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#242 – Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA
Lex Fridman Podcast
Wrestling Is a Big Deal
Wrestling is specifically a big deal there. They obviously rough tumble tough tough life It's a lot of fights and then I think that also that a lot of them it is a way out right there the Elite level athletes in that part of the world from my understanding really well compensated compared to what the average person makes. People see it as a way out was like and then honestly if America's getting better, but in 2008 the reason I went to MMA was because I didn't want to be poor with my whole life Yeah, you know I'm saying it sucks. So I'm definitely gonna travel there to talk to them because I can speak Russian that makes it very It makes me uniquely qualified
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