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Gegard Mousasi says "I hope on New Year's Eve I will get my shot at him [King Mo again]": "I think it wasn't my takedown defense," Mousasi said. "I was, in my life, somewhere else maybe. I fought his fight. I didn't sprawl, I wasn't sharp. maybe my condition should have been better. So, there are a lot of things that I could say that went wrong but basically it comes to: he fought his fight and he won. I didn't fight my fight. It wasn't that my wrestling wasn't good enough or my sprawl wasn't good enough, I think I just fought stupid." HT: mmafighting.com DREAM.15 coverage [light heavyweight tournament]

Scott Coker on upcoming match-ups: King Mo - "The fight King Mo really wants is he wants to fight Fedor. King Mo could fight at heavyweight and that would be an interesting fight. Dan Henderson vs. King Mo could also be interesting." Bobby Lashley - "Lashley and Del Rosario will probably both fight on our June 16 card and maybe we'll have the winners of their two fights fight each other after that." Gilbert Melendez - "A rematch with Tatsuya ["Crusher"] Kawajiri, ... he could fight JZ Cavalcante, maybe Vitor Ribeiro. I think maybe after another year he'll probably have a trilogy fight with Josh Thomson." Erin Toughill - "She let us know she will not be ready to fight until after July." Full interview at mmafighting.com -- photo via sherdog.com Strikeforce: Los Angeles coverage

Muhammed "King Mo" Lawal hyping up a potential bout with Gegard Mousasi: "Once it's confirmed, game over." ..."I don't know if Mousasi turned the Dynamtite!! 2009 fight down, or I guess his management – maybe he didn't have enough time to train for me on short notice, but I was willing to step in and fight him at DREAM." ..."I like being an underdog. I like people doubting me." ..."Yeah, Mousasi has good stand-up. He might have a better clinch, but I'm not worried about what he says at all. I hope he trains hard with 'GSP,' man. That's cool. It's whatever. He can do whatever he wants and say whatever he wants, cause when it comes down to it – when the fight happens – I'm going to be happy, because I get what I want." "...everybody will see what I'm talking about, why I wanted this fight." -- More at mmajunkie.com Strikeforce on CBS In April coverage

King Mo warns the athletic commissions that he has more post-fight "celebrations" in mind: "I’m going to do something. I don’t care. They can fine me. I’m going to be doing something after every fight just for them. They created a monster by fining me," said the undefeated mixed martial artist. "I’m just going to be creative and find ways to celebrate. If they want to fine me for the way I celebrate. That’s cool." HT: MMA Weekly Photo HT: Esther Lin

King Mo is not happy with the fine levied on him by the CSAC for spraying the Strikeforce cage with energy drink: "Someone told me, 'You got fined.' I was like what? Fined by who?," Lawal said. "I told Strikeforce. I figured that everybody knew. I think it probably had to do with the huge uproar because everybody was like, 'Mo's unsportsmanlike,' and their corny a** bulls***. They don't want to see me have fun and what not. They think this is the NFL." "I'm not sponsored by Rockstar. The thing is, I couldn't have any other beverage in the ring. If I could have, I would have had Pepsi. But Rockstar is cool, they are the sponsor for Strikeforce, I have a lot of respect for Strikeforce so I just did it. Why not? I was just out there having fun." "I didn't splash the mat with the drink. The drink exploded when I opened it because someone shook it up," he said. "As far as people saying, 'Yeah, Mo got the mat slippery on purpose.' Let me telling you something, you idiots: the canvas is slippery anyway. If I get Rockstar on the mat and it dries up, I'm doing them a f***ing favor, you know what I'm saying? It irritates me when people run their mouths and sh**. They always say the dumbest sh** ever and they don't know sh** about what's going on." HT: MMAFighting.com