{"id":319825,"date":"2019-07-19T06:36:44","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T13:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=319825"},"modified":"2019-07-19T06:36:44","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T13:36:44","slug":"gegard-mousasi-responds-to-fans-calling-him-a-bad-loser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bellator\/gegard-mousasi-responds-to-fans-calling-him-a-bad-loser\/","title":{"rendered":"Gegard Mousasi responds to fans calling him ‘a bad loser’"},"content":{"rendered":"

In late June, Gegard Mousasi surrendered the Bellator middleweight title to Rafael Lovato Jr., losing via majority decision. Shortly after this defeat, Mousasi accused his foe of performance-enhancing drug use.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI should have won this match even with him using PEDs,\u201d Mousasi said on Vechtersbazen Podcast. “I told the commission that it\u2019s 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unsurprisingly, these comments from Gegard Mousasi \u2014 which did not provide much in the way of evidence to support this incendiary accusation \u2014 did not go over particularly well with fight fans.<\/p>\n

Speaking to MMA Junkie<\/a> on Wednesday, the former champion responded to the fan backlash he received after making these comments.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve done always comments about losing to certain opponents,\u201d Mousasi said. \u201cI cry a little bit always. I\u2019m a crybaby sometimes. Like Uriah Hall, I said \u2018lucky.\u2019 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\u2019m a realistic guy. Lovato, I said it before. I don\u2019t think I need to repeat it. People say I\u2019m a bad loser. Whatever.\u201d<\/p>\n

The good news for Gegard Mousasi is that he’ll soon have the opportunity to move past his loss to Lovato Jr., as he’s scheduled to rematch a big name in Lyoto Machida on September 28. He says he’s ready to put forth a great performance against the former UFC light heavyweight champion, who he lost to by decision in 2014.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was a lot better than me [at the time of the first fight], but I learned,\u201d Mousasi said. \u201cSometimes with me, when I\u2019m mentally there, I put flawless victories like \u2018Mortal Kombat.\u2019 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.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know when I\u2019m not in it, I f**k it up. This fight I\u2019m in it. We\u2019re going to go, and we\u2019re going to fight him. We\u2019re going to leave it all out there. If he\u2019s better, he wins. I\u2019m not going to cry about it. I\u2019m going to go out and give it all.\u201d<\/p>\n

What do you think of these remarks from Gegard Mousasi?<\/p>\n

This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i>BJPENN.COM<\/i><\/span><\/a>\u00a0on 7\/19\/2019. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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