King Mo Says Fedor Is the Top Guy on His Radar - "I Feel Like I Can Beat Him"

From here on out, against any good competition,this guy is going to try and lay and pray his way to wins. He does nothing with a take down except get out-struck like he was against Mousasi.

I’m a huge fan of King Mo but everybody says basically the same thing about Fedor but they always end up looking dazed and confused while the chubby Russian’s hand is being raised.

“From here on out, against any good competition…”

You destroyed yourself with that statement. Implying that Mousasi wasn’t good competition shows a frightening lack of mma knowledge.

I think King Mo is still evolving. It’s true though that he seemed to be puzzled at times in top control, however I don’t think enough credit was being given to Mousasi being able to land blows from his back. To be honest, I’m getting sick of the “lay-and-pray” arguments from people whenever a wrestler wins. King Mo won because he was the better fighter. The better fighter is usually always able to implement their game plan better than their opponent.

If you can’t get over the whole ’wrestler’s suck because they all lay-and-pray’ attitude, maybe this sport isn’t for you. It’s mixed martial arts and you need to win any way you can. If it means utilizing wrestling, then its opponents that need to learn takedown defence.

Why do I have a feeling we will see Fedor fight King Mo before Overeem.

He knows he’s going to end up in the UFC and this is his only chance to fight the best fighter ever. Every astute business from King Mo, win or lose.

Agree about the business move, not sure if the UFC is his ultimate goal though. View the following scenarios:

1) Lawal loses in dominating fashion to Fedor. Result: Oh well, Fedor is the best ever and no shame in that, besides Lawal may be giving up some weight and only has a handful of fights under his belt.
2) Lawal loses in close fashion to Fedor. Result: Mo’s stock rises dramatically and he is the second coming of Chris (a la Rogers).
3) Lawal beats Fedor: Result: Insane nuthuggery and King Mo is given the keys his own kingdom somewhere. “King” Casey goes back to making rap videos.

There is no situation in which King Mo can lose here. Good business acumen to try and talk his way into a fight with M-1… I mean Fedor.

King Mo calling out Fedor!? That gave me a good luagh, the guy is no where near Fedor’s level. He is not even in the same weight class! This is just rediculous. King Mo needs to continue winning fights within his own weight class and defending his belt for a while before he starts calling out the HW champion.

get armbarred in the first round, then yeah Mo’s statement is pretty accurate

he backed it up against Mousasi

with Russian wrestlers?

It’s my understanding that the Russians regularly produce some of the top freestyle wrestlers in the world. Why doesn’t Fedor train with them?

Everybody says that one of the disadvantages the English and Dutch have is that its tough to train wrestling over there. The Russians don’t seem to have that disadvantage, but I’ve never heard of a Russian MMA fighter with strong wrestling and wrestling takedowns.

Anybody have a good guess?

Fedor shouldn’t cut weight. He would do worse against the 205ers than he would do against the 265ers because one of his big advantages as a HW is speed, and that advantage would be negated against the likes of Shogun.

As for the Rogers fight, yes, he didn’t look as dominating against Rogers as the Reem, but it wasn’t nearly as good a stylistic match-up for Fedor as it was for Alastair. Alastair and Brett are both one-dimensional strikers, with the main difference being that Alastair is significantly better as a striker and has a better ground game to boot. If Fedor and Alastair fought, it would be nothing like Overeem v. Rogers; Fedor might lose, but he would most likely hit with more than one shot, would clinch more, would tire Alastair out, and wouldn’t fold under pressure like Rogers. If Fedor can take it into the second round, then I think Alastair’s advantages start to melt away rapidly, and if he makes it to the third, then the Reem is done for.

Not every jab is thrown for knockouts. But its hard to argue Arlovksi wasn’t finding some success with his standup against Fedor until he decided for a flying knee. Do I think he would have won the bout anyway? Nope.

Mo straight up look for the takedown style worked against Mousasi…i have trouble thinking it would against Fedor. This is the guy that was suplexed ON HIS HEAD from what had to have been 6 feet in the air….and turned it into a kimura less than 90 seconds later. Fedor would take him to tappy town via armbar in quick fashion.

Go home.
It’s one thing to say “i want to fight Fedor”
its another to say “i CAN BEAT him”

be realistic Queen Mo