Rafael Lovato Jr. accomplished his goal of becoming a champion in a major MMA promotion on Saturday, June 22, when he outworked Gegard Mousasi to win the Bellator middleweight title in the main event of Bellator Europe 3.
Lovato Jr. (10-0 MMA, 6-0 BMMA) implemented a grappling-heavy strategy to wear out Mousasi. Rafael is an accomplished BJJ competitor and one of the few grapplers that have been able to successfully apply their submission grappling tools in MMA.
As you can see in the tweet above, Lovato used a beautiful deep half guard technique in order to escape from the bottom and come on top.