'King Mo' Lawal Wants to Ref a Fight Between Kim Winslow and Cyborg
by Brent Brookhouse on Jan 9, 2012 9:46 AM EST
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At Saturday night's Strikeforce: Rockhold vs. Jardine card, "King Mo" Muhammed Lawal ran through Lorenz Larkin with relative ease. The finishing flurry of punches seemed to go on far too long as referee Kim Winslow was very slow to jump in and stop the fight despite Larkin turning away and just trying to cover his face.
Lawal was clearly upset about the late stoppage in the cage but waited until the post-fight presser to really go off about it. Via MMA Diehards:
"The commission, they need to do something with her. Let her take a fight or something and give her a bad ref. Let her fight Cyborg or something. Let her fight 'Cyborg' and then let's do a late stoppage of her. Because I watched her almost get Jan Finney killed by 'Cyborg.' I think the tables need to be turned. Put me in there as a ref and I'll just do a terrible job like her. I heard people from the crowd yelling to stop it and she jumps in all late. I told her, 'Hey you should have stopped the fight earlier.' And she's like, 'Well, I wanted to give him every opportunity to bounce back, so if it takes for him to be asleep. That's what it is.' She never took a punch before so it's easy for her to say that."
I generally think Winslow is underrated as a referee but her performance in that fight was bad. If anything, this is a good reminder of the fact that almost all of these guys have no interest in hurting the man they're fighting. They just want to win, not put the guy in the hospital or damage his life down the road.
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Oh, he mad.
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He defended her late stoppage at the post-fight interview.
Guess he had a change of heart.
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She’s fucking terrible, and I’m sorry but if even a LW loses his shit and goes Platoon in there what’s she gonna do about it?
Or what if she was officiating Chuck Babalu, or Hendricks Fitch? Fitch would have Fitched the fuck out of her because he was not fully checked in. Babalu might have actually tore her knee up with a heel hook!
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There are lots of tiny dude referees in combat sports too, you know. No idea what that has to do with anything.
by ihateemo on Jan 9, 2012 4:01 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
My point is if it was Kim instead of Big John in those cases she would have got fucked up.
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Real chivalrous comment here by Mo.
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Next time she referees King Mo and someone lands a couple of punches on him, she’ll stop the fight immediately, and he won’t be able to complain whatsoever!
by Shnak on Jan 9, 2012 9:14 AM EST reply actions 6 recs
Point completely missed.
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by Hendo_One-Shot on Jan 9, 2012 5:15 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Sarcasm completely missed.
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by MicahtheCynic on Jan 9, 2012 11:18 PM EST up reply actions
Before the fights go down I bet you any fighter would pick "taking extra shots" to "early stoppage"
ESPECIALLY someone angling for a title shot or fighting for the title. That stoppage wasn’t super awful, the Finney-Cyborg one was bad but Finney was intelligently defending herself from what I remember. The rules leave those judgements up to the ref but they could use a little tightening up.
"Now you see that evil will always triumph, because good is dumb."
Maybe a fighter, thinking opportunity/money/career first would prefer extra shots
But as a fan, I don’t want to see anyone take any more punishment than is necessary.
If Lavigne had stepped in and stopped Edgar-Maynard 2…I would not have complained one bit.
"You got Floyd Mayweather making 25 million dollars...he can't stop the double leg." - Nick Diaz
In many ways, it’s fights like Edgar-Maynard 2 and Lesnar-Carwin that have set a precedent for a more lax approach to stopping fights. Comebacks are ruining MMA.
Exactly
Remember the moment where Edgar was sent rolling across the Octagon against Maynard? The fight wasn’t stopped.
But then back in June of 2010 you had Leben vs Simpson where the fight was stopped off of a similar dazed roll that Simpson did…
"You got Floyd Mayweather making 25 million dollars...he can't stop the double leg." - Nick Diaz
Come to think of it
As a fighter, who knows if those extra shots when you are out/going out are the ones that are going to shorten your career that much more, make your layoff that much longer or something like that.
If I’m Yves Edwards or Demien Maia…I would have personally thanked Sam Stout and Nate Marquardt for stopping themselves from delivering extra blows…
I know I sure as hell would feel bad if I ever threw more shots than necessary just because the ref wants to give them more of a chance.
"You got Floyd Mayweather making 25 million dollars...he can't stop the double leg." - Nick Diaz
Playing neurologists' advocate here
Yves and Demian were donezo, they didn’t argue the stoppage and had no idea what planet they were on. Edgar and Brock came out in the next round, didn’t quit on the stool and eventually won big.
"Now you see that evil will always triumph, because good is dumb."
I wasn't saying anything about the stoppages
More on the respect Nate and Stout showed in not delivering extra shots when they didn’t need to.
Unlike a certain f’cking Brendan Schaub who stared at an unconscious Cro Cop for 2 seconds before moving in and bouncing his head off the matt again.
