{"id":80712,"date":"2019-06-04T08:50:01","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T14:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=80712"},"modified":"2019-06-19T08:50:33","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T14:50:33","slug":"muhammad-lawal-set-to-hang-up-his-gloves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=80712","title":{"rendered":"Muhammad Lawal Set to Hang Up His Gloves"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>He has been on the circuit for 11 years but Muhammad Lawal has announced that he is retiring from the sport, and in fact, he has gone as he left on Monday. There will be many disappointed fans, but all good things must come to an end as bonusbets.com<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n

During his career, Lawal, also known as King Mo as fought 31 times and has become something of a legend. He is now 38 years old and cites his reasons for retiring now as primarily based on health concerns. He has been plagued with various issues and has been under the knife loads of times to repair damage to his hips and knees as well as other areas, so we can kind of understand where he is coming from.<\/p>\n

He started fighting in college where he was making quite a name for himself, which opened the door to MMA. In college, he was a Division I All-American and a Division II National Champion so you can understand why they were keen to take him to the next level. In MMA he quickly became a respected top-prospect fighter who lifted the Strikeforce light heavyweight champion title in his seventh professional fight against Gegard Mousasi.<\/p>\n

Speaking to MMAFighting, he explained the thinking behind his decision making. \u201cIt\u2019s been on my mind for a while. I just put it in the back of my head. It was the pain from the injuries that was messing me up and my lack of range of motion from my hip and my knee. I\u2019ve been fighting most of my career with no legs, a messed up knee or a messed up hip and after I had that hip surgery where they put titanium metal in my hip, it kind of made me think \u2014 I\u2019m going to need a knee replacement, I\u2019m going to need an elbow replacement, I\u2019m going to need a hip replacement. I was like I\u2019m getting old, I\u2019m 38, I\u2019ve got kids. I can\u2019t even run right now. I can\u2019t even jog really. I\u2019m that bad. It\u2019s to the point where if I can\u2019t jog or sprint or be explosive, then I\u2019ve got to stop.\u201d<\/p>\n

The injuries he sustained and the subsequent surgeries have certainly taken their toll and recovery has also been hard with a recent hip resurfacing leaving him struggling to get to his feet or bend to fasten his shoelaces. \u201cI had so many surgeries. Probably 30 or 40 surgeries. I remember the first time I had anesthesia when I had my ACL done, I went right to the movies and watched a movie after that. Now, as I\u2019ve gotten older when I get the anesthesia, I don\u2019t know where I\u2019m at. I look all jacked up. My last surgery, I was like this is my last surgery because my body don\u2019t act the same. \u201cWe know that fans will be sad to see him go, but it does seem like the right decision on a personal level, and we wish him all the best for his future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

He has been on the circuit for 11 years but Muhammad Lawal has announced that he is retiring from the sport, and in fact, he has gone as he left on Monday. There will be many disappointed fans, but all good things must come to an end as bonusbets.com reports. During his career, Lawal, also […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10374],"tags":[20225],"class_list":["post-80712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mma-2","tag-muhammad-lawal-set-to-hang-up-his-gloves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80712"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}