{"id":109788,"date":"2014-08-26T12:01:31","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T19:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=109788"},"modified":"2022-02-04T20:37:30","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T04:37:30","slug":"king-mo-mma-isnt-a-true-sport-like-pro-wrestling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bellator\/king-mo-mma-isnt-a-true-sport-like-pro-wrestling\/","title":{"rendered":"King Mo: &#8216;MMA isn&#8217;t a true sport like pro-wrestling&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/king-mo-set-to-make-bellator-debut-against-przemyslaw-mysiala-on-january-24-ufc-news\/king-mo2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-47162\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-47162\" title=\"king mo2\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/king-mo2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"390\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/king-mo2.jpg 390w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/king-mo2-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/king-mo2-361x250.jpg 361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cPro Wrestling is harder than MMA. Here\u2019s the reason why, in MMA I can avoid damage. I can circle, I can pull guard, I can take you down, I can push you to the cage, hell I can tap, I can verbally give up. In Pro Wrestling I\u2019ve seen guys tear their ACL and continue to wrestle solely to please the crowd. You know regardless of what happens, the show must go on. You go out there, people are out there at one point they were wrestling like three times a week, four times a week. You know Hulk Hogan\u2019s leg drop shrunk his spine, but guess what, he was still doing it. You know, your body is banged up, you&#8217;re taking bumps, you&#8217;re flying over ropes, through the ropes, hitting the ropes, hitting the turnbuckle, getting body slammed, taking a bump.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;You know that stuff breaks your body down, and you could ask any wrestler, you get a wrestler that\u2019s 47 years old and you get an MMA fighter that\u2019s 47 years old, the wrestler&#8217;s gonna look like he\u2019s sixty compared to an MMA fighter. You get Randy Couture and compare him to someone like the Undertaker, I know Undertaker\u2019s a little older but I guarantee you the Undertaker at 47, 48 years old was far more beat up then what Randy Couture was.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cMMA is not really a true sport, because in a true sport the people that win with game plans, regardless if it\u2019s a lay and pray win or a wall and stall win, they still get acknowledged. In soccer, soccer games are 1-0. They go an hour, or an hour and a half with no scoring and it&#8217;s 1-0, or 0-0, or a draw. And guess what, people are still there and people respect it. In MMA, if you&#8217;re boring they don\u2019t like you. True sports all that matters is the result, not how you win. The result is all that matters in true sports, that\u2019s it. MMA is entertainment, sports entertainment, it\u2019s like World Wrestling, that\u2019s it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/submissionradio.com\/king-mo-pro-wrestling-is-harder-than-mma\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Submission Radio<\/a>, former Strikeforce champion, King Mo Lawal compared pro-wrestling to Mixed Martial Arts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPro Wrestling is harder than MMA. Here\u2019s the reason why, in MMA I can avoid damage. I can circle, I can pull guard, I can take you down, I can push you to the cage, hell I can tap, I can verbally give up. In Pro Wrestling I\u2019ve seen guys tear their ACL and continue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2616,"featured_media":47162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[44],"tags":[10040,126,533,15,16],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>King Mo: &#039;MMA isn&#039;t a true sport like pro-wrestling&#039; | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bellator\/king-mo-mma-isnt-a-true-sport-like-pro-wrestling\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"King Mo: &#039;MMA isn&#039;t a true sport like pro-wrestling&#039; | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cPro Wrestling is harder than MMA. 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