Recently, UFC President Dana White has changed his mind about Ben Askren as just declared that he does not mind seeing Askren in UFC soon.
But Askren is not buying it. Askren is currently playing for OneFC and has just recently finished Nobutatsu Suzuki in 1:24 becoming the OneFC welterweight champion. This makes his record at a standing 14-0.
Askren is now at OneFC after both Bellator and UFC declined to take him to their promotions. But now that his stocks are rising, UFC seems interested in him all of sudden. But not Askren as he said "I have a hard time with how Dana White treats people."
Askren talked to MMA Hour talking about his intentions of taking things slow with regards to UFC.
He said "It's kind of like all of us had that time in high school when we were bullied by the cool group of kids. Then we did something, then the cool group said 'oh my god, can you be part of our group?' Then some of us who didn't have low self esteem said 'well, you didn't want me the first time, I'm alright.' Then some other people, they run, 'the cool kids want to hang out with me? Yes, please.' I think it's kind of one of those things."
Askren used as an example how White publicly humiliated Renan Barao over his botched weight in fight against TJ Dilalshaw.
He said "Even last weekend, Barao, did he make a misake? Yeah, he blew it. He freakin' blew it, big time. He probably shouldn't be at 135 pounds. But the way Dana just threw him under the bus like he was a piece of garbage. Where was some human decency there? I think we've seen it time after time with Dana. And so I think at the end of the day he cares about his bottom line a lot and he doesn't care enough about the athletes."
Askren was not happy with how White dished out fighters whom he thinks was not worth a fight in UFC saying ""Him saying I'm not good enough for the UFC? I've got more skills in my pinky finger than half the damn guys in the UFC."
Adding "Have you seen some of these guys fighting lately? It's ridiculous. Having the letters UFC behind my name is not the be-all, end-all it is for someone. Some people think once they get into the UFC, that's it. I think with having more large organizations in the word, it's going to be great for the fighters, because the right now the fighters are being underpaid greatly, in my opinion, and I was one who was able to step outside that box and go find a great paycheck somewhere else."