With an undisclosed, yet, longstanding hip injury — an injury that has plagued ‘King Mo’ since 2010 (stemming from helping ‘Sugar Rashad’ prepare for his grudge bout against Quinton Jackson: May 29th, 2010) — Muhammed Lawal (King Mo) finally feels he has just the rememdies needed, to lift the irritable pain and misery from his content and easygoing lifestyle.
After what would seem, exhausting all efforts in terms of medical pain removal procedures, and coming to the tolerance brink of acceptance, the pain King Mo’s hip would continue to put him through — King Mo would prematurely contemplate leaving his gloves in the cage post Bellator 175 bout against Quinton Jackson. Luckily for ‘Mo’, and thankfully for ‘The King’s’ advocates — Mo would have a career prolonged conversation, in the form of a friend with a browie.
Speaking with James Lynch, @LynchOnSports for Terphouse — King Mo would recall his failed attempts of stem cell injections, and cortisone shots in his hip, to little or no avail.
“I had two cortisone shots in my hip, in a two week span — didn’t work! And before that, i had stem cell injections….i was doing stem cell injections in my hip, every 3 months. You know, it was working, but after a while — it quit working.” Mo would continue, “But i tell you this — that THC (Tetrahydrocannabinol) and that CBD (Cannabidiol) work; i know that.”
Revealing the first interaction and source of his new found pain remedies, Mo would recall: “I really thought my fight with Quinton [Jackson] would be my last fight, cos my hip was that bad. And my boy was like…….my boy, Ryan Martinez was like — ‘Mo, I know your hip hurts, I’ma’ mail you somethin’.’ So he mailed my somethin’, like a brownie, you know what i’m sayin’? He’s like — ‘just take a little piece of it; eat it.’ WELL ME, being hard — you know — I thought I was hard, you know, i’ma’ eat half of it — I ate half of it. Ate half of it, man I was gone; I was done. But you know one thing…..I didn’t like how I felt, because I ate too much of it. But one thing i noticed was — I couldn’t feel my hip; the pain was gone. I slept good! Ya know what i’m sayin’? I-I-I just felt good, i felt relaxed. I wasn’t hight strung, i wasn’t irritable — I was miserable man…..What? 8 years MISERABLE, in pain. Now it’s different, when I started eating marijuna, and smokin’ a little bit here-and-there; takin’ them CBD drops — man’ it cut my pain down by: 75% bro.”
Even though Mo had finally found a solution to eliviate the pain from his hip, Mo would find himself being removed from two high profile scheduled BellatorMMA bouts in 2017 (Vs. Ryan Bader: Bellator 180 | Vs. Liam McGeary: Bellator 185), sourcing the undisclosed hip injury as cause.
Those two missed bouts in 2017 haven’t dampened Mo’s optimistic mood, even declaring: ‘This is a different person people are dealing with’ — reffering to himself as an opponent to the rest of the BellatorMMA Heavyweight Grand Prix participants.
So what does that mean for Mo’s opening BellatorMMA Heavyweight Grand Prix opponent: Bellator LightHeavyweight Champion — Ryan Bader?
“I’m’ beatin’ Bader; I’m gonna beat Bader, i’ma’ handle him; I’m not gonna even worry about Bader, [inaudable] — i’ma’ handle him.” Mo declared when quizzed by James Lynch as to what he’s more excited for: ‘The fact that you’re in this Heavyweight Tournament, or the fact that you’re facing Ryan Bader — who you were suppose to fight last year’.
Mo would leave one decloration of intent during his BellatorMMA Heavyweight Grand Prix Statement: “I’m healthy. That makes things different! Just for that reason, i’ma’ win the tournament”.
Watch the full interview with Muhammed “King Mo” Lawal — conducted by James Lynch for Terphouse.
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