Mousasi: Lovato Jr. Was On Monkey Steroids When We Fought

Stan Szeto-USA TODAY Sports

After Bellator 228, the often reserved Gegard Mousasi ripped into Rafael Lovato Jr, the man who took his middleweight title.

Gegard Mousasi got back into the win column on Saturday night against Lyoto Machida, earning a split decision win and putting himself back in position to regain his Bellator middleweight championship belt.

He lost that back in June to Rafael Lovato Jr. in a pretty big upset … Lovato was a +300 dog, but managed to get a majority decision win. The often reserved Mousasi was feeling pretty good following his win at the Bellator 228 post-fight press conference, and he let Moose loose on Lovato.

“Next fight I’m going to kill him,” Mousasi declared. “I swear to God if I don’t knock him out, I don’t count it as victory. Because I know what I can do and he will die, literally. You will see. I will knock him out 100 percent. I guarantee you that. If I lose it, I’ll retire. I’ll promise you. I’m not kidding, because I’m not trying to sell a fight. I know what I can do.”

Mousasi’s upset because he’s convinced Lovato uses steroids, and without USADA testing we have to believe our eyes. Here’s what Gegard sees.

”That guy looked like a horse,” he said. “You guys are reporters but you don’t even report on that. You can see a difference between a picture of him, and then he looks muscular when he’s 35. You guys can watch. You guys report on that. Take a picture, put it next to each other. It’s day and night difference.”

”It’s not even a little bit steroids, they’re like monkey steroids. You guys check it out, I can post pictures for you guys if you want. But I’m not a reporter, you should go do some research. Everyone knows he’s on steroids, but people call me a bad loser. Maybe I am a little bit. But I should have beat him anyway. My head wasn’t in it. I hurt him in the third round, I hurt him in the fourth round. I f**ked up myself so I’m blaming myself. But the juice helped him also.”

Mousasi had previously sent one of these ‘suspicious’ photos of Lovato to Scott Coker. Take a look:

Later in the press conference, another reporter asked Mousasi “If [Lovato] looked like a horse, did he … feel … like a horse?”

”Well he looked twice as big at the weigh in,” Mousasi replied. “His nipples were hard like a woman. Go watch it! I’m not kidding, I’m not trying to be funny, or something about this. His nipples were twice as – he could have given milk to babies.”

A rematch between the two seems like it’d be something to witness … so long as Bellator is okay with all the steroid accusations being thrown around. Drug testing is handled by the commissions, and 99% of the time consists of nothing more than a urine sample on fight weekend. Not exactly the hardest system to cheat. Would Mousasi demand extra testing if there was a rematch? And is that something Bellator even wants to offer?