Gordon Ryan felt like he didn’t have a alternative however to reply to Mikey Musumeci.
Throughout UFC 310 media day forward of his Combat Move Invitational grappling debut, Musumeci mentioned efficiency enhancing medicine are a serious challenge in jiu-jitsu, and that “99 p.c” of the game’s athletes are on them — together with Ryan.
Ryan issued a heated response, calling Musumeci a “dork,” and mentioned that steroids aren’t unlawful. Throughout a scrum on Saturday, Ryan defined his reasoning for clapping again at Musumeci.
“I wakened and he was simply attacking me,” Ryan mentioned. “I’ve educated with Mikey earlier than and we’ve all the time been good to 1 one other, and I really talked fairly positively about him on [The Joe Rogan Experience] once I was on there, and I’ve by no means had something in opposition to Mikey, however he all the time has my title in his rants about steroids and issues like that.
“He’ll say my title, then he’ll be like, ‘These guys aren’t athletes,’ or, ‘These guys are mentally weak,’ or regardless of the case is. So I let it go for some time and he simply stored on attacking me and attacking me, so I used to be like, ‘OK, if we’re going to play that recreation, let’s play that recreation.’”
Whereas Ryan doesn’t admire how Musumeci continues to go about saying there’s PED points in jiu-jitsu, he really does agree along with his fellow former ONE Championship competitor. It’s simply not the identical reasoning from Ryan’s perspective.
“The primary challenge proper now with taking efficiency enhancers out of jiu-jitsu is there’s not one governing physique in jiu-jitsu,” Ryan defined. “You or I might begin a jiu-jitsu match tomorrow and one in all us can have PEDs authorized, and one in all us might have PEDs unlawful.
“The issue is that if one group makes it in order that PEDs are unlawful, however then all the different organizations that you simply’re competing at all through the remainder of the 12 months say they’re authorized, now I’ve to be clear all year long to compete [for] your one group. However the remainder of the fellows who aren’t competing in your group can do steroids the full-year spherical. So then I’m competing in opposition to these guys pure, and within the different organizations, these are the fellows who’re utilizing PEDs.”
Ryan hopes issues within the jiu-jitsu world can get to a extra constant place as the game continues to rise in recognition.
Whether or not him and Musumeci will ever get on the identical web page once more is one factor, however each will possible get there if the group can get there.
“It must be one factor throughout the board,” Ryan mentioned. “They both have to be authorized throughout the board for all the massive tournaments, or they have to be unlawful as a result of then in the event that they’re unlawful for one however they’re authorized for the opposite, you’re simply going to have athletes that gained’t compete in these occasions. …
“If you happen to repair that and everybody agrees PEDs are authorized or PEDs are unlawful, then you may type of make some progress. However proper now, if just one, or two organizations do it, it’s probably not going to work.”
