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Ben Askren

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first: 2021-11-20
most recent: 2021-11-20
sittings or episodes: 1
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“And then once I step in, it's time to go. So I didn't have this anxious build up. Now it's out for me. I took it away. But like me, you know, like you said you have a way to get it away, obviously, because it's so. I guess there's”
2021-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #242 – Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I had the ability to be anxious. And one of my coaches talked about, and a lot of A type personalities are kind of that way, you know, because they're trying to consider all possibilities at the same time. And while we're actually performing or competing, it's negative to performance, right? So he said he would always, leading up to the match within, say, an hour, his thing was talking about fishing. He would get someone to talk about fishing with him because it would stop him thinking about the match and being uber anxious. So I kind of really took that to heart and it really helped me as I would always like have someone to talk to and just goof around about whatever. So I'm not thinking about this thing.”
2021-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #242 – Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Could he have been better? Or did he have you're saying you don't necessarily feel those? So I think certain people that I've coached, like they would describe how they would feel literally during the wrestling match, right? And you're saying like during the speech performance, it's mostly gone. Yeah. And so it'll be interesting to see if he talked a lot about that. But if it was all the way somehow gone. That means he would have a mechanism for it. So like I had a really bad performance my freshman year of high school at Nationals.”
2021-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #242 – Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So then that problem somehow has solved itself, right? The problem is when the anxiety is actually happening while the wrestling match is happening, that's the real issue.”
2021-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #242 – Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think so. I think in two different things. So I think probably your everyday life is different than in a performance or a competition. You have to be super in the moment of what you're doing. So anything that's pulling you away, like, oh my gosh, high school kids, right, that coach. Oh my gosh, that girls in the stands, if I get beat, then they're actively thinking about this other thing when this is going on. And I need 100% of your focus right here.”
2021-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #242 – Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I would be really fascinated to really dig deep from a sports psychology standpoint because you always talk about how much fear he had when he was competing. And I find that to be interesting because obviously, so it's almost like to me, it's almost like, was he successful despite that, not because of that, right? And because anxiety usually leaves it really negative performance for the majority of people. And what was it about him that the anxiety wasn't super negative? You know what I'm saying? It's very interesting.”
2021-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #242 – Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“With GSP, so yeah, I don't think I have anything to roast him about. Maybe the Matt Sarah thing would be the one that you get them with, you know?”
2021-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #242 – Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“What do you say bad about GSP? Now I try to roast his hair. Why is he trying to grow hair now after all these years? He looked good bald. Everyone loved him with his head shaved. Yeah.”
2021-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #242 – Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Too intense, it's just too much. No, it's too much. It fills up. I want to be able to consume the content. So if I want to see something he says, I can go to his page, right? But it's just too much for my timeline. I want to be able to consume who I follow. So I try to not follow a lot of people because I want to be able to consume them. And he was too much. He fights the trolls, which I don't know why we would ever fight the trolls. There's just too many of them. Well, he's a troll himself.”
2021-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #242 – Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Where's the most magical place in the world, right? I always tell people it's the greatest source of information if you know how to use it.”
2021-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #242 – Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I didn't have that nose with you. I figured. Got a general sense of okay, he's really successful, he's super sharp, he's really interested in some really interesting things. I bet we'll have a great conversation, but I had no intention to roast you.”
2021-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #242 – Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Man, you know what? If I was going to boom roast someone, I would want to kind of like research their career and dissect them and figure out their biggest negative to the”
2021-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #242 – Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, I'm sure, and also the more success you have, you become sought after other places. Yeah. I'm sure that's happening with you”
2021-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #242 – Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You can be successful at one thing, generally, whatever that recipe was that took you to be successful at that, apply it to everything else, right? Apply it to the rest of your life, apply it to getting a wife that you enjoy, apply it to living in a place you want to live, doing a job you want to do, right? There's so many possibilities and you just have to be bold enough to go take those chances.”
2021-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #242 – Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, in wrestling, I think wrestling is really a microcosm of what your life's going to be. And that's why one of the things I stress to kids is like, if we can go through this now and you figure kids who are struggling certain things or not, if you can figure it out this now in wrestling, it's going to be a lot better figure out now and get over this mental hump than when you're 32 and you have two kids and right and your job's not going well. It's going to be a lot worse. It's going to be a lot more painful then. Let's fucking figure it out now. So a lot of these things, a lot of these lessons we can learn from wrestling, whether it's persistence or perseverance or work ethic or, you know, I said wrestlers show up on time and they work hard, right? These things, if we can learn these things at an early age, those are general, those characteristics will generally carry on throughout our life. And those are the things that are going to make us really successful. So I would say finding great coach, someone who's going to spend a lot of time and put a lot of time into you and make sure they have a lot of wisdom and steal all the wisdom that you can from them. And then they'll, if”
2021-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #242 – Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I love numbers also. So they have all these different categories. Like you can see how long a wallet is held Bitcoin, right? Or how many Bitcoins are in a certain wallet? And so what they've seen during the downturn, right? So April, it kind of peaked and went down is that the whales are still bodies of whales of people of 1,000 or more are still buying. The main group of sellers is the ones who held it from zero to three months. So like they don't have money. They bought it because they thought it was going up. And now they're like, oh shit, I got to sell it. Whereas anyone's head out for a long time is generally still holding on.”
