#1110 Ben Askren | Olympian On UFC, Sterioids & Jake Paul
The Pomp Podcast
Anthony Pompliano
4.8 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2022
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Summary
Ben Askren is an Olympic gold medalist, MMA fighter, and author of the brand new book "Funky". In this conversation, we discuss his fight with Jake Paul, PED usage in professional sports, the future of wrestling, the wrestling academy that Ben has built, and the business behind combat sports.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, everyone? This is Anthony Pompliano. Most of you know me as Pomp. You're listening to the Pomp |
| 0:07.4 | podcast, simply the best podcast out there. Now let's kick this thing off. Ben Ascgren is an Olympic gold |
| 0:13.6 | medalist, an MMA fighter, and the author of a brand new book called Funky. In this conversation, |
| 0:19.3 | Ben and I cover a lot, everything from his fight with Jake |
| 0:21.7 | Paul to PEDs, where the sport of wrestling is headed, the business behind combat sports, and much, |
| 0:27.9 | much more. I really enjoyed this conversation with Ben. I hope you guys enjoyed it as well. |
| 0:32.3 | Once you get done listening, get on Twitter and let us know what you liked, what you didn't |
| 0:35.2 | like, what you agreed with, and what you didn't agree with. We love the feedback. |
| 0:38.6 | All right, let's get in this episode with Ben. |
| 0:39.9 | I hope you guys enjoy this one. |
| 0:41.5 | Anthony Pompliano runs Pomp Investments. |
| 0:44.1 | All views of him and the guests on his podcast are surely their opinions and do not reflect |
| 0:48.9 | the opinions of Pomp investments. |
| 0:50.7 | You should not treat any opinion expressed by Pomp or his guest as a specific |
| 0:55.0 | inducement to make a particular investment or follow a particular strategy, but only as an |
| 0:59.7 | expression of his personal opinion. This podcast is for informational purposes only. |
| 1:04.8 | All right, guys, bang, bang. I've got Ben here with me. You got a fascinating life. And I thought |
| 1:09.2 | a great way to kind of understand what the hell you've been through. It's to start off first talking about just excellence. Like, it's like, it got a fascinating life. And I thought a great way to kind of understand what the |
| 1:11.1 | hell you've been through. It's to start off first talking about just excellence. Like I feel like a |
| 1:15.4 | lot of the things that you've done in your life, you've tried to be the best at it. Talk like, |
| 1:19.8 | what does excellence mean to you? And why has that been such a focus for you? Yeah. I mean, |
| 1:24.2 | and it's kind of the way I think about things. Like, if I'm going to try to do something, I might as well try to be the best at it. |
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