Mark Kerr Replaces Don Frye Versus Mo Lawal at M-1 Breakthrough
Fighters.com doesn’t blame über-prospect “King Mo” Muhammed Lawal (3-0), but the main event for M-1 Global Breakthrough just went from bad to worse. Forty-year old “Smashing Machine” Mark Kerr (14-10) will bring his four-fight losing streak into the ring in Kansas City 28 August to replace Lawal’s original opponent, forty-three year old former UFC champion “Predator” Don Frye (20-7-1).
Perhaps Frye is to blame? M-1 Global Chief Operating Officer Joost Raimond thinks so, saying Monday, “Don Frye had a signed contract with M-1 and part of that signed commitment allowed us to change the venue if needed. From our perspective, Don should still be in this fight. However, for reasons that we aren’t exactly sure of, he has backed out. Don still has not provided us with a clear reason as to why he is refusing to fight. It just doesn’t make sense because the old Don Frye was willing to fight anyone, anywhere, and at anytime. Perhaps the fire is gone and he underestimated the challenge that ‘King Mo’ presents?”
Ostentatious former NCAA wrestling champion “King Mo” won a unanimous decision over Pancrase veteran Ryo Kawamura (9-3-2) at Sengoku Seventh Battle in Tokyo last March. He’ll fight for the first time in his home nation at Breakthrough.
Kerr was tapped out in a rear naked choke by “Snowman” Jeff Monson (28-8) at Vengeance Fighting Championship in Concord, North Carolina last September. He’s 2-9 in the last nine years.
Lawal has the tools and charisma to fight to the top of the middleweight or light heavyweight divisions, but must seek fights versus other contemporary contenders even if it means smaller paydays now.
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A sad sad joke. They need a pension plan for these “out to pasture” fighters who are broke. That way they aren’t tempted to “come back” and make MMA look ridiculous. Again, the question is.. Who want to see Kerr or Frye fight? This is one of those fights you get up and get a sandwich for and don’t feel bad at all for missing.
I just don’t understand what Mo thinks it does for him to destroy these old guys. Mo isn’t a 20-year old prospect. He’s 28. While other guys like Jon Jones and Luiz Arthur Cane are in the UFC getting competitive fights three times per year and honing their skills, Mo is losing time to become the great fighter he reall could be.