{"id":10360,"date":"2025-06-12T06:51:33","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T10:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/ben-askren-former-mma-star-hospitalized-for-severe-pneumonia\/"},"modified":"2025-06-12T06:51:33","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T10:51:33","slug":"ben-askren-former-mma-star-hospitalized-for-severe-pneumonia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/mma\/ben-askren-former-mma-star-hospitalized-for-severe-pneumonia\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Askren, former MMA star, hospitalized for severe pneumonia"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Ben Askren, Former MMA Champion, Hospitalized for Severe Pneumonia<\/h2>\n\nFormer MMA champion and former UFC welterweight champion Ben Askren is hospitalized due to severe pneumonia, according to his wife via social media on Saturday.\n\nAmy Askren shared the news on Facebook, expressing the seriousness of the situation.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cYou may have heard that my husband Ben is going through something,\u201d wrote Amy Askren. \u201cHe developed severe pneumonia that came on very suddenly. He is currently in the hospital and unable to respond to anything at this time. We appreciate all prayers for healing and peace.\u201d<\/p><cite>Amy Askren<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nAmy also requested privacy for her family during this difficult time. The couple has three children and resides in Wisconsin.\n\nAskren, who retired from MMA in 2019, had a distinguished career. He was a two-time NCAA Division I wrestling champion and a member of the 2008 U.S. Olympic team.\n\nBefore his time in the UFC, Askren won welterweight titles in Bellator MMA and One Championship.\n\nIn the UFC, Askren had a record of 1-2, including a victory over former champion Robbie Lawler.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Askren, Former MMA Champion, Hospitalized for Severe Pneumonia Former MMA champion and former UFC welterweight champion Ben Askren is hospitalized due to severe pneumonia, according to his wife via social media on Saturday. Amy Askren shared the news on Facebook, expressing the seriousness of the situation. \u201cYou may have heard that my husband Ben [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[3743,478,3744,228],"class_list":{"0":"post-10360","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-ben-askren","9":"tag-mma","10":"tag-pneumonia","11":"tag-ufc"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}