{"id":8210,"date":"2025-09-01T09:06:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T07:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/senegal\/2025\/09\/01\/you-have-to-embody-the-status-meet-modou-lo-king-of-senegals-wrestling-scene\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T09:06:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T07:06:51","slug":"you-have-to-embody-the-status-meet-modou-lo-king-of-senegals-wrestling-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/senegal\/2025\/09\/01\/you-have-to-embody-the-status-meet-modou-lo-king-of-senegals-wrestling-scene\/","title":{"rendered":"&lsquo;You Have to Embody the Status&rsquo; &#8211; Meet Modou L\u00f4, King of Senegal&rsquo;s Wrestling Scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>[RFI] For nearly six years, wrestler Modou L\u00f4 has reigned as the undisputed \u00ab\u00a0king of the arena\u00a0\u00bb in Senegal &#8211; a title that carries more weight than any footballing accolade in the country. Ahead of his blockbuster bout with Sa Thi\u00e8s in April next year, he talks to RFI about mysticism, MMA, politics and who he believes will inherit his crown.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[RFI] For nearly six years, wrestler Modou L\u00f4 has reigned as the undisputed \u00ab\u00a0king of the arena\u00a0\u00bb in Senegal &#8211; a title that carries more weight than any footballing accolade in the country. Ahead of his blockbuster bout with Sa Thi\u00e8s in April next year, he talks to RFI about mysticism, MMA, politics and who &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-8210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-headlines","tag-senegal","tag-sunugal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/senegal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8210"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/senegal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/senegal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/senegal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/senegal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/senegal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/senegal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/senegal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/senegal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}