Former Strikeforce light heavyweight champion Muhammed “King Mo” Lawal did an interview Saturday night following his win over the previously undefeated Lorenz Larkin.
“King Mo” railed on fellow light heavyweights Gegard Mousasi and Quinton “Rampage” Jackson.
He also didn’t have anything nice to say about referee Kim Winslow.
Here are a few quotes from the interview:
“I’m going to put it like this: The commission, they need to do something with [Winslow],” Lawal said. “Let her take a fight or something and give her a bad ref.”
Lawal was angry about her seemingly slow stoppage of his bout. In the second round Lawal had taken Larkin down to the floor and pummeled him with some good ground-and-pound blows. Winslow finally stepped in after more than a dozen big punches that seemed to take Larkin in and out of consciousness.
“She said backstage, ‘If I hear ‘Ow’ or ‘Ouch’ or ‘Ooh,’ I’m going to stop the fight,’” Lawal explained. “Man, this dude was cussing. I hit him, and he’s like, ‘Oh, [expletive].’ I was like, ‘Uh, ref?’
“I looked at her, so I kept on hitting him. I was like, ‘Man, she needs to stop this thing.’ I heard people in the crowd yelling, ‘Stop it!’ Then she jumps in all late.”
Winslow gave her explanation to Lawal after the fight stating, “If it takes for him to be asleep, that’s what it is.”
Lawal believes it was an ill-informed explanation.
“She’s never taken a punch before, so it’s easy for her to say that,” Lawal stated.”Let [Winslow] fight ‘Cyborg,’ and let’s do a late stoppage with her,” Lawal said. “I watched her almost get Jan Finney killed by ‘Cyborg.’ I think maybe the tables need to be turned. Put me in there as a ref, and I’ll just do a terrible job like her.”
Then Lawal started taking aim at Mousasi (a man Lawal says sounds like “Kermit the Frog” when he talks) when a rematch with him was brought up.
“He’s the most boring person in MMA,” Lawal said. “If they want me to beat Mousasi up – my bad, ‘Kermit’ up – I’ll do it. But he’s just so boring, I hate thinking about him,” he continued. “I would beat him up, but the dude’s boring. Let’s join my bandwagon, and let’s boycott Gegard. How about that?”
That statement earned plenty of laughs but Lawal wasn’t finished yet.
He then took blows toward “Rampage” when he was asked if he has hopes for an upcoming bout with the former UFC champ.
“Why you got to bring up that bum’s name?” Lawal asked. “If [Jackson] wants to come to Strikeforce and get beat, he can. To me, he needs to stick to acting and doing movies. To me in my mind and in my eyes, he don’t got it no more.” He continued, “He can hit me up on Twitter and talk trash, trying get me off my game, but we all know the truth. Man, he’s an actor – a sub-par actor. He should’ve got ‘The B-Team,’ not ‘The A-Team.’”
Lawal did not say where he will go next, but the man who once thought of Strikeforce as a dying cancer patient now seems more comfortable with it.
“It’s like this: I’m in Strikeforce,” Lawal said. “Fans that are asking about the UFC, they’re stupid, man. I’m in Strikeforce. What can we say about the UFC?” He continued, “I’m in Strikeforce. The UFC has their own thing. Strikeforce has their own thing. I can’t be concerned with what they’re saying. I just got to worry about my fights in Strikeforce.”