Muhammed Lawal berättar om hur han ser på MMA. I dagsläget anser han att det är mer underhållning än sport.
Muhammed Lawal är aktuell igen då han deltar i Bellators lättungviktsturnering som går av stapeln i helgen. I en intervju delar han med sig av sin syn på MMA:
”MMA is entertainment. People don’t get that. ’Oh, it’s a sport.’ When fans are like, ’This is a black eye for our sport.’ No, it’s entertainment, playa. You got the game wrong. This is entertainment. We’re here to entertain. It’s entertainment. It ain’t really a true sport just yet. If it’s gonna be a true sport, they gotta do a lot more to make it a true sport.”
”MMA people have a short memory. All they want to see is blood and guts and things like that. They don’t care about technique. You actually care about the technique and tactics when you start to do it and participate yourself.”
Lawal anser även att fansen har en roll som avgör synen på MMA:
”They drink some beers. They talk about MMA or UFC or Bellator or World Series Fighting and they talk like they can do it themselves. That’s because some people in the higher-ups in the sport do the same thing. They talk like they can fight, but in actuality they’ve never even fought before. They haven’t stepped foot in the cage or a boxing ring. Or anything. They might have trained a little bit, but they never fought before. So, how you gonna tell me what to do when you never fought before? And that’s what the fans do.”
Vad anser läsarna? Är MMA mer underhållning än en sport?
