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King Mo is not happy with fans who are discounting his win over Gegard Mousasi
By Zach Arnold | August 3, 2010
KENNY RICE: “Let’s take a look here coming up, you’re fighting Rafael Cavalcante, known by everybody else I think as Feijao and we remember seeing him back in the day when he was first coming up.”
BAS RUTTEN: “Same here. Rising star, man. He’s very good on the ground but he has got a lot of knockouts, only one submission. So, yeah, this is a fight for Mo that you know, I think undefeated both guys are going to be the same, about the same. On the ground, he has the more skill, but the technical skill with the submission but you’re training with Dean Lister, it’s going to be a big problem for Feijao with a guy like him on top.”
KING MO: “Man, you know, even on our feet like I might not be as technical but I know from my style he has to worry about takedowns and a lot of the other things and not open my strikes and you know I got Dan Perez and Melchor Manor and I’ve been working with Trevor Wittman out in Denver at the Grudge Training Center, so I’ve been adding new techniques to my stand-up. So I’m looking to unveil them for this next fight.”
KENNY RICE: “Yeah, and you’re quickly defending your title.”
KING MO: “I like fighting a lot.”
KENNY RICE: “You didn’t get much breathing room there from the time you put on the belt.”
KING MO: “I’m always in shape. I’m always training, I’m always in shape, you know after my fights I usually I keep on training the week after and then take a few days after the week has papssed because I like to stay in the gym. That’s like another home for me.”
BAS RUTTEN: “Is your belt as big as Sarah’s, by the way?”
KING MO: “It’s the same size. It’s probably just as heavy.”
JUDO GENE LEBELL: “Yeah, but Sarah’s is real gold!”
BAS RUTTEN: “In the Pancrase days, I wanted a title fight because now you can’t fight a normal fight, every fight is a title fight, right? You see in Pancrase it wasn’t. I was the champion but then you have like two fights in the middle that are just fights and then you fight for the title again. They do it, it’s the weirdest thing ever. I wish it would have been all title fights, I would have had a whole stack of belt. That would have been great.”
KENNY RICE: “MMA Junkie poll, where would you rank King Mo right now? He is certainly in our Top 10 Light Heavyweights. I don’t see how he could not be. 47% said yeah, he’s Top 10. 6% put you in the Top 5. I would question everybody in that 47% that wouldn’t rank you in the Top 10 right now. I think there needs to be a little more love for the Strikeforce champion.”
KING MO: “You know how it is. Everyone, Mousasi’s a good fighter, everyone had Mousasi in the Top 10 pound-for-pound, everyone said Mousasi’s this, Mousasi’s that. Everybody said Mousasi would kill King Mo, King Mo has no chance. First round knockout for Mousasi but after I won, they just discounted, they discredited Mousasi’s abilities because I was taking him down and controlling him. Well, people, I wrestled at the world level, you know, I’ve taken down people considered some of the best in the world. Mousasi’s not a wrestler and he never stop my takedowns. And they just don’t understand that and I’ve worked with great jiu-jitsu guys like Dean Lister and Fabricio Werdum and they’re teaching me high-level techniques, plus Nogueira and you know I’m holding my own with them and Mousasi’s not at level as far as jiu-jitsu.”
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King Mo shouldn’t get his panties in a bunch.
Mousasi was ranked way too high before their fight. He was closing in on the Top 5 LHW’s despite his best win being over Renato Sobral. His rankings were more hype then anything else. In no way did he deserve to be higher then 9 or 10.
So when Lawal beat him, the Mousasi hype ended, and so did many of those irrational rankings. Sadly they are still out there. Far too many websites still have both Lawal and Mousasi in their Top 10, which lacks any sort of logic. Lawal should be either 9 or 10 and Mousasi has no business being in the Top 10.
If Lawal wants respect, he should go compete in the organization that has 13 out of the Top 15 LHW’s in the world. Until then, he will continue to fight lesser competition and be laughed at by anybody who wants to take him seriously.
Lawal is more annoying then a good interview.
Not wanting to fight you here 45, but I don’t think that there are alot of people laughing at King Mo. Do some people not think that he should be in the Top 5? Sure. But that does not mean that they are laughing at him.
I think people discredit Mousasi and Lawal’s win over him because of how easily King Mo took him down. I mean, those were not explosive, GSP-like takedowns from Mo, but rather him bending over at the waist and doing a basic double to get Mousasi to the ground. If Mo had really exploded and looked more like GSP I guess with his takedowns, then people would probably attribute his win more to his wrestling ability than to Mousasi’s lack of takedown defense.
Oh, and I loved how Bas just threw a chapter about himself in Pancrase in there.
Agreed.
And its like Bas hypnotizes people into listening to an hour of his life before they realize what’s going on.
King Mo: Not happy with fans who are discounting his win over Gegard Mousasi
Fans: Realize he’s got 1 major win and looked like crap in it.
Mo continously took Mousasi down, then proceeded to get bitch-slapped around the canvas for 15 minutes even though he had top position. He may have outpointed Mousasi and won the sporting competition, but he lost that “fight” in a lot of fan’s eyes.
Nobody care’s that Mo have a great wrestling and a good-decent exchange. The does he’s bussines with Mousasi, i wanna see him in front of Roger, Monson, and later Shane Del Rosario (He take some fights on 205 sometime’s). I think Strikeforce have to be calm with their division’s.
UFC begin’s with nothing, the top dog’s get old with the time.
Mo, wait for your time to shine.