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Hendricks beat Askren a couple of times back in the early 2000s, this way quite a substantial amount of time before Askren started to really come into his own and season as a wrestler, he fought Hendricks when he was in high school when he was hell bent on take downs alone, when he was in college that's when he started to learn how to win on the mat.
Here is an example of that, Askren was good at using his defence to create his offence when he reached the world stage, if you go back and watch his high school days, he would immediately look to get back on the feet rather work on the mat, but he was very good at using his size advantages there.
I believe he also had NCAA's single-season pins record which still hasn't been broken, but I may be wrong, need to do some digging.
Askren went on to become a Pan American, US in wrestling and World champion in grappling and that's when he started to develop all of his tricks when his floors were still roar
Hendricks was a monster wrestler, he had a very high winning record in college as he did in high school, throughout every department, that was where he really made himself known, and stuck to NCAA rather go the route of worlds, both guys had their reputations, Hendricks glory moment was the fingers in Woodley's mouth incident.
When they made it to the octagon, Askren injected his wrestling more, Hendricks did years ago have a more polished MMA game and didn't solely rely on that alone like Askren.
Here is an example of that, Askren was good at using his defence to create his offence when he reached the world stage, if you go back and watch his high school days, he would immediately look to get back on the feet rather work on the mat, but he was very good at using his size advantages there.
I believe he also had NCAA's single-season pins record which still hasn't been broken, but I may be wrong, need to do some digging.
Askren went on to become a Pan American, US in wrestling and World champion in grappling and that's when he started to develop all of his tricks when his floors were still roar
Hendricks was a monster wrestler, he had a very high winning record in college as he did in high school, throughout every department, that was where he really made himself known, and stuck to NCAA rather go the route of worlds, both guys had their reputations, Hendricks glory moment was the fingers in Woodley's mouth incident.
When they made it to the octagon, Askren injected his wrestling more, Hendricks did years ago have a more polished MMA game and didn't solely rely on that alone like Askren.
