‘Pray for Ben Askren’: MMA neighborhood rallies round hospitalized former champion

Ben Askren has the complete help of his friends following information of his hospitalization resulting from a critical well being concern.

The previous ONE Championship and Bellator titleholder is currently dealing with a severe case of pneumonia in keeping with his spouse Amy, who shared the information of Askren’s disaster Saturday night.

“You might have heard that my husband Ben goes by one thing,” Amy posted on Fb. “He developed extreme pneumonia which got here on very all of the sudden. He’s at the moment within the hospital and unable to answer something at the moment.

“We welcome all prayers for therapeutic and for peace. We try to maintain life as regular as attainable for our youngsters at the moment and doing our greatest to help them thoughtfully so please chorus from discussing it with them for now.”

Wrestling insider Pat Mineo, who initially reported the information, added that Askren can be coping with a staph an infection.

Whereas there’s nonetheless little info concerning Askren’s situation, the MMA neighborhood was fast to take to social media to indicate their help for the previous UFC standout.

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