Jake Paul and Ben Askren exchange heated texts ahead of fight YouTube: Jake Paul \/ Twitter: Ben AskrenYouTuber Jake Paul and former UFC star Ben Askren are set to take to the boxing ring on April 17, but they\u2019re already in a war of words ahead of the bout. It\u2019s no Conor McGregor, but Jake Paul is going big for his next boxing bout. After taking down Nate Robinson with relative ease, the YouTube star turned hopeful boxer will take to the ring against Ben Askren on April 17. However, in the lead up to the fight, the two have already thrown punches over text. Ben Askren leaked DMs between the two on February 24, claiming \u201cthis next generation has some really bad role models.\u201d View this post on Instagram \u201cHey Jake seriously were you even trying against Ben [Darmstadt]? That was pathetic. Hope you try a little bit harder in our fight,\u201d the former UFC fighter opened with in the exchange. \u201cHiya bubba! So good to hear from you! I know Masvidal gave you brain damage so I\u2019m guessing you meant to ask if I was even trying against Nate,\u201d Paul replied. \u201cWe\u2019re going to get you through this fight nice and fast so you can retire after.\u201d Askren clarified that he was talking about Ben Darmstadt, before Jake Paul went on a tangent, asking his opponents if he\u2019s ever taken drugs, saying he needs \u201chelp taking his edge off.\u201d View this post on Instagram While Askren ignored most of Paul\u2019s questions, he had the final jab ahead of the bout. \u201cYou gave up here like you\u2019re going to give up in our fight. You don\u2019t have the heart. Please don\u2019t back out of our fight.\u201d Jake Paul vs Ben Askren is locked in for April 17, and is set to be one of the biggest PPV fights in history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jake Paul and Ben Askren exchange heated texts ahead of fight YouTube: Jake Paul \/ Twitter: Ben AskrenYouTuber Jake Paul and former UFC star Ben Askren are set to take to the boxing ring on April 17, but they\u2019re already in a war of words ahead of the bout. It\u2019s no Conor McGregor, but Jake […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}