Gegard Mousasi: ‘I feel the UFC is declining’

Gegard Mousasi was a high-level middleweight in the UFC, but was never able to secure a title shot there. After getting tired of it, he decided to move on to greener pastures - Bellator MMA. In just two fights in the organization, he is their middleweight champion and will facing off with Rory MacDonald in one of the bigger fights of 2018 at the end of this month.

On a conference call to hype Bellator 206, Mousasi was asked a few questions about his former employer and how it compares to the treatment he has received from Bellator. And Mousasi being Mousasi, he was very blunt in his assessment (transcribed by MMA Fighting):

“I feel the UFC is declining because they’re putting on bad cards,…