4/17 Triller: Jake Paul vs Ben Askren

[GzUp]

He doesn’t look good here at all, thislooks horrible for someone entertaining a professional boxing

He looks good

 

[patscorpio]

It would take a brave man to bet on this fight. On paper, Askren is by far the more accomplished fighter, and it's not even close.

At the same time, he's venturing into a new discipline where the opposite fighter has more experience than him. Will Ben's combat experience put him in good stead and make up for his lack of boxing experience? It's an interesting scenario.

This is my take; let's put his fight against Jorge aside, Ben is one of the most durable fighters in mma. If you watched the Lawler fight, you'd know that. He was literally slammed on his head, punched in the face several times while semi-conscious and still managed to pull out a win. His fighting style was basically to forego any type of reactive defense and just grab his opponent and wear them down. He would do this incessantly and put constant pressure on his opponent, relying on his resilience and chin to get into clinches. That may work in mma, but if you get a boxer with good footwork, he will simply get lit up.

I know it's just training, but what I'm seeing from these videos is not encouraging. Ben doesn't have his hands up to protect his chin, which is basically there floating in the air. He seems too stuck in his mma fighting style. Any boxer with decent footwork and lateral movement will beat this guy badly. But is Jake Paul really that boxer? Sure, he's looked good against a basketball player and YouTubers; but how will he fair against someone who is used to getting punched in the face for a living?

The first few moments will tell the story of the fight. Ben will try to put pressure on Jake and try go get his back on the ropes. He will try to make it an attrition based fight and simply dirty box his way to a win. If Jake can use good lateral movement and circle out, he will have Ben Askren chasing him. He can stick, move, and stick Ben from the outside. If he learns how to use Askren's constant pressure against him, he can probably stop him later on in the fight. The key is how he manages the pressure and for Ben, how he reacts to getting punched constantly.

like this breakdown..catch rep...me im just tuning in for the fukkery

 

[patscorpio]

 

[patscorpio]

 

[Splash]

 

[The axe murderer]

what a shytshow this fight will be​

 

[Liu Kang]

He looks good

Pad work kinda make everybody look good

Yeah he just doesnt instinctively punch properly and will not have any time to drill it deeper in his head. He may look good on the pads but once he is in the ring, he reverts to how he punches usually.

 

[Splash]

He didn't even look good on the pads, what are you guys seeing?

 

[Master Teacher]

Askren was just a wrestler who decided to do MMA because he was broke

How is he any different than Jake Paul, he wrestled in high school, wasn't an elite like askren but he comes from the same background, only he started training boxing instead of mma.

Rampage Jackson was a high school wrestling, and he never lost because somebody taking him down, only Jon Jones really controlled him like that and the only one to submit him to

So Jake Paul could've hopped into MMA instead of boxing and possible be at the same progress as a fighter

Askren taking this fight because its his biggest pay day, why not, he never made shyt doing MMA, he doesn't give a fukk if he loses or wins

The man as a bad hip, people wanna discredit him because he didn't really do shyt in UFC, but he was already old then and wear of tear of athletics will take their effect

So Askren is an old guy who can't fight with his hands, with a bad hip

Going against a younger more athletic bigger guy who's way mroe advance than him at boxing, what do people think is going to happen

just like nate robinson was setup, to make jake paul a name, this shyt is one big ass scam to get bread

and I'm not made at it

People submitted to the casuals and made the sport about "mega fights" and "spectacle" shyt gotta be an event like it's Black Bike week or some shyt in order for a fight to be good or deserved to watch on a national level

it's ridiculous, but I'm glad they are taking advantage of these foolls, Thriller might end up owning the UFC, because these celebritu fights garnering more money and more pay than UFC PPVS can bring in

and yes Tyson and Roy Jones was a celebrity fight, because they are celebrities now, not boxing contenders

 

[patscorpio]

Frank Mir: Steve Cunningham Fight Is Most Difficult Boxing Debut, He's Tougher Than Tarver

BY MANOUK AKOPYAN
Published Wed Apr 14, 2021, 10:24 AM EDT


Frank Mir is no stranger to the fight game.

The former UFC heavyweight champion has fought 32 times as a mixed martial artist and racked up 19 wins.

The forty-one-year-old will be looking for a new kind of victory when he makes his professional boxing debut against Steve Cunningham on April 17 on Triller pay per view as one of the supporting bouts on the Jake Paul vs. Ben Askren card.

The former two-time cruiserweight champion Cunningham (29-9-1, 13 KOs) is a replacement opponent stepping in for the 51-year-old Antonio Tarver.

“The one thing that hasn’t changed, it was always going to be a challenge,” said Mir. “It was going to be something I knew was going to bring the best out of me. Tarver, and I’m not taking away from Cunningham’s boxing skills, Tarver relies more on being cunning, trying to get points for the judges, tying up, landing from distance. Their fight together, Cunningham was trying to make it a fight and Tarver slowed it down and made it very close to eek out the split decision, or the draw. Cunningham is a much tougher guy.”

The 44-year-old Cunningham has fought professionally for 17 years but not since 2017. The Philly fighter is 1-3-1 in his last five fights. He came away with a split draw versus Tarver in 2015.

“I’m not going to have that advantage in age that I thought I was going to have over Tarver,” said Mir. “I knew Tarver probably wasn’t going to come in the best shape. As far as boxing IQ, Cunningham is better than I, but Tarver has even more.”

Mir entertained offers from the Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship in September but never fought for the league.

In his MMA career, he has nine wins via submission and four via decision. He came away victorious in the Bellator cage in 2019 for his last fight against Roy Nelson. It stopped a four-fight losing streak.

Mir has scored just five knockouts in his MMA career. If Cunningham has any KO power left, it could prove to be Mir’s kryptonite. Of the Las Vegas-based fighter’s 13 MMA losses, 10 have come via knockout.

Mir will be the heavier fighter come fight night. He said he’ll weigh in the neighborhood of 270 pounds. Cunningham said he’ll tip the scales near 210 pounds. Both fighters stand at 6-feet-3.

“I’m making my debut in the boxing discipline and I’m facing someone who is a former champ,” said Mir. “As far as debuts go for guys going into boxing, this is probably one of the most difficult ones. Obviously I was a professional in MMA I have experience, but this is a new animal all together, so going out there and obviously being victorious is phenomenal, but going out there and being proficient and having a good showing and a good representation of what mixed martial arts are able to do in boxing, is also a victory.”

 

[The axe murderer]

 

[Standing on business]

Damn Ivan tired out after 2 minutes of pad work

 

[patscorpio]

Damn Ivan tired out after 2 minutes of pad work

he really did...i hope theres a reason like he worked out off camera earlier before this...he's the pro...shyt should be like clockwork to him

 

[patscorpio]

this live workout is comedy so far...only prograis looked good so far doing it

mir and askren...looked struggle...and so did redkach breathing hard and shyt

fournier looks decent enough but not really impressed by his

need to see paul, USS, and the reggaeton cat


backstreet boys playing in the background lol

 

[patscorpio]

theres going to be some fukkery fades on this card after watching this live workout so far