Strikeforce: Houston Results: 'Feijao' upsets Lawal to win light-heavyweight title
by Matt Bishop on Aug 22, 2010 12:11 AM EDT
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A near 5-to-1 underdog heading into the fight, Rafael Feijao stunned "King Mo" Lawal to win the Strikeforce light-heavyweight championship via third-round TKO on Saturday night.
They touch gloves and we are underway. Lawal punches his way in and works for a takedown. Feijao posts with an arm and Lawal gets on his back standing. Huge slam for Lawal. Feijao back to his feet but Mo remains on his back. They break up. Both men miss jabs. Feijao with a good uppercut and a knee but Lawal shoots in but can't get another slam. Lawal misses a big overhand right by a mile. Feijao with two knees that connect. Nice low kick by Feijao and the round ends.
Nice leg kick by Feijao. They seem to be working. Lawal just slips a huge right. Head kick connects for Feijao but he's taken down while being over-aggressive. Full-guard against the cage. Feijao pushes Lawal off but Lawal is on him and grabs his back. Feijao slips out. Lawal with three shots to the body. Two more. Feijao with a jab. Lawal trying to work the body as he goes southpaw. Lawal getting going here with his strikes. Lawal wades in with body shots and goes for a takedown but Feijao does a nice job defending. Lawal with Feijao against the cage as the round ends.
Feijao lands a huge shot that staggers Lawal. Feijao going in now. Lawal firing back.Feijao drops Lawal as he tries to dig to the body. Lawal hanging on to a leg. Lawal pushes Feijao against the cage. Feijao going in with continuous elbows to the head and it's over.
The time is 1:14.
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There is a new king in Strikeforce’s 205 pound class. Until Mike Kyle shows up, that is (I kid, I kid)
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Karma bites Lawal in the ass. Maybe he’ll think twice before flaming the fans again.
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by villin on Aug 22, 2010 9:50 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
Flame the fans?
You mean when he said eff the haters? If you’re a hater you’re not much of a fan.
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I don’t remember him limiting it to the haters.
Sounded to me like he included everyone who cared to express an opinion.
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by villin on Aug 23, 2010 12:18 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Nope, it was limited to the haters. And that was a promo that I don’t really have any beef with. I mean, why would he bother to pander to someone like Felix? The dude buries him all day every day, when he wins he gets undue criticism, and when he loses he jumps around and flails his arms saying “SEE?? SEE, I TOLD YOU ALL HE WAS AWFUL!!!” I mean, going out and saying “I love my fans, and eff the haters” gets a pop from the fans (maybe makes a few new ones), and fires up the haters even more, so you don’t get any people in that dreaded “I don’t care about this guy” zone.
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Come on now, there’s no reason for this. I need more than one hand to count the number of times King Mo has said “F**k the fans!” In fact, it’s been discussed in several places since the fight and I know Luke asked Scott Coker about it on MMA Nation last night. I don’t doubt that he’s said “F***k the haters!” several times but I find it hard to believe you’ve never heard him do his whole “F***k the fans!” speech and talk about how ignorant MMA fans are.
I admit that I probably know this because I’m a big King Mo fan and have listened to every interview he’s done in the past few months but that doesn’t change the fact that he says it all the time. Just like I said in my response to Forrest’s comment in the Lights Out Radio post, you have to expect all of these comments like villin’s. I’ve been expecting it to come back around to bit him in the ass for a while and this is the perfect opportunity. The only thing Mo can do is come back and give someone a GSP/BJ Penn II style beat down.
If you want to hit me with a link to an interview where he said it in reference to the fans and not the haters, by all means lay it on me. Call me crazy, but I would think that if he was going around saying that all the time like you make it out to be, it would’ve made it to a headline or two that crossed my RSS feeds, not to mention here.
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You’re not crazy at all. In fact, I think you’re 100% correct that this should have made it to one of the headlines going through your RSS reader. I’m not sure what feeds you subscribe to but here a few headlines that would have lead me to believe Mo has some backlash coming his way:
- Ring Psychology Exclusive: King Mo Lawal says “F**k the fans” (one of your fellow SB Nation sites)
- Dear MMA Fans: F-you! Sincerely, King Mo (Another member of the SB Nation family)
I’m not going to go back and re-listen to all of the radio shows/podcasts he’s been on to track down more evidence. Mo’s love-hate relationships with MMA fans is not exactly breaking news, which is why your claimed ignorance seems like a veiled attempt to come running to his defense.
It looks like the only place he actually said it was that Ring Psychology interview, and then BE and Mania quoted it from there, and everybody else quoted BE and Mania. I won’t defend that, although from the verbiage it didn’t sound like as much of a “eff all y’all” as much as it was pointed at the alleged band-wagon jumpers and uneducated fools.. and let’s be real, there are a lot of ‘em. I generally call a spade a spade, but if I were in his position (or even my own position) I don’t think I’d be be saying that to anyone.. although it might be some ploy to get more people to get interested one way or another, you know? Having ten fans is ok, but having five fans and twenty people hating you means there’s that many more people paying attention.
As to why I missed it, I can only guess that I just glossed over it it when it came out on BE. My RSSs (for MMA) are as follows: BE, F4W, 5oz, Junkie, Weekly, ayout, Nightmare of Battle, Sherdog (news and articles). I’ve considered throwing in Mania, but they don’t seem to break anything that anybody else doesn’t get. I’ve also considered adding Watch Kalib Run, because it’s funny as hell, but with the 25 feeds I keep my eye on I don’t have time for all that funny.
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Top to bottom...
HardOCP, AnandTech, Bloody Elbow, Burned in, Consumerist, Engadget, F4W, 5oz, Gizmodo, Lifehacker, Missing Remote, Junkie, Payout, Weekly, Tom’s Hardware, Nightmare of Battle, PWInsider, Sherdog, Slashdot, Slickdeals, Techbargains, theHTPC, and Wrestleview.
Not too hard to figure out my interests ;)
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Lifehacker has to be one of the best sites ever. Do you ever check out Make Use Of, Mashable, or TechCrunch?
Well Mashable by it's very nature isn't my thing
This whole “social networking” stuff is for the birds, as far as I’m concerned.
TechCrunch and Make Use Of I’ve heard of, but it seems like whenever I see them and wander over to the site I never see anything compelling enough to add them to the list. Another favorite of mine is http://www.thisiswhyyourefat.com/, but you’d better have a pretty damn hefty constitution to keep from going and acquiring yourself anything you see!
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I thought elbows ere illegal in Strikeforce?
Ride the Tiger!
by doonerthesooner on Aug 23, 2010 12:32 PM EDT reply actions
Only on the ground, are elbows illegal in SF
And Fej did a great job hitting Mo with spinning elbows breaking the body lock as well.
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