Under en intervju i ”Submission Radio” berättar den lätta tungviktaren Muhammad ”King Mo” Lawal att han inte tycker MMA är en riktig sport jämfört med till exempel fotboll eller basket. Lawal menar att man inte behöver göra mycket för att få ett kontrakt och att det inte krävs några specifika kvalifikationer.
Så här förklarar han det, via ”MMAfighting:”
As far as rivalries go, at Bellator we ain’t got no rivalries. We just worry about what we gotta do to entertain the people and entertain the fans and getting people watching us. Everybody wants to make it ‘the UFC verse everybody’. No, the UFC does their thing, Bellator does their thing. If that’s the case, I guess the NBA and the NFL have a big rivalry. No, NFL does their thing, NBA does their thing. It’s just people want to make a rivalry about something.
MMA is not a true sport like football and basketball. With football and basketball – even rugby and all those other sports – they have feeder programs where they weed out the weak. So eventually the best gets to the top league. The UFC, they can sign whoever they want. They can sign a guy – and even Bellator – In MMA, any organization can sign anybody that warrants the hype. I can get a bum, let him fight crocodiles lizards and snakes and then put it on YouTube, have him fice MMA fights, have him win against five bums and guess what? Throw up the hype off the YouTube videos and Instagram, and next thing you know he might get signed by a big organization, off the hype.
In football, rugby, soccer, basketball, baseball, hype doesn’t mean nothing. What happens, are the results of your numbers, the stats. Performance is what means something. In MMA it’s about performance and it’s about hype; how you win. You know how you win is what matters and where you go. In real sports, if you just win, it can be a 1 point victory every time, as long as you’re winning, that’s all that matters.
Lawal vann senast via knockout över Joe Vedepo under Bellator 131 – Ortiz – vs. Bonnar den 15 november.
