You can say oh well, he got paid. You can say he had his hip replacement and that he’s 36 (not that old). You can say he’s happy to have the money, etc. You can say whatever, but Jesus man. That was brutal and embarrassing in such a way that it made my stomach turn. Money isn’t worth that shit. What about his kids and the kids he coaches at his academies? He had absolutely no business in there and has thoroughly disgraced his legacy at this point. Remember back to before his UFC run when he got embarrassed by Jordan Burroughs in a wrestling match? Then embarrassed by Masvidal, then embarrassed by Maia, really…the lead up was all about grappling and how he was superior, and he got choked unconscious. I didn’t mention Lawler because Ben technically won and I used to defend that win, but now? But this. This was different. This was ugly and had the feel of a seedy strip club parking lot fight where the old legend gets knocked on his ass by some loudmouth nobody. The slow-mo replay of it, silently looping, pixelated and over exposed. Punch over the top, head snaps back, crashes to the canvas. If you think this fight was fixed, you’re lying to yourself. You can’t pretend to go down like that. The worst part? It was a proper stoppage. Unless you wanted to see Ben Askren unconscious on the ground in front of his wife. I, for one, did not care to see it and it surely would have happened had the fight continued. Goodbye respect, goodbye legacy, goodbye what you worked for your entire life. For 500k. Make no mistake, he will never, ever live this embarrassment down. It makes me sick to see that retard towering over a toppled Olympian thinking that he’s some great icon. Keep the 500 thousand if it were me.