Lawler is set to face Khamzat Chimaev in the co-main event of Friday\u2019s wrestling event at Fontainebleau. Following Lawler and Chimaev\u2019s section of the press conference, Arman Tsarukyan and Dillon Danis went back-and-forth when it was their turn. Eventually, Danis showed off his shirt that read \u201cKhamzat is my bitch,\u201d featuring a photo of Chimaev without a beard, which stemmed from their post-match brawl at RAF 10 in June.<\/p>\n
Tsarukyan then went after Danis, and all hell broke loose, with Lawler\u2019s opponent Chimaev getting involved.<\/p>\n
Shortly after the viral moment, Lawler shared his reaction with MMA Fighting, and he didn\u2019t seem impressed.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is what it is,\u201d Lawler told MMA Fighting. \u201cIt\u2019s just, I\u2019m here to wrestle and compete. I\u2019m just keeping my life simple and I\u2019m not trying to get involved in any of that nonsense.\u201d<\/p>\n
A former UFC welterweight champion and one of the most exciting fighters in MMA history, Lawler has seen it all at this point.<\/p>\n
After a follow-up comment, Lawler dove a little deeper on how he felt about how things went down, and hopes that fighters\u2014and combat sports athletes in general\u2014can act more professional during these events.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just, you want to put your best foot forward and a lot of kids are watching this, guys who are excited about wrestling\u201d Lawler said. \u201cIt\u2019s not always about the show and it\u2019s not about the eyes. It\u2019s about freaking having this sport be built and taking it to another level.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I just think we need to do a better job as competitors.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lawler is set to face Khamzat Chimaev in the co-main event of Friday\u2019s wrestling event at Fontainebleau. Following…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":937713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,214253,214254,85,14855],"class_list":["post-937712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-raf-wrestling","tag-raf-wrestling-news","tag-sports","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=937712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/937713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}