Mikey Musumeci is a rising BJJ and grappling GOAT. Everything he seems to touch at this moment turns to gold.
Mikey signed to ONE Championship this year and has already cemented his name by beating one of the greats, Masakazu Imanari. This particular fight earned him $50,000 as the fight of the night. Mikey has now made Singapore his home.
On September 30, he fought against Cleber Sousa for the flyweight grappling championship belt. Mikey went on to win via decision due to the number of submission attempts throughout the fight.
Mikey took to Instagram to send a friendly invite to anyone from the Sambo community in his pursuit to be the best of the best.
In the video, Mikey says:
Mikey Musumeci Makes Call Out
”There’s a funny quote from Khabib, he said, ”If Sambo was easