Strikeforce has yet to officially announce Gegard Mousasi vs. Muhammed Lawal for the light heavyweight title, but the 205-pound champion told MMA Fighting late last week that he expects the fight to happen this April on CBS.Mousasi also talked about training with UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre in Miami, how many times he would like to fight in 2010 and Dana White recently saying he would like to sign him to the UFC. Check out the video interview below.
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Yup, 2010 could go down as one of the best years ever in mma.
Let's get this fight between Mo and Mousasi signed early. What would be the holdup. Mousasi has called out Mo, and Mo doesn't back down from a fight. This will be an epic matchup of styles and supreme confidence. I like both of these guys. I hate when my favorite fighters go up against each other, like the upcoming Jon Jones/Brandon Vera fight. But, there has to be a winner.
Mousasi's boxing is a bit rigid, and he thinks his power punches is stronger than Mo's; but I disagree there. And ultimately, Mousasi may fall fate to one's of Mo's power shots. Mousasi is right though, in that it doesn't appear that Mo has any submission moves.
April is so far away. :-(
Are you gauging Mo's striking based on his fight against a completely out of shape Mike Whitehead? Mo impressed me a little by being a little quicker than I expected, but Mousasi is on a different level when it comes to striking.
What do you mean by saying Mo doesn't back down from a fight ... he hasn't fought anyone yet?
Great interview as always, Ariel.
Mousasi comes across as one of the coolest dudes in MMA. I don't know what it is, maybe how nonchalant he is and how he's confident.
But 6-8 fights in 09? Who is he going to face after King Mo? Ok. Maybe Ricardo Arona. Then who? Mike freaking Whitehead? Feijao who just got beat up by Mike Kyle? He'll find soon out that the division is sort of thin and he'll eventually end up in the UFC
Adit, I agree with you there, but you may have forogtten that Strikeforce is in a multi-lateral partnership with m1, K-1 and I forgot who else. I'm sure he will fight atleast 5 times this year, but I doubt more than 1 fight will be in the U.S.
Dan Henderson
LMAO. how could i forget about Hendo?
You are right! Mousasi is a cool dude... Quiet assassin.. He is very deceptive looking... He looks like he wouldn't hurt a hair on head, but he'll put you to sleep in a minute... Night Night Sleep Tight
who cares what dana white thinks or wants anymore. he had his chance at fedor, mousasi and m-1 and instead turned 90% of the people against m-1 and made them out like criminals. they had a great offer and dana pissed all over them. they found a nice home already. dana white wants half of sf's roster. he ain't getting em. he can have jake shields and jay hieron. he cut nick diaz, robbie lawler, and scott smith. thats his loss. hendo didn't wanna sign with ufc. rampage wants no part of him. he should retire and buy as much cocaine as he can afford and go on a permanent vacation and sniff his ego away and keep convincing himself that once upon a time he was a tough guy. mma doesn't need him anymore. he's compiled a list over the last few years long enough to clearly see from a mile away that he's a permanent douschbag. the strikeforce fighters are all saying that they're very happy with their contracts, except for hieron. but who cares, hieron dug his own ditch. and he's a lay n pray fighter against decent opponents so who cares. and the only reason i get on this ufc hate train is cause soo many people still eat the ufc turd flavored popsicle and stand in line for days talking about how good it tastes. 2010 is strikeforce's year. like 2009 was. dana white and his loyal sheep fans drive me nuts. get off mousasi's nuts dana. he's signed to strikefarce and the crazy russian mafia m-1. tough sh*t d*ckhead. 'oh, yeah I WANT HIM!!' Hahaha. fanboys say nick diaz is a punk. please, dana white is a punk. nick diaz gets in the cage and kicks the crap out of people. dana talks mad smack, never will you see him get in the cage.