Bellator middleweight champion Rafael Lovato, Jr., one of the greatest American jiu jitsu practitioners of all-time, revealed on Wednesday t
Sad news. Bellator middleweight champ Rafael Lovato Jr will be out indefinitely due to “cavernous malformations” in his brain.
Cavernous malformations, also known as cavernomas, are described by Johns Hopkins University to be “an abnormal cluster of capillaries and venules (tiny blood vessels) that periodically bleed and give rise to a “popcorn-like” lesion in the brain or spinal cord with very thin walls that contains blood of different ages.
Whether or not he ever fights again, I just hope he turns out all right.












