“If some of this stuff happened in the UFC, the fans would give it more praise for sure. If Overeem did some of the things he’s doing in the UFC, he would be considered the next God. The fact of the matter is a lot of these fans aren’t familiar with what’s going on in Japan, and then they try to call Strikeforce ‘Strikefarce’ because they hear Dana White call it that. Dana White has his own opinion or whatever, but fight fans need to have their own opinion and their own way of thinking, but we know that’s asking a lot.”
“Mousasi was like my sixth or seventh fight. In the fight I tried trading with him but he was covering up from my strikes so I took his ass down. Now they say he is overrated. Simply put if he was in the UFC and I was in the UFC and that fight happened we wouldn’t get that flack and we would’ve been all good.
“Some people are just groupies and they are idiots who are quick to say that someone is overrated just because they don’t know shit about MMA.”
“I had an argument with some dude on Twitter because he was trying to say that Fedor is overrated. I asked him how Fedor was overrated and he answered with “yeah man…he beat Arlovski who doesn’t have a chin and Cro Cop whose washed up. He beat Nogueira who is washed up too.” I’m like what the hell? I
“f Fedor is overrated then what do you consider Cain Velasquez, Brock Lesnar or Frank Mir? Fedor was beating the guys who they are beating way before those guys got the chance to fight them. People love to jump on and say people are overrated when they lose. When that happens they say “ah he’s no good” or “he’s overrated”.
“Fighting safe is fighting smart. Some people are idiots and just don’t get it. If it’s the first quarter in a football game do you see teams going for it on 4th and 12? Hell no! They punt the ball away. If a team has a great secondary but a week defensive line you run the ball at them. C’mon man MMA is a sport. It’s not Tough Man or cock-fighting. It’s a legitimate sport where it takes strategy, brains and game planning to win a fight.”
“Some if not most of the media are just groupies. There are a very few out there that know a little bit about MMA but a lot of these m************ out there are just people doing some stupid ass bulls*** reports. I read things that say such and such about so and so and who gives a damn about that? Talk about the dude’s training. Talk about how this guy is out there busting his ass. Talk about that shit. Don’t talk about shit that don’t matter.”
“I don’t give a f*** about organizations dog. I fight for the money. Strikeforce is my home. I’m immersed there for the damn cash and Strikeforce offered me the money so I’m going to fight for them. This is my home right now and they are my family. I ride for the money.”
“M*********** everybody fights safe. If we didn’t we would go in there with the chin up and hands down. So they need to go on with that bulls***.”
Lawal is currently rehabbing an ACL tear which he suffered in the loss to new Strikeforce light-heavyweight champion Rafael Cavalcante. He expects to return to action sometime this year.
