Ben Tynan Explains Origin of Jean Shorts Worn in Knockout Win Over Duke Didier

Ben Tynan revealed his inspiration for the pair of jeans shorts he wore in his impressive win over Duke Didier at One on Prime Video 21.

Tynan sent the Australian crashing to the canvas with an elbow and followed it up with vicious ground-and-pound, securing a stoppage at the 2:36 mark of Round 1. “Vanilla Thunder” improved his perfect finishing streak to six, which includes two ONE Championship outings. If that were not impressive enough, Tynan wore a pair of jean shorts while doing it.

Asked about the shorts, Tynan explained that they were inspired from pro wrestling, which he grew up watching.

"I’ve always had a vision of fighting in these jean shorts,” Tynan said at the post-fight press confeence. “I don’t know where it started from. It might’ve come from the days of watching professional wrestling as a kid and seeing big beefy dudes in jean shorts beat each other. I always had that image that I wanted to be one of those guys, so being able to slap them on and do the same is really cool.”

Both of Tynan’s ONE Championship bouts have been in Thailand. While Tynan has enjoyed traveling to the other side of the world, the Canadian heavyweight is also rallying for a spot at One Championship 168 which goes down in Denver, Colorado in September.

“Yeah, I would love to get on that Denver card, that’ll be awesome,” he said. “I have a lot of family and friends who’ve been wanting to come support me but can’t make the trip out to Thailand, so to get noisy up in Denver will be a lot of fun.”