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.