Gegard Mousasi left the UFC for Bellator on a five-fight win streak and was expected to dispatch former Bellator middleweight champ Alexander Shlemenko with violence at his promotion debut on Friday. However, the reason you have a fight is because you don’t know what’s going to happen. Early in the first ‘The Dreamcatcher’ caught a clean left from ‘Storm’ and it broke Mousasi’s orbital bone, causing him to employ a defensive, wrestling-heavy style thereafter. Mousasi got the win, but the fans didn’t get the destruction and destroy they had anticipated, leading to howls on the Internet.

Mousasi appeared recently on Ariel Helwani’s The MMA Hour and was asked if he was happy with his Bellator debut. Gegard is one of the best fighters in the world, and one of the most forthright.

No, not at all, said Mousasi as transcribed by Alexander K. Lee for MMA Fighting. But he punched me right in the eye in the first minute so I was fighting on instinct, trying to survive, I was fighting with one eye for almost three rounds so it didn’t go the way I wanted, but a win is a win. To the haters, they can suck it.

I have a pretty long one, they can all get in line and suck it.

I’m trying to survive, I cannot see anything. Yesterday, I was walking in New York, I was stumbling. I couldn’t even walk. I fought three rounds. I don’t know what people are talking about. Maybe they should go instead and fight in the cage. They’re sitting behind the computer eating potatoes and they have all their opinions, but let them do that.

I was nervous a little bit. I was nervous more than probably a lot actually, because there was pressure on me going to Bellator. This is an opportunity for the idiots to complain now and that’s what this is all about. The people sitting at home, waiting for something to go wrong so they can judge, so they can say stupid s***. They don’t have any respect.

I watched Donald ‘Cowboy’ Cerrone lose and he doesn’t get as much s*** as I get. They talk about I lost to Uriah Hall and I lost to ‘Jacare’, but both of those guys I have a win over also. So every time they go back and they always discuss if I’m a good fighter or a bad fighter, after 50 fights, I think I’ve proven that I’m a good fighter. What are they talking about? But you can’t fix stupid.

I’m not pissed off. I don’t care. I’m going to eat lobster. I’m going to sit in my farm, drive a tractor and my car. Who cares about these guys? I made my money. I have a better life than all of these bums.

Bellator middleweight champion Rafael Carvalho fights Alessio Sakara on December 9. Mousasi is likely to get a title shot at the winner.

If I win my next fight, they’re all going to forget the last one, he said. That’s how the memory of these idiots work. They have short memory. They’re like goldfish or something.

They all can suck it. Take a line, take a ticket. I have enough for you all.