Grappling sensation Mikey Musumeci shocked the fight sports activities neighborhood when he signed a landmark take care of Final Preventing Championship (UFC) late final month. Their budding partnership is anticipated to be the primary of many high-profile collaborations for the promotion’s jiu jitsu takeover.
Along with bringing “stability” and “ethics” to the game, Musumeci is hoping UFC may also help clear up the competitors, which has lengthy been overshadowed by means of performance-enhancing medicine (PEDs). Gordon Ryan, widely-considered the best no-gi grappler in historical past, isn’t any stranger to steroid accusations.
“I really feel like numerous jiu-jitsu proper now may be very unstable,” Musumeci mentioned throughout this week’s media day. “There’s numerous horrible ethics, morals, and I hope now that with the UFC we will change that and make it knowledgeable sport. As a result of it hasn’t been knowledgeable sport, jiu-jitsu, with individuals they blatantly use [steroids]. They’re not athletes. They actually don’t have the values of martial artists. I actually simply need to change that and provides us this platform at UFC and change into professionals.”
“UFC’s knowledgeable firm. The best way we’ve been in jiu-jitsu, we’ve been amateurs,” Musumeci continued. “We actually are simply on this barbaric newbie part of jiu-jitsu. Now UFC is beginning one thing skilled. We’d like drug testing. Utterly make Darwinism with the individuals on steroids that both have to only get off they usually both die or they adapt. Then the subsequent technology realizes they’ll’t simply begin steroids after they’re like 10 years previous. I need to change that. That may give me probably the most success.”
Ryan was fast to reply on Instagram, blasting the “little rat” for his phony ethical floor and perpetual disappointment, which “King” suggests are quietly masking Musumeci’s worry of shedding in high-profile competitions like Abu Dhabi Fight Membership (ADCC).
“The man speaking about ethics and morals has been on 37 totally different jiu jitsu groups, received what he might from them, and left,” Ryan fired again. “You wanna have my [expletive] in your mouth continually and discuss morals? How about begin with loyalty. This little rat’s been on extra groups than Keenan. Taking what he needs and when he can’t be taught anymore, leaves to the subsequent. Get off your ethical excessive floor, dork. This man is speaking about dishonest. Steroids are authorized in each competitors minus particular IBJJF competitions since 2019. It’s not dishonest. All I hear is an excuse for why you might by no means do what others, particularly I, have executed.”
“Then, he’s going off about psychological fortitude, the identical rooster sh*t that posts as soon as each few months about his psychological well being and the way unhappy he’s and the way he can’t deal with individuals speaking shit to him,” Ryan continued. “And the identical man who received invited to ADCC greater than anybody who’s ever competed, and didn’t even compete as a result of he’s afraid he can’t win in that ruleset. Made up some B.S. excuses and pulled out each time. All these [expletive] suckers have my identify of their [mouth] talking from some ethical excessive floor, but can’t even do probably the most basic items within the sport, like keep loyal to those that introduced you up. It’s spectacular.”
Musumeci will compete in his first match underneath the UFC banner when he collides with longtime veteran Felipe Machado. Their headlining affair tops the UFC Combat Cross Invitational 9 (UFC FPI 9) card TONIGHT (Thurs., Dec. 5, 2024) at APEX in Las Vegas.
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