Following his loss to Phil Davis in the Bellator 154 main event, Muhammed Lawal said he isn’t quite sure just what MMA judges want to see.

He’s also heard the chirping from Tito Ortiz, who has mentioned being down for a fight with “King Mo” down the road. And while he said he’d take the fight, he doesn’t think it ever would come to fruition – and believes there’s a better option out there, anyway, for Ortiz: Quinton Jackson.

“He won’t fight me,” Lawal recently told MMAjunkie Radio. “I think he should fight Quinton. I’m still trying to get titles and get paid. (Ortiz is) just trying to get paid. I don’t know if Quinton’s trying to get titles, either. So he should fight Quinton, or fight Wanderlei (Silva) if Wanderlei can fight again (after his suspension). That’s a fight people want to see – Tito and Quinton. Let that fight happen.”

After his unanimous decision setback to Davis (16-3 MMA, 3-0 BMMA) in Bellator 154’s headliner, which took place at SAP Center in San Jose, Calif., with a main card on Spike following prelims on MMAjunkie, Lawal (19-5 MMA, 8-4 BMMA) had some minor surgery. So he may be sidelined for just a bit, anyway.

But even if he took the fight, Lawal doesn’t think Ortiz (18-12-1 MMA, 2-1 BMMA) would be likely to make it to the cage. The UFC Hall of Famer has long struggled with injury issues, including pulling out of a previously booked fight with “Rampage” Jackson (36-11 MMA, 3-0 BMMA) at Bellator 106, which would have marked his promotional debut.

“I think (Ortiz vs. Jackson) would do pretty good (with ratings),” Lawal said. “I don’t know how good the fight would be because who knows if Tito could be able to handle a training camp for Quinton. I know Quinton would show up because he’s a fighter. But I don’t know if Tito can handle the training camp.

“(I’d take the fight), but I’d tell them to have three backups ready because he probably wouldn’t be able to make it through the training camp.”

Jackson is booked for a main event at Bellator 157 against Satoshi Ishii next month. Ortiz lost to light heavyweight champ Liam McGeary in a title fight this past September and hasn’t been booked for his next fight.

Davis will become familiar with McGeary when he challenges him for the title after his win over Lawal, which came with a pair of 30-27 scores and a 29-28. But despite those numbers, Lawal believed after their bout he may have had it.

“I thought I won the fight,” he said. “I haven’t had a chance to watch it, but I know the people who watched it said it was close. I know a lot of people who said that they might have scored Phil’s kicks, but I didn’t feel any of his kicks. They were meant to keep me away. They didn’t do much damage. but I don’t know what the judges want. One week they want this, the next week they want this. There’s nothing really concrete as far as criteria. It is what it is.”

Either way, heading into the third round, Lawal said his cornermen from American Top Team told him there was a chance he had won the first two rounds. But just in case, he came out swinging.

“I (thought) I was up 2-0,” Lawal said. “‘Mo,’ you’re up 2-0, but you’re “Mo” and sometimes the judges may not like you. So go out there and just fight hard.’ I was in Robbie Lawler mode (in the third round). I was in kill mode. I was swinging for the fences and I was trying to hit him with everything I could. It’s a fight. There were a few times I came close.”

Instead, Davis hit Lawal with a right hand that took him off his feet, and he then pounced to keep him on the ground.

“Phil was talking all that noise: ‘I’m gonna come to fight – you better be there,'” Lawal said. “I knew he wasn’t gonna come to fight. He’s going to come to figure skate, in a sense. He’s going to skate around the side and I’m going to have to chase him down and land shots. That’s what I did, and in the third round I got over-confident, because we came out strong and I was like, ‘Let’s go.’

I was hitting him and I was like, ‘Let me set some traps for him,’ and I was backing up and he threw a jab and caught me with the right hand and then he took me down. That was kind of funny … that’s two strikes on me, because I didn’t want to give up anything as far as takedowns. I underestimated him because I didn’t think he’d actually commit to throwing anything because if you watch him, when he’s throwing, he’s already backing up or running away. He doesn’t commit to anything.”

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