Rafael Lovato Jr. discusses his training regimen, his upcoming fight with John Salter at Bellator 198, and his prediction for the upcoming Bellator middleweight title fight between Rafael Carvalho and Gegard Mousasi at Bellator 200.
Rafael Lovato Jr. discusses his martial arts career and his long-awaited middleweight title challenge against Gegard Mousasi at Bellator 223 in London this Saturday.
Justin Rader is on a three-fight winning streak, and after becoming a world champion in jiu-jitsu, his career focus has shifted to MMA. At LFA 15, he is ready to add another win to his record.
When Legacy Fighting Alliance featherweight Justin “Darth” Rader stepped into the cage at LFA 15 just five weeks ago, he was looking for nothing other than to string together four wins in a row. The world jiu-jitsu champion has been competing long enough to know that he can’t look past an opponent.
After a three-round war on June 30, Rader picked up the win over Emmanuel Rivera.
“It was a good fight, an excellent fight for me to have, and I was very happy with the way it turned out,” Rader told Combat Press. “It was a good fight in the sense that I did a lot of things good, and it also showed me a lot of places where I still have work and refinement to do. I’ve been very diligently trying to refine as many of the mistakes from that last fight as I could, because, obviously, for my next fight, I need to put it together better than I ever have before.”