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Before UFC star I’m Askren ‘s wife Amy Askren He asked his friends to send “prayers” following her husband’s hospital for “serious pneumonia.”
“You may have heard that my husband Ben was going through something,” wrote Amy through Facebook on Saturday, June 7. “Serious pneumonia developed very quickly. He is currently in hospital and is unable to respond to anything at the moment.”
He went on to thank their followers for sending “prayers for healing and peace” during this very difficult time to her family.
“We are trying to keep life as normal as possible for our (three) children at the moment and are doing our best to support them thoughtfully so refrain from discussing it with them for the time being,” he explained.
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Back CBS NewsBen, 40, developed pneumonia after initially a diagnosis of Staph infection. Amy released her statement in the midst of rumors of the state of head spreading within the MMA community through social media.
The legend of UFC Gete in sunbathing responded to the community initially by confirming through X“Ben is alive and wants prayers. Family chooses privacy at this time.”
The Askrens has been married since April 2010 and shares three children: Alex and Andy’s daughters, as well as Ozi’s son. The latest episode of her podcast “Funky and the Champ” was published on May 27, and shared some Intensive Fighting Training via Instagram the next day.
Ben Askren in April 2021.
Jeff Kravitz/Getty Images for TrillerHe signed Ben with UFC in 2018, after capturing the Bellator Bellator Welterweight World Championship and achieving an untreated streak for more than a decade. Retired from MMA in 2019. More recently he lost Ben and Very published boxing game easy Jake Paul by TKO in the first round in April 2021.
The former fighter announced in May he had signed a unique contract with Real American Freestyle, the new wrestling company owned Hulk Hogan and former World Championship wrestling executive Eric Bischoff.
“I’ve been waiting to wrestle,” he explained through X in May. “I’ve lost a competition. Like, I love fighting but I don’t have time for that anymore. I definitely don’t do any jiu-jitsu. I’m going to wrestle with someone! I’m going to whopping some of these whip-snappers whippers! I’m going to show (my opponents) what it is about.”
Ben revealed that “one of his life missions” was to help “a professional wrestling alliance to succeed in America,” so he jumped at the opportunity to join the Hogan Federation.
“When I heard these guys pitch (the concept), I thought, ‘Wow! You have great ideas. You have great resources. You have great people behind you. I think you can make this happen,’” he remembered. “Guys, a real American freestyle starts this fall! I’m going to become some of these young whippers. They’re not going to know what is hitting them when I do with them.”
Bischoff welcomed Ben to a real American free approach by responding through X In May, “from Ben… we’re Gong (sic) for so much fun. Kicking a donkey.”
Ben’s stunning grappling record includes winning the Pan American Championship in 2005 and competing on the 2008 US Olympic team in freestyle wrestling. He won a trophy Dan Hodge – the equivalent of an amateur wrestling of the Heisman trophy – in a folk -style wrestling in 2006 and 2007.