And the more I think about it, even Hendo, as much as Bisping deserved it, slamming an extra shot into Bisping was a bit much…that sort of thing isn’t very cool.
"You got Floyd Mayweather making 25 million dollars...he can't stop the double leg." - Nick Diaz
Sorry I was kind of trying to do a catch-all reply there and missed your point
Yeah it’s always great when a fighter knows their opponent is done and leaves it at that versus going for some brutal fatality move (even if it makes a crazy hilarious meme). Loved it when Lawler helped place Lindland’s legs down gently, or when Hunt just walks away off that uppercut. Badass moments.
"Now you see that evil will always triumph, because good is dumb."
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by gspmademegay on Jan 9, 2012 10:29 AM EST up reply actions
Yeah it's called a championship title
Remember the 4th round of the 3rd fight?
"Now you see that evil will always triumph, because good is dumb."
by menckenstein on Jan 10, 2012 8:15 AM EST up reply actions
I respect that opinion
But I have to ask: Wouldn’t you love MMA less if refs stopped fights the way you seem to want them to? Because I love fights like Edgar-Maynard, Kongo-Barry and Lesnar-Carwin, and if you told me we were never going to get another fight like that again, I would love MMA less.
by MichaelDavidSmith on Jan 9, 2012 9:44 AM EST up reply actions
I prefer more uniformity
Than to have moments during a fight where I’m openly questioning why it isn’t being stopped. Sure…you get guys like Kongo and Edgar that can survive…and all of that damage will catch up to them eventually. But for each of them, there are plenty of fights that go on too long.
Lesnar-Carwin wasn’t too bad…I mean, after that main barrage, the shots were coming slow.
"You got Floyd Mayweather making 25 million dollars...he can't stop the double leg." - Nick Diaz
I’ve seen fights stopped where less damage was being done, and the fighter on the bottom was doing more to defend himself, than Lesnar-Carwin.
by MichaelDavidSmith on Jan 9, 2012 9:56 AM EST up reply actions
Right, but that's kind of one of the points of having a ref
is so there’s a neutral party looking out for the fighter, so any mix of self-interests don’t blind a fighter or their camp to the point the fighter is hurt
by ChicagoMMAFan on Jan 9, 2012 11:26 AM EST up reply actions
For someone asking for a media ban against Gegard
he should really apply one to himself, two wrongs don’t make a right.
His new name should be Mo the Jester.
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‘what a pussy.’
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by gspmademegay on Jan 9, 2012 9:19 AM EST reply actions 6 recs
Rampage would put him to sleep in the 2nd round. Unless he decides to hump him.
by evenflow10 on Jan 9, 2012 9:22 AM EST via mobile reply actions
Well, duh
Not quite sure what it has to do with this though.
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by MicahtheCynic on Jan 9, 2012 9:24 AM EST up reply actions
But, Mo, then you would become what you hate!
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my entire goal at that point is to grab his crown and hit the pawn shop
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by Earl Montclair on Jan 9, 2012 9:33 AM EST up reply actions 3 recs
So they can tell you it's made of chocolate?
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it.....it's made of chocolate and not......but......
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by Earl Montclair on Jan 9, 2012 9:40 AM EST up reply actions
He's even better at fake-drinking a disgusting energy drink as KenFlo
I mean some of it did go into his mouth but he spat it all out pretty quick.
And that photo is pretty badass.
"Now you see that evil will always triumph, because good is dumb."
by menckenstein on Jan 9, 2012 12:57 PM EST up reply actions
I watched it back
And at first I wasn’t really fussed about the stoppage. Second time around, yes it was late, but shit, Larkin has a killer chin, he just kept eating those shots and wouldn’t go out, it kinda felt like it should keep going on until he went out,
However strange that may sound
I believe in Chael Sonnen.
OT: After the last BE Radio, I have a question. What would happen if King Mo trained with a clone of King Mo? Would Clone Mo make King Mo so powerful that no one could stop him?
Or would he still get merked by Feijao?
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Feijao and Gegard would use the secret fusion technique to become Feijard Mousalcante
After destroying King Mo they’d scatter the moneyballs to the far corners of Planet Winslow so no one could wish him backl
"Now you see that evil will always triumph, because good is dumb."
by menckenstein on Jan 9, 2012 9:38 AM EST up reply actions 12 recs
I would pay to watch a TLC match with Cyborg v Skeletor (Kim Winslow) with gues reff Moe
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by the jewish conquistador on Jan 9, 2012 9:45 AM EST reply actions
Before every fighter, each fighter should fill out a form
where they can check off a box, either “take extra shots” or “early stoppage” and the ref can err on that side when stopping the fight involving their safety.
