News about {Ben Askren}

Former NCAA mat champs to meet at BU

06/26/11 Rising mixed martial arts star Ben Askren will participate in an exhibition wrestling match at Bucknell University next month.

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MMA News 5/17: UFC 131, BJ Penn, Jake Shields, Tito Ortiz, Brock Lesnar and More

05/18/11 Bleacher Report's MMA news recap for Tuesday 5/17: Frank Trigg gives it one more go. Kenny Florian wants Jose Aldo. UFC and Twitter. "Bigfoot" Silva calls out Josh Barnett, doubts Lesnar. Ben Askren knows he will be in the UFC one day. BJ Penn calls out Jake Shields on twitter. Maximo Blanco signs with Strikeforce. Antonio Nogueira says Shane Carwin "will be easier" for Dos Santos. Matt Mitrione ...

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Bellator 40 weigh-in results: Askren and Thompson, tourney fighters all on weight

04/08/11 All fighters competing at Saturday's Bellator 40 event today successfully made weight for the show. Today's official fighter weigh-ins took place at First Council Casino in Newkirk, Okla., which also hosts Saturday's show. Bellator welterweight champion Ben Askren (170.6 pounds) and veteran Nick Thompson (170.8), who meet in the headliner of the MTV2 broadcast, both successfully made weight for ...

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Former champ Lyman Good joins Bellator's season-four welterweight tourney

01/12/11 Former champion Lyman Good is the fifth and latest addition to Bellator Fighting Championships' upcoming season-four welterweight tournament. Officials today announced the season-one tournament winner's inclusion. He hopes to win the tournament and eventually avenge his only career defeat, which came in a 2010 title fight with season-three tourney winner Ben Askren.

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Another MU alum goes into mixed martial arts

07/21/10 Mark Ellis follows 2008 Olympian and two-time NCAA champion wrestler Ben Askren, who has become a rising star in mixed martial arts.

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Askren Sets Off to Wrestling World Team Trials

06/10/10 Bellator finalist Ben Askren continues his double shift this weekend in Council Bluffs, Iowa, where he will look to win the 2010 USA Wrestling World Team Trials . Askren will have to compete in the mini-tournament, a preliminary in which he faces the U.S. National Champion, before he makes the world team.  Should Askren emerge from the mini-tournament, which features several wrestlers who have ...

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Bellator Fighting Championships Signs U.S. Olympian and NCAA Champion Ben Askren

12/09/09 CHICAGO----Bellator Fighting Championships announced Wednesday the signing of highly touted MMA prospect Ben Askren to an exclusive long-term agreement.

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