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“I cry a little bit always. I’m a crybaby sometimes.”
Gegard Mousasi suffered his first defeat in over three years at Bellator 223, losing his middleweight title to Rafael Lovato Jr. in the main event at London’s SSE Arena.
Rather than credit his opponent for the win, however, the usually soft-spoken Mousasi accused Lovato Jr. of using performance-enhancing drugs to gain an unfair advantage.
“I should have won this match even with him using PEDs,” Mousasi said on Vechtersbazen Podcast last month. “I told the commission that it’s clear that he was on PEDs. (The commissioner) gave me a pat on the shoulder and told me that he was going to get tested on fight day and walked away.”
Mousasi has come under fire for his accusatory comments towards Lovato and, speaking to MMA Junkie in a recent interview, ‘The Dreamcatcher’ admitted to being a ‘crybaby’ in defeat.
“I’ve done always comments about losing to certain opponents,” Mousasi said. “I cry a little bit always. I’m a crybaby sometimes. Like Uriah Hall, I said ‘lucky.’ It was not lucky, but it got me the rematch. Machida, I said he cheated. I felt like he did. You can be honest about certain people. It is what it is. Machida, I lost because he was better. I’m a realistic guy. Lovato, I said it before. I don’t think I need to repeat it. People say I’m a bad loser. Whatever.”
The 33-year-old MMA veteran and former multi-promotion champ will look to spring back into the winners column, however, in his upcoming rematch with Lyoto Machida at Bellator 228.
Mousasi dropped a unanimous decision to Machida back in 2014, under the UFC banner, but the Iranian-born talent says he has learned from his mistakes and plans to go out and give it his all in the rematch.
“He was a lot better than me [at the time of the first fight], but I learned,” he said. “Sometimes with me, when I’m mentally there, I put flawless victories like ‘Mortal Kombat.’ I look really good. I look unbeatable. Like Rory (MacDonald), (Rafael) Carvalho, I beat them easy. We won Round 1 in a couple minutes. Machida, had a difficult fight with him.
“I know when I’m not in it, I f**k it up. This fight I’m in it. We’re going to go, and we’re going to fight him. We’re going to leave it all out there. If he’s better, he wins. I’m not going to cry about it. I’m going to go out and give it all.”
Bellator 228, which will feature Machida vs. Mousasi in the co-main event, is scheduled to take place later this year, September 28 at The Forum in Inglewood, California.