Mikey Musumeci is declaring warfare on the rampant use of PEDs in BJJ.
After establishing himself as top-of-the-line submission grapplers on the planet underneath the ONE Championship banner, ‘Darth Rigatoni’ ditched the Singapore-based promotion to signal with the UFC. It was a giant second for the jiu-jitsu group as Musumeci turned the primary grappler to ink an unique take care of Dana White and Co.
Now, Musumeci is making it his responsibility to scrub up the game he loves so dearly.
“I feel like what I’m doing right now is definitely the most important thing for grappling in terms of having a stable platform,” Musumeci mentioned on Wednesday throughout UFC 310 media day. “I really feel like loads of jiu-jitsu proper now may be very unstable. There’s loads of horrible ethics, morals, and I hope now that with the UFC we are able to change that and make it knowledgeable sport.
“Because it hasn’t been a professional sport, jiu-jitsu, with people they blatantly use [performance enhancing drugs]. They’re not athletes. They really don’t have the values of martial artists. I really just want to change that and give us this platform at UFC and become professionals” (h/t MMA Combating).
Musumeci kept away from naming names however hopes that he may also help the UFC develop the game of BJJ and herald different athletes who make it a precedence to compete clear and keep away from the very lengthy checklist of practitioners who attempt to take chemically-induced shortcuts.
“People not on steroids,” Musumeci mentioned emphatically when requested who the UFC ought to look to signal. “That’s pretty much what I would say but 99 percent of jiu-jitsu is on steroids. So at least them get off steroids a little bit, like a few months. They probably need like a year, six months to adjust and then maybe they could adjust with Darwinism.”
Mikey Musumeci sees signing with the UFC as his first step towards making BJJ nice
Other than making an attempt to extinguish extra of the seedy parts within the sport, Musumeci has loads of private targets he hopes to perform, together with a possible transition to blended martial arts.
After all, the New Jersey native has loads left to perform in jiu-jitsu, however Musumeci acknowledges that signing with the UFC is a giant first step in the direction of assembly these targets.
“They want to make this professional also,” Musumeci mentioned. “UFC’s a professional company. The way we’ve been in jiu-jitsu, we’ve been amateurs. We really are just in this barbaric amateur phase of jiu-jitsu. Now UFC is starting something professional. I’m so blessed for them for putting the effort into jiu-jitsu to change it. I’m so eager for them to do that.”
