UFC 239: ‘inferior’ Ben Askren should ‘go back to Asia’, says Colby Covington after Masvidal KO
- Former One Championship star’s trash talk made it ‘so much sweeter’ when Jorge Masvidal KO’d him with a flying knee in five seconds
- ‘CM Punk spent more time in the UFC Octagon and has two less KO losses than Askren,’ says Colby Covington
And the former UFC welterweight interim champion didn’t need much encouragement to pile in on the former One Championship star, who has subjected him to plenty of taunting on social media.
“Oh yeah, [that] made it so much sweeter,” Covington said on Ariel Helwani’s MMA Show. “For a guy with Asperger's who’s always talking about my IQ level. Let’s check his IQ level, his brain’s gotta be real scrambled today.
“Fun fact, CM Punk has spent more time in the UFC Octagon and has two less KO losses than Askren. So I think Askren needs to go back to Asia with all the other inferior products.”
Former WWE star Phil “CM Punk” Brooks, of course, failed to light up the Octagon following his high-profile switch from professional wrestling, with two one-sided defeats. Former Olympian wrestler Askren’s pedigree is a little bit more impressive, though – he was 19-0 heading into the Masvidal fight at UFC 239 last week, and a former lightweight champion in Bellator and Singapore-based One, where he wiped the floor with the competition.
He retired at the age of 33 in 2017 thinking he would never get the chance to fight in the UFC, given his poor relationship with UFC president Dana White. But the path opened last year when he was part of a blockbuster trade that sent former UFC flyweight champion Demetrious Johnson to One.