♉leweight Title.
St. Pierre is u♏nder contract to the UFC at the moment and Askren doesn’t exactly have the 🍌best relationship with that promotion.
“(My first UFC negotiation) was so dirty, it left such a bad taste in my mouth,” Askren said. “I already didn’t want to talk to Dana. I don’t trust a damn word that comes out of his mouth. I don’t trust a word. It’s like, why did I never pursue that again? Well, it’s because the first time I got screwed over – it was just about as dirty a deal as anyone could give you. I don’t want to have that discussion again. I don’t trust them one bit.”
The longtime UFC fighter💯 is currently on the shelf battling ulceraಌtive colitis and it is unknown🌊 just when he may return to action.
