Ben Askren

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287 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 23 Jul

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The Herd with Colin Cowherd · The Daniel Cormier Show - Ben Askren on retiring at RAF 11, Conor McGregor CRAZY injury vs. Max Holloway · 23 Jul 2026 podcast

nobody really nope no i mean i didn't i didn't even tell you how bad i was doing you just told you just told me you were just a little bit disappointed that the cardio didn't come back in the way that you thought yeah yeah yeah i mean yeah so i kind of told other people that but just the fact that like i didn't know if i could wrestle hard for six minutes um and you know when when i got the lead and then ball came out in the third period he really started pushing me hard i was like like shit i

I don't have anything left.

Like there's, there's nothing left in the tank, but I knew I would compete to the best of my abilities.

I knew I would try as hard as I could.

And so I wasn't ever really worried about that.

And that was, you know, like, I don't know if you can have a lot of faith in that, then usually you're okay with it.

Um, I, so I would say to that, I would say that, um,

I actually misspoke in the post, but I think I said my lungs hurt and my legs hurt.

I said, I meant to say my lungs, I was so tired, but then my lungs didn't hurt.

And my legs got so tired that I just couldn't stand up.

But that was normal because that was how most of my workouts went for the past six to eight weeks.

You know, I was just trying to really push myself on the aerodyne and my legs would give out before my lungs would.

Right.

So my legs would get just so tired that I couldn't do anymore.

And he never got that far with my lungs.

So it's all about my legs.

I was sore, but, you know, I was fine.

And, yeah, so I was happy with how it turned out.

Well, so I thought – I mean, my thought was if he came out with a good strategy and didn't make mistakes, it was going to be really, really hard for me to win.

But had I gotten in positions I wanted to – so my strategy was – and I couldn't say this before because I would have –

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