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Last updated on December 3, 2024.

Gegard Mousasi, is a Dutch mixed martial artist and former kickboxer, currently competing in Bellator MMA, where he is the former two-time Bellator Middleweight Champion. As of June 28, 2022, he is #6 in the Bellator men's pound-for-pound rankings and #1 in the Bellator Middleweight Rankings. He is also the former DREAM Light Heavyweight Champion, former DREAM Middleweight Champion, former Cage Warriors World Middleweight Champion, and the former Strikeforce Light Heavyweight Champion, thus making Mousasi an overall six-time MMA world champion. At the moment of his departure from the UFC in July 2017, he was #4 in the official UFC middleweight rankings, and he is currently ranked the #7 Middleweight MMA fighter and the #9 pound-for-pound fighter in the world by Fight Matrix.

Dutch - Mixed Martial Artist | Born: August 1, 1985

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I really like Robert De Niro.

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I've fought Jacare twice, it's not a fight people want to see.

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I'd rather have no nickname, but with my style, you can't really put a name on it.

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I've fought for different organisations, different titles, from all around the world.

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I made my money with good investments, I'm going to make maybe $1 million a year just with my real estate.

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I would beat Michael Bisping. I would jab his face the whole night. Easy.

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The more fights I have the more relaxed I get in cage or ring. It's all about experience. It's something that I try to do because I fight better when I am relaxed.

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I don't like nicknames, to be honest.

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Beating a guy like Bader, that's a big thing.

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My goal was never to be the best. I always wanted to make my money, and, of course, I always wanted to win my fight. Because if you keep winning, people got to say 'yeah, he is the best middleweight.' But to be honest I don't care.

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There are four seasons in Iran, so you can go winter skiing, you can go in summer to the beach... it's not a real tourism place, but it's a nice country if you have family and friends to visit there.

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I'm a solid fighter.

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I've seen so many fighters getting knocked out.

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I am one of the best, I should get paid like one of the best.

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Normally for me, it's not interesting. When do you see in the jungle, female fighters fighting each other? I mean it's not human nature.

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I'm fighting to get paid. I'm not doing this because I love the sport so much. I'm not a crazy person.

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I've been training my whole life with southpaws. It's annoying to fight a guy who's a southpaw, but nothing that I haven't see.

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I could beat Yoel Romero, who is probably more dangerous than someone like Anderson Silva, but I would get more credit for beating Silva.

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With me, somehow because I've been fighting outside the UFC, I still have to prove myself.

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As a fighter, you want fair treatment.

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I watch the comedy shows like 'Married With Children,' 'Friends,' 'Family Guy,' and 'Everybody Loves Raymond.'

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When you lose, you learn a lot more.

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People are stupid, what can I say. They don't know who's a real fighter or not.

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I have a lot of nicknames. They called me Kingo in Japan, they called me the Young Vagabond, but that sounds bad, then Soldier of Fortune, now they call me the Dream Catcher.

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When you constantly claim you are the best, people start to believe that. I see that happen a lot. You can convince a lot of people by talking, even if that has nothing to do with your actual performances. But that's not my thing.

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People always say I'm a bad loser.

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I like all kinds of music artists like Akon. I even listen to Lady Gaga.

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I cannot come and suddenly put on a persona. Like, I cannot be Mike Tyson. When you saw him it was raw, it was intense, 'I want to hurt you.' But now everybody tries it. I don't enjoy that. It's not real.

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The UFC has too many rules, it doesn't make it better.

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People always talk. People say rude stuff. It bothers you but I'm not losing sleep on it. I don't care.

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Fighting is not my life.

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The UFC focuses on entertainment, but that's not what fighting is about. It is not a concert.

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After doing boxing a little bit, I knew that I wanted to achieve what the other boxers were achieving: the championship and whatever comes with the championships.

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I always thought I would be a boxing champion.

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I don't want to tell sad stories about myself. We may not have had a lot to spend when I grew up, but my childhood was good. The public likes to hear a dramatic story. They want a star to rise, have a meltdown and then return to greatness. Very American.

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I'd rather have the underdog position than the favorite because I've been the underdog for a long time. I don't mind fighting that way.

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I won the belt in DREAM, I won the belt in Strikeforce, every fight was just a fight, it wasn't something special, it just was getting in the ring and fighting.

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I think with fighting you have to have a desire to achieve something. You never see a rich kid get to the top of any combat sport because they don't have the drive. All the great boxers come from the ghetto. They all had nothing. They have the desire, the hunger but the rich kid is not going to get punched in the face. Why would they?

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I don't like watching the females fight. It's just not attractive for me, but not like in a looks way.

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When I was an amateur, I would go to knock guys out in the first minute. When you get experience, you know it doesn't work like that.

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I can fight in Japan, I can fight in Europe, I can fight in U.S. How am I not marketable? I speak English.

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I know I'm underrated.

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Just pay my what I'm worth. I'm a fair guy, I'm not asking more than what I'm worth.

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My dad would take me to judo a few times a week. I got all these things that I was able to do once we were set up in Holland. Everything was taken care of. I think Holland is a country that takes care of their people - one of the best countries in the world.

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Iranian people are very hospitable, very family-oriented and besides that they have a very beautiful country.

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I want to be healthy when I quit, and I want to quit while I'm on my top. A lot of fighters continue because probably they need the money. My goal was invest, get out of the game healthy and secure. I feel like that's a real champion. Not someone who gave it all in the ring, and then at the end of his life, they don't have anything.

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I talk bad about Uriah Hall all the time but I don't dislike the guy.

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Whenever I've felt that there was a lot of pressure on me. I perform at my best.

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I defeated Dan Henderson, he's making tons more money than me. I defeated Mark Hunt. How is it possible Mark Hunt is making $800,000 with a record of 10-10?

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In Bellator, I feel like I can grow. As the fighters grow, I know the company will grow. You feel like a part of the company.

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It's an advantage for me fighting in Japan. I'm familiar there. I have friends there. I've been fighting so long there.

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Emotion works against you. The less emotion, the more you use your brain and fight smart.

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People just see what they want to see.

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At 15, I went to boxing. That's when I really wanted to be a champion, so that gave me a goal in life, so it kept me focused on training instead of other things.

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Mentally, it's good for me to fight in Japan.

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I was born in Iran, my parents are Armenian. We fled from Iran to the Netherlands when I was eight years old. We had a lot of family and friends in Iran, so it was hard to leave, especially for my parents. But we managed to settle well in the Netherlands, after a year in refugee camps. But I understood it was a process.

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I have losses to Machida and Lovato, and I'm going to avenge them both.

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My goal is to get the belt, the UFC belt.

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Luke Rockhold is the guy I want to face.

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Men have to stay strong. 'They fight, it's normal. Females don't have that instinct.

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