If you ask any honest MMA blogger to choose 4 words to describe what goes through their mind, prior to reading an interview with dudes like Chael Sonnen or “King Mo” Lawal, there’s a 90% chance they are ‘this-will-be-good.’ Sonnen’s gift for shocking gab has garnered him his own term with Fix for golden quotes, ‘Sonnens’, while Lawal continues to deliver in this respect, no doubt because the recently crowned Strikeforce champ is now receiving more well deserved coverage.
Yesterday we posted Lawal’s take on this weekend’s UFC 115 bout between Chuck Liddell and Rich Franklin, and the accomplished wrestler certainly didn’t wimp out on making a pick, stating outright he’s picking Liddell by KO. Well, in an interview posted today by Fight Hype, Lawal covers several topics candidly, including training with James Toney, his views that “Rampage” Jackson has slowed down, as well as, his favourable opinions of Rashad Evans. Where the interview gets particularly popcorn worthy, is when Lawal talks about himself and Evans being labelled by some, as ‘lay-and-pray’ fighters:
“That’s the UFC frat boy fans. They just want to see slugfests. If you want to see a slugfest, go to a bar. If you put two skilled fighters in there, you can’t get them to have a slugfest. You can get two mid-level fighters. If you want to see crisp stand-up, watch boxing. They hate to see someone with good stand-up come to MMA, like James Toney, but when someone like Rashad uses his wrestling, he is considered boring.”
To check out the rest of the interview, which trust us, doesn’t disappoint head here.
