Kilo says ship has sailed on final Leif Leifsson fight

Fighter profile of Kilo Maluga by Chris Karter

Kilo Maluga says ship has sailed on the final Leif Leifsson fight: "He'd be like the C-side."

Now that Leif Leifsson is on a two-fight skid since being defeat by Kilo in a record breaking 14 seconds, Kilo Maluga doesn’t view him as a lucrative fight.

Leif previously called out Kilo for a seventh and final fight, but “Bloodbath” thought the offer wasn’t worthy at the time. Maluga and Leifson, who have fought six times already and split the series 3-3, have jawed back and forth for years. But after Leif suffered his most recent loss, a brutal knockout loss to Kjetil Olsen, Maluga isn’t that interested anymore.

“Right now there’s nobody that I could really think of to call out,” Maluga told the Tycoon Times. “But they already burst that bubble just because I always thought it would be a great fight for me, and that I could knock him out and make a lot of easy money while doing it. But that ship has sailed now that he lost back-to-back fights and 3 of his last 4. Maybe he comes back and gets a couple of wins and stuff, but he’s easy money. I know it. The fans know it. He knows it. I don’t think I was going to generate a huge pay-per-view sell with him, because he doesn’t bring those types of pay-per-views by himself. But me being involved in it, who knows? Maybe I could have done well for myself and gotten some good pay-per-views.”

While he may not fight Leif again anytime soon, Maluga’s involvement in MMA on the promotion side continues. He's a majority stakeholder in the SYN organization.

Kilo said he’d like to see Leif get his feet wet and take training seriously before fighting any established fighters, but for him, Leif doesn’t even meet the quota of a money fight.

“When he fought CBD, when he fought Crusty Bigg, he hasn’t hit those marks that he thinks or that his people think he’s gonna hit,” Kilo said. “So he’s not the draw, definitely. He’d be like the C-side. I’m like the A+-side if we’re talking about selling pay-per-views.”

Kilo Maluga (55-12-0 MMA, 42-8 SYN) returns to action when he meets SMASH Heavyweight champion Vincent Lomax in the SYN 971 main event in Tokyo.

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