Box 3: "I just got caught"
"Now you see that evil will always triumph, because good is dumb."
by menckenstein on Jan 9, 2012 9:56 AM EST up reply actions 3 recs
Hypothetically:
If, as it appeared, Larkin really was done, couldn’t Mo have forced Winslow’s hand by stopping the assault and walking off?
This is an oule.
by some schmuck in texas on Jan 9, 2012 9:59 AM EST reply actions
Could've
But that’s not his job.
"Now you see that evil will always triumph, because good is dumb."
by menckenstein on Jan 9, 2012 10:00 AM EST up reply actions
You obviously risk a Palhares style 'no, come back and finish' result.
But it could almost as easily go the other way.
This is an oule.
by some schmuck in texas on Jan 9, 2012 10:03 AM EST up reply actions
Funny thing is...Palhares actually believes he notched two wins in his belt that evening... True Story.
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I heard someone yell
“Quit!” during that fight.
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It was the other guy's knee
"Now you see that evil will always triumph, because good is dumb."
by menckenstein on Jan 9, 2012 12:28 PM EST up reply actions
I'm thinking here about the bizarre stop and start stoppage about a year ago
Levigne was the ref, I think, and Matt Brown was just shitkicking his guy and after Yves (unaccountably) started the fight again, Brown kept on looking at him after every undefended punch and shrugging like ‘ok…now?’
This is an oule.
by some schmuck in texas on Jan 9, 2012 10:02 AM EST up reply actions
Glad he brought this up
Even if he went too far with it
Delighted he brought up the Finney fight
I’m still all cunty about that
by Cunny on Jan 9, 2012 10:18 AM EST reply actions 2 recs
Didn't Mo back the timeliness of the stoppage in the post-fight speech?
He said something about how if it was him, if he wasn’t asleep, he wouldn’t want it stopped?
Yeah I think he was being polite or trying to see her side since Winslow had just spoken to him prior to post fight interview.
Earlier last week, I watched Jeremy Stephens vs Marcus Davis again...
And after defending her as a capable referee, Kim Winslow was way out of position when Stephens landed the KO shot on Davis. So much so, that Stephens had time to land the same kind of diving shot on an unconscious Davis that Hendo landed on Bisping.
Then she does all this on Saturday. Way to make me feel like an asshole for defending you, Kim.
by The Hamburger Pimp on Jan 9, 2012 10:35 AM EST via mobile reply actions
Its really kind of funny
Watching mma fans grapple with either agreeing with the cocky (mma fan lingo for uppity) King Mo or defend Kim Winslow who does have an inconsistent record with good and late stoppages.
It seems the truth is only good when it comes from someone you like lol. Stay salty mma fans.
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Use of "uppity" and "salty"... salt is white... Kim Winslow is white... and a woman... username The Blackula
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"Now you see that evil will always triumph, because good is dumb."
by menckenstein on Jan 9, 2012 12:12 PM EST up reply actions
Pretty much
People making fun of Mo’s tweets, apparently not knowing that he gets tons of racial charged hate tweets everyday.
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Which tweets are people making fun of ?
The only ones I’ve seen posted on BE are his trash talk against other fighters.
"Now you see that evil will always triumph, because good is dumb."
by menckenstein on Jan 9, 2012 12:28 PM EST up reply actions
Just two days ago
He was saying that people were dumb for thinking he didn’t want to go to the UFC.
People talked a bunch of shit about him and his twitter account.
I’d probably be the same way if i had hundreds of ignorant bigots saying ridiculous racist shit to me, too/
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People are shitty assholes
But silver lining is: you have a lot of haters = you made it.
"Now you see that evil will always triumph, because good is dumb."
by menckenstein on Jan 9, 2012 12:58 PM EST up reply actions
By that logic
Jon Jones must have made it 10x over last year.
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Bentley, ESPN magazine, ESPN appearances, interviews, endorsements, oh right and that lil belt thingy someone gave him for some reason.
"Now you see that evil will always triumph, because good is dumb."
AAAAGH!
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by MicahtheCynic on Jan 9, 2012 2:43 PM EST up reply actions
MichaelDavidSmith "wouldn't you love MMA less" gem.
Wouldn’t you like to think that your favorite Fighters might be able to hold a conversation with their Children and Grand Children, as they age?
If Lavigne had done his job and stopped Maynard/Edgar 2 after an unprecedented beating, Edgar could have avoided similar damage in Houston.
A Refs job, protect the fighters.
I only recall seeing Winslow like five times, and there's at least three very bad refereeing performances from her.
Get rid of her.
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She is a horrible, horrible ref.
Fun story, being a woman and all. But a horrid ref. If she were a man, she’d be relegated to small time regional shows and never heard from again. Get her out of bigger fights like this. Really, get her out of reffing completely.
In before the “Fuck you sexist!” comments, also.
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by Jonathan. on Jan 9, 2012 3:05 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
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