Well it seems like there really do is a back story between the hate connection of Ben Askren and Johny Hendricks and the reason why he keeps on goading Hendricks for a fight.
Their feud started way back in college when Askren was wearing the singlet of the University of Missouri, while Hendricks was fighting for Oklahoma State.
Although Askren has been taunting Hendricks, it is sure that for now, both fighters wont be seeing each other inside the octagon. Hendricks is the UFC welterweight champion while Askren is his OneFC counterpart.
Hendricks was asked by MMA Hour last Tuesday on where his hate for Hendricks started.
He narrated "It's hard to describe in full effect unless you've been around the wrestling community a long time. He has won so many matches lucky through college. ... He was wrestling my teammate Tyron Woodley in the Big 12 finals, 2005-06, somewhere around there, and [the score] was 1-1 in the third. Tyron's in on a shot, and Johny kept sticking his fingers into Tyron's mouth. So finally Tyron bites him, which he shouldn't have done, but when someone's sticking fingers in your mouth, it's like, c'mon, so he gave up a point because he bit him, land he lost match 2-1. And it's like c'mon, is that really how you're going to lose the Big 12 finals? He was just doing sneaky s-- like that all the time."
According to Askren, since Hendricks was on a lower weight class, he was willing to make the sacrifice just to beat the pulp out of him. He added "The people at the All-Star Classic said you can't do that because you're not the same weight class. I said I don't care, I'll make the sacrifice, I'll go down in weight. I want to beat this dude bad. They never did make it happen. A couple years down the road I heard it was because he turned the match down personally. I can't confirm or deny that face."
Recently, Askren met Hendricks at The Ultimate Fighter 19 Finale where he once more goad the latter.
He said "I stopped him, I said Johny, go tell Dana [White] we need to fight. He was response was 'Dana who?' At this point I'm so dumbfounded he said Dana who, I'm like obviously you know who I'm talking about Johny, don't be a dummy. I just started laughing, before I finished laughing, he walked off. That was our face to face right there, if he said I didn't say anything to his face that's a damn lie."
