Episode 1447
Ben Askren
Mon, 2021-Apr-19 01:21 UTC
Length - 1:57
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With 479,430 views on Sunday, 18 April 2021 our article of the day is Ben Askren.
Benjamin Michael Askren (born July 18, 1984) is an American retired professional mixed martial artist and amateur wrestler. Askren was the former Bellator and ONE Welterweight Champion before competing in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC).
An accomplished grappler, he was the 2008 US Olympic Team Member and National champion and the 2005 Pan American champion in freestyle wrestling, a two–time NCAA Division I national champion (four–time finalist), and two–time Big 12 Conference champion (four–time finalist) for the Missouri Tigers, and was the second wrestler to secure multiple Dan Hodge Trophies (the wrestling equivalent of the Heisman Trophy) in folkstyle wrestling. He was also a world champion in submission wrestling.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 01:21 UTC on Monday, 19 April 2021.
For the full current version of the article, see Ben Askren on Wikipedia.
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