2021-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #242 – Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It is for sure. These really fascinating things in Bitcoin, the guy on one of the main guys on our podcast, it's called On Chain Metrics. So all wallet transactions are visible. And so they have all these fun categories. So I actually, I think you said you don't like numbers, but.”
2021-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #242 – Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Half a million, and you're going to feel really, really rich with that half a million dollars because you bought it for FN2,500 dollars, you know? So, yeah, so I would encourage anyone who's not Uber rich to, if you have huge profits, take a little bit of them because it could change your life.”
2021-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #242 – Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, yeah. So I don't here's so my podcast co hosts, he's like super rich, like uber rich. So he has lost touch with the Everman. So here's my argument. And listen, I'm doing well for myself in life. But if, say, someone buys a Bitcoin, right, one Bitcoin of $5,000, which it was last year. This bitcoin goes from $5,000 to $200,000, which is right around what a lot of people think the peak is going to be. And they bought one Bitcoin. And they are living in a $200,000 house. So to take half of that, right, you started at $5,000 of the Bitcoin to sell half of Bitcoin for $100,000 and pay off your house, your remaining house payment. Life changing to someone, it really is. And so you still have a Bitcoin. So if Bitcoin goes to a million, you're still going to have.”
2021-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #242 – Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, most people think say in the next three to six months will be the top of the market. And so probably when that happens, I'll probably sell a little bit.”
2021-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #242 – Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I got in in 2017, so I got to watch it go up. I didn't sell shit at the top. Really stupid. And then the majority of my time was spent through the bear market. And so I had to love it for the principles that it provided, not the fact that actually I actually lost money in the beginning. And now I'm way up. But yeah, so I just hold.”
2021-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #242 – Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“American people don't understand that. American people don't really understand the unbanked, right? A decent portion of the world is unbanked. They don't have access to it. And a much, much, much smaller portion of the world doesn't have access to internet. So if I can put a mobile wallet on your phone and we can send money person to person. So there's a whole bunch of those problems that Americans don't really think about that are really obvious that this solves. So I think that's the key one. Obviously, the fact that the value goes up is really outstanding also. But if you look at it,”
2021-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #242 – Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“See it. So I saw this in when I was spending all the time in Singapore. Singapore is obviously a really wealthy country. And so you'd have Indonesian workers or Philippine workers. And they would all go on Sundays. They would go to these places to ship stuff back to their families and through Western Union. Western Union gouges the shit out of these people. I mean, they're taking 8, 10, 12 percent of whatever they're sending. Then it takes five days and the person's going to pick it up. Whereas Bitcoin, I could send you Bitcoin person to person, right? So like.”
2021-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #242 – Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, I can't say I'm in super deep where I understand the technical components of a lot of them. I understand what Bitcoin can do for people. And so that's probably the one I focus the most on. And I actually think I was talking about, I was trying to convince Michael to talk about Bitcoin because he hates it also when he didn't last night. And I think most of the main problems Bitcoin solves people in America are so American centric they don't understand it. So like high levels of inflation, that hasn't happened to happen. It hasn't happened in America in a long time, right? But someone in Venezuela is like, oh, I get that. Or remittance payments, right? Remittance payments to”
2021-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #242 – Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So my friend told me about it in 2017. My friend met me in Shanghai. I fought in one championship. And he told me. And the second he told me, I'm like, I'm so in. Because I had read Ron Paul and the Fed, I had read an understanding how the Fed is unfair. And so he told him about crypto this decentralized system that no one has control over. It just made sense. And so the podcast, we had Michael Saylor on it, and I love the ways it's like, who do you trust more with your money? Do you trust the politicians? Or do you trust engineers? I think that's an easy choice. I don't even think I have to think about that. I don't trust politicians. No matter what country they come from, China, America, wherever, I don't trust them.”
2021-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #242 – Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Like, I've used that quite a few times where it's kind of like a bailout mechanism that gives me back to maybe not a great position, but obviously much better than being taken down.”
2021-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #242 – Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, I think there's a few places where I use it. But so specifically the elevator series, which is my main series off bottom, it's not Butterfly Guard. It's a butterfly guard like grip with your foot. So I boom, I go here, I catch your leg with my foot, boom, and I elevate you over, right? And then also sometimes, I think Keegan does this too from watching me, but if I get double-legged, sometimes if I'm accepting, so freestyle, obviously you're going to give a point. Folks, accepting that you've already got me. And as I go down, I'm just going to butterfly guard you up, you know, and then I'm going to try to flip my hip back to the mat and end up in a wizard position.”
