Mikey Musumeci is declaring warfare on the rampant use of PEDs in BJJ.
After establishing himself as probably the greatest submission grapplers on the planet beneath 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 grew to become the primary grappler to ink an unique cope with Dana White and Co.
Now, Musumeci is making it his responsibility to wash up the game he loves so dearly.
“I really feel like what I’m doing proper now could be positively a very powerful factor for grappling when it comes to having a steady platform,” Musumeci stated on Wednesday throughout UFC 310 media day. “I really feel like a whole lot of jiu-jitsu proper now may be very unstable. There’s a whole lot of horrible ethics, morals, and I hope now that with the UFC we are able to change that and make it an expert sport.
“As a result of it hasn’t been an expert sport, jiu-jitsu, with individuals they blatantly use [performance enhancing drugs]. They’re not athletes. They actually don’t have the values of martial artists. I actually simply wish to change that and provides us this platform at UFC and turn out to be professionals” (h/t MMA Preventing).
Musumeci shunned naming names however hopes that he will 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.
“Folks not on steroids,” Musumeci stated emphatically when requested who the UFC ought to look to signal. “That’s just about what I might say however 99 p.c of jiu-jitsu is on steroids. So no less than them get off steroids a little bit bit, like a couple of months. They most likely want like a 12 months, six months to regulate after which possibly they may regulate with Darwinism.”
Mikey Musumeci sees signing with the UFC as his first step towards making BJJ nice
Except for attempting to extinguish extra of the seedy components within the sport, Musumeci has a whole lot of private objectives he hopes to perform, together with a possible transition to combined martial arts.
After all, the New Jersey native has quite a bit left to perform in jiu-jitsu, however Musumeci acknowledges that signing with the UFC is a giant first step in direction of assembly these objectives.
“They wish to make this skilled additionally,” Musumeci stated. “UFC’s an expert firm. The way in which we’ve been in jiu-jitsu, we’ve been amateurs. We actually are simply on this barbaric newbie part of jiu-jitsu. Now UFC is beginning one thing skilled. I’m so blessed for them for placing the hassle into jiu-jitsu to vary it. I’m so anticipating them to try this.”
