Former MMA champion and UFC contender Ben Askren stays in an uphill well being battle.
His spouse, Amy Askren, posted on Fb that her husband continues to be battling extreme pneumonia and is on a ventilator and ECMO help.
“I haven’t shared an update because Ben has been in limbo for a while and I was hoping to have him wake up and be the one to decide what to share,” she wrote Tuesday in a Fb publish. “I’ve had some media folks contact me that they’re going to share an replace and I might somewhat it come from me.
“Ben is still on a ventilator and ecmo to support him while he heals. There are good days and bad, but on the good, they have been able to wean his sedation enough for him to open his eyes and squeeze hands. His body can’t handle coming off sedation too much yet. I’m still praying for a miracle with his current lungs, but they are currently starting the evaluation process for lung transplant.”
Askren, 40, contracted pneumonia after struggling a staph an infection.
Amy, who has three youngsters with Askren, requested for MMA followers to hope for his continued therapeutic, and if a transplant must be essential, a swift course of from there.
The previous MMA celebrity was beforehand a two-time NCAA Division I nationwide champion and 2008 Olympian.
He competed within the UFC on the finish of his profession however he was most profitable whereas in Bellator and ONE Championship, the place he was the welterweight champion.
Askren was 19-2 in his MMA profession, a document that doesn’t embrace when he was infamously TKO’d by Jake Paul in a boxing match in 2021.
He had a contentious rivalry with UFC President Dana White throughout his time within the group that boosted his stardom.
