{"id":326752,"date":"2019-09-30T12:49:41","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T19:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=326752"},"modified":"2019-09-30T12:49:41","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T19:49:41","slug":"gegard-mousasi-explains-why-he-believes-rafael-lovato-jr-is-on-steroids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bellator\/gegard-mousasi-explains-why-he-believes-rafael-lovato-jr-is-on-steroids\/","title":{"rendered":"Gegard Mousasi explains why he believes Rafael Lovato Jr. is on steroids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Gegard Mousasi, there is one telltale sign that gives away Bellator middleweight champ Rafael Lovato Jr.&#8217;s alleged PED-use use. The Iranian-Dutchman believes the middleweight&#8217;s nipples are dead giveaway.<\/p>\n<p>Mousasi once again lobbed some accusations in Lovato&#8217;s direction after Saturday&#8217;s Bellator 228 card, where he <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bellator\/photo-gegard-mousasi-and-lyoto-machida-share-moment-following-bellator-228\/\">defeated Lyoto Machida by decision<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat guy looked like a horse,\u201d Mousasi said post-fight (transcript via <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/2019\/09\/bellator-228-video-gegard-mousasi-hilarious-press-conference\">MMA Fighting<\/a>). \u201c[\u2026] That\u2019s not even a little bit of steroids. That\u2019s like monkey steroids. I don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Like he did in his rematch against Lyoto Machida, &#8216;The Dreamcatcher&#8217; wants to settle the score in a rematch against Rafael Lovato Jr., <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bellator\/gegard-mousasi-says-he-should-have-beaten-rafael-lovato-jr-even-with-him-using-peds\/\">who he lost to back in June<\/a>. Mousasi is adamant that Lovato Jr. is using performing-enhancing drugs and said he noticed something wasn&#8217;t right during their first weigh-ins.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, he looked twice as big at the weigh-in. His nipples were hard, like a woman,\u201d Mousasi said of Lovato. \u201cWatch it, I\u2019m not kidding. I\u2019m not trying to be funny or something. He could\u2019ve given milk to babies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnyway, I\u2019m in a good mood. Maybe I shouldn\u2019t talk that much.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mousasi has frequently condemned Lovato as a cheater and says he will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2019\/9\/29\/20889445\/gegard-mousasi-condemns-rafael-lovato-jr-as-a-cheater-promises-if-i-lose-the-rematch-ill-retire\">retire if he loses a rematch against him<\/a>. Lovato has yet to respond to these incendiary comments. At present, the Bellator middleweight champion has a squeaky clean drug testing record.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of these comments from Gegard Mousasi?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPENN.COM<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 9\/30\/2019.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Gegard Mousasi, there is one telltale sign that gives away Bellator middleweight champ Rafael Lovato Jr.&#8217;s alleged PED-use use. The Iranian-Dutchman believes the middleweight&#8217;s nipples are dead giveaway. Mousasi once again lobbed some accusations in Lovato&#8217;s direction after Saturday&#8217;s Bellator 228 card, where he defeated Lyoto Machida by decision. \u201cThat guy looked like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54472,"featured_media":292019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[44,10349,10087,39498],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Gegard Mousasi explains why he believes Rafael Lovato Jr. is on steroids | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former Bellator middleweight champion Gegard Mousasi explains why he believes the reigning champ Rafael Lovato is using steroids.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link 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