{"id":445463,"date":"2022-05-05T01:04:35","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T08:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=445463"},"modified":"2022-05-05T01:07:24","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T08:07:24","slug":"yoel-romero-has-one-stipulation-for-a-potential-fight-with-bellator-champion-gerard-mousasi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bellator\/yoel-romero-has-one-stipulation-for-a-potential-fight-with-bellator-champion-gerard-mousasi\/","title":{"rendered":"Yoel Romero has one stipulation for a potential fight with Bellator champion Gegard Mousasi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yoel Romero is interested in taking on Gegard Mousasi in Bellator &#8211; but only if the middleweight championship is on the line.<\/p>\n<p>While he may be on a four-fight losing streak, Yoel Romero still seems to be one of the most popular figures in mixed martial arts. This weekend, he&#8217;ll return to the Bellator cage in Paris for his second appearance with the promotion as <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bellator\/yoel-romero-receives-new-opponent-for-bellator-280-after-melvin-manhoef-suffers-injury-while-apprehending-three-burglars\/\">he takes on<\/a> Alex Polizzi.<\/p>\n<p>The bout will take place at light heavyweight but as we know, the best work of Romero&#8217;s career took place at 185 pounds in the UFC.<\/p>\n<p>With Gegard Mousasi currently holding the strap in that division over in Bellator, Romero has made it clear that he&#8217;d be open to heading back down there for a shot at the gold.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CYVNNlnB6TR\/<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cMousasi is a great fight,\u201d Romero\u00a0said. \u201cEvery MMA fan wants to see us fight due to the trajectory in our careers. At this moment, at 205, it doesn\u2019t interest me very much. I would love to face him at 185.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cIt has nothing to do with anything personal against Mousasi. It has everything to do with what he has,\u201d Romero said. \u201cIf he jumps to 205, he\u2019s not gonna have what I desire, so it\u2019s in the interest of all the fans and myself. So I believe the fight would be better for 185.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>Quotes via <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/2022\/05\/bellator-yoel-romero-would-fight-gegard-mousasi-middleweight-title\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMA Junkie<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p><em>Will we ever see Gegard Mousasi defend his strap against Yoel Romero?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yoel Romero is interested in taking on Gegard Mousasi in Bellator &#8211; but only if the middleweight championship is on the line. While he may be on a four-fight losing streak, Yoel Romero still seems to be one of the most popular figures in mixed martial arts. This weekend, he&#8217;ll return to the Bellator cage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54478,"featured_media":376529,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[44,10349,10179],"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>Yoel Romero has one stipulation for a potential fight with Bellator champion Gegard Mousasi | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Yoel Romero is interested in taking on Gegard Mousasi in Bellator - but only if the middleweight championship is on the line.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bellator\/yoel-romero-has-one-stipulation-for-a-potential-fight-with-bellator-champion-gerard-mousasi\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Yoel Romero has one stipulation for a potential fight with Bellator champion Gegard Mousasi | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Yoel Romero is interested in taking on Gegard Mousasi in Bellator - 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