2021-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #242 – Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Don't see people locking their hands all the time at folks just because they did freestyle. It's like they get it. There's a rule, they understand it. So the notion that somehow you come from on your back.”
2021-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #242 – Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But, like, Juju-jutsu, for example, so I coached when I was at Rufus, I coached the wrestling for three, four, five years. So I'd be taking a jiu-jitsu guy and teaching them a wrestling technique where you needed to use your feet. Teach Jiu-Jitsu guys so easy, so simple because they understand the concept butterfly guard, etc., etc., etc., right? To take a wrestler who's never done any of it and teach him how to use his feet. Oh my God, it's such a beast. It's so hard. Know because they just that's not a weapon they're thinking about using so it's like we understand the rules it's like freestyle folks are wrestling and freestyle from the men I can lock my hands”
2021-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #242 – Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's so stupid. It's so stupid. For God's sakes, we know the fucking rules. Russell, you don't go to your bag in jiu-jitsu. You can. It's like, whatever.”
2021-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #242 – Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But he's a coach and what he's doing. Yeah, I mean, yeah, I think if you take him when he's younger. He would have had a lot of fun. We actually have a really good wrestler making his MMA debut tomorrow, Bo Nickel. I'm sure you've heard of him. I think he's going to have a lot of success.”
2021-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #242 – Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Different names wherever you go. It's got different names. So I would say like pre jiu-jitsu, I was average at it. Like, I could do it. Because I'll tell you because they would get the back of their head up and they were too strong where you couldn't collapse them by going over their neck, right? Because the forces went right. In jiu-jitsu, you learn the one arm guillotine where you grab their chin, and this is more running along the side of their head, and then you go here and you choke them, right? Much more efficient way to move their head because the fulcrum is way down here and their head can move into that, right? So once I learn that jiu-jitsu, I'm like, wait. Can do this in wrestling. So now once I went out and grabbed their chin the right way and I do the honey badger, no one ever gets out.”
2021-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #242 – Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Can both steal from each other, right? As any martial art can steal from another. And I feel like Jiu Jitsu didn't do enough stealing from wrestling. Like they should have looked at all the wrestling possibilities and said, well, why don't we steal that and that and that, you know, and like, hey, let's take that over. And maybe we'd make a little tweak because it's different, but there's something we can definitely use there. So like in wrestling. For example, you know, there's a one arm guillotine in jihu, right? Okay, so there's a move called, well, it's got 100 names, it's like the oldest move in wrestling because it's what they did, the cows where they go around the chin and they throw them on their back. I don't know what you call that one.”
2021-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #242 – Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Not that hard. If they really put their mind to it because they already, like when you grapple, and this is any grappling art, like there's a certain part of it that you kind of get. And it can, it might not be the exact same thing, but you understand how your body moves and how to feel certain pressures. And you can adapt yourself pretty quickly, you know? So I don't think there's a certain level of stubbornness where they didn't want to certain people didn't want to do it for whatever reason. I think a lot of times in MMA, it's the I'm so macho, I can stand and bang thing, you know, where they want, you know, Shaho Macho, they are. But yeah, that was a frustrating one that there's a lot of wrestlers who became highly proficient in jiu-jitsu and really adapted, and it doesn't go the other way. And then I guess the other thing there too is.”
2021-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #242 – Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Listen, man. I mean, Damien Maya, who's my last fight, is a great example of someone who actually did get proficient wrestling, right? There's some of these jiu-jitsu guys that's like, if you just got on top, you would submit him. Why can't you learn a freaking takedown? Like, holy moly. Like, just learn how to take someone down. Once you get them down, they will not get up and you win the fight. It's so easy, you know? But they refuse”
2021-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #242 – Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There's all these things, right? That factor into it. I think the fact that we're really open minded, like I think if you would, I don't pick on Jiu Jitsu again, but like how many Jiu Jitsu guys have become highly proficient in wrestling versus how many wrestling guys have become highly proficient in Jiu Jitsu? I think that number swings one way and not that much the other way, you know. So we're open to adapting and learning. And for some reason, like jiu-jitsu people, how many of them have got high level wrestling or even mediocre level wrestling? The number's really small. Like they refuse to. It's really frustrating. Like, why won't they do this? This is obviously part of it. You know, like, I don't pick on specific guys, but there's certain guys in the history of MMA where you're like,”
2021-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #242 – Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The discipline those things. Then I think you throw on top of that the fact that most of us have competed 1,500 to 2,000 times probably by the time we get to 20 something, like that's a huge advantage too. Most of these other people in other disciplines maybe have competed 100 if that, right? So we have this competitive process down really, really, really, really well.”
2021-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #242 – Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So we just lost a bunch of the belts wrestling as a sport, right? But yeah, at one point we had, I think it was eight of nine. Maybe or something to that effect. And I think it's not just wrestling, not just the actual martial art of wrestling that contributes to. Success in Mixed Martial Arts, but other things like the way we're systemized. So most kids, each high level success have went through the high school program and the college program and they know how to show up on time and they know how to work hard. So when they go to ATT or AKA or wherever, they know how to show up on time and they know how to work hard. And that's going to get you a really long way. Just those two things, right?”
2021-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #242 – Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My house, I didn't vacation everything. So that was a big part of it. Obviously, the style thing is like no one could, there was only a few people who could stop my style. And I think I continue to get better as a mixed martial artist. I wasn't as innovative in mixed martial arts, but there was a handful of things that I innovated, specifically in the top position where I spent a lot of time, where it was just like there was just once I got on top of you, it was like in a spider web and there was just kind of no way out. You know, you never felt the certain things I was doing. And so people just gave up eventually.”
2021-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #242 – Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Consistency would be one. The fact that I lived and trained the same way no matter where my life was, whereas a lot of fighters, once they start making money for the first time, they have all these obligations and they travel and they really enjoy making money. And that's kind of why some of them fall off.”
2021-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #242 – Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“America gave any of the open bins that meddled the opportunity to not even have to wrestle. They just got to keep the spots, it was two months later if they meddled. So the only one who's not is Gable. Gable is moving on. We have a pretty good guy behind him, named Nick Wizdowski, who's a world medalist. But then Burl's filled in the 79 spot. Jaden Cox filled in the 92 spot, who's a world champion also. So we have...”
2021-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #242 – Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Competing with them, and they're not sending a couple of their best guys to Oz. So for those who don't know, the Olympics got moved back of the year. So they are hosting the World 2021 World Championships, despite the fact that we just had the Olympics two months ago. So it's happening next week in Ozl, Norway. So, like, Russia's not sending their number one at 57 and number one at 65. So it's like. America's probably going to win, I think. I don't want to guarantee anything, but there's a really good chance of it.”
2021-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #242 – Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, I think America's coming to the point where we're going to compete with Rush every single year in wrestling, which obviously long, long time ago, many, many years. We were great. And then kind of after that Soviet Union period, I think there was a lot of poverty in that area. And that kind of led the wrestling team going down a little bit. And then obviously a lot of those regions, the way they found oil and gas in the Caspian Sea, I believe. And they've been really kind of on the upswing for the last 20 years. And now America really since 2012 has been on the upswing in wrestling. And we're kind of really.”
2021-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #242 – Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't know what the story is because sometimes out of Russia, I mean, maybe you have better sources than I do. Sometimes it feels like dudes just disappear. Like they're a world champ or an Olympic champ, and all of a sudden you're like, wait, I know. Where'd he go”
2021-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #242 – Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I don't know if you remember, do you remember Bilal M Below Mockoff actually was the Russian representative in both styles of 2016, Greco and Freestyle. And he was, to my knowledge, the only person the UFC has ever signed that was zero in modern era, signed that was zero and zero. And then he actually never ended up fighting. Weird, right”
2021-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #242 – Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, well, Kyle won the first one in 17. It said, July have pinned him the following year, but then Kyle lost and took bronze in 19, and then just lost. I don't want to say fairly decisively, but it was 6-3, and it was a late takedown. He kind of gave it up and maybe physically competitive, maybe wouldn't have Going to wrestle again in like two weeks here. So that, you know, yeah, I mean, you have to say Set July at this point, there's nothing else to say unless Kyle proves us otherwise.”
2021-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #242 – Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I want to be able to watch him and see him and feel the times and feel their opponents and all those things to really giving bad answers. There's just not enough footage of any of those people. You know, we go back to someone like Alexander Medved. You can't find anything on him. Who was he wrestling? I'm not sure. So post-2000, I think, and obviously just freestyle.”
2021-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #242 – Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Having fun. So, yeah, if Kabib wants to work out, I'd love it. I love wrestling and grappling. I don't do much because I don't have time for it anymore. I'm at the wrestling academy every single day. But I love Jiu-Jitsu while I did it. And if I didn't have wrestling academies, I probably would still be doing Jiu Jitsu.”
2021-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #242 – Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Were on the same team for a while And there were rumors that Could be beat him up. And I said, I sure can't believe that And I've heard that that was if they were just straight wrestling, Ed would get slightly the better of it.”
2021-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #242 – Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“People that trained with them. So, okay. So I grilled someone, I will not say who on the Ed Ruth think. Ed Ruth is very elite at Folkestone Wrestling. He never became that great at fighting, unfortunately.”
2021-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #242 – Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source