Jake Paul is praising former opponent Ben Askren as “one of the toughest fighters of all time” after a life-threatening battle with pneumonia. In the wake of Askren’s latest health update Wednesday, when he revealed he “only died four times” before receiving a double lung transplant, Paul took to X to applaud Askren’s perseverance.

Ben Askren gave an update on his health a month after the MMA fighter was hospitalized with a severe case of pneumonia, sharing that reading his wife's recollection of the ordeal is "like a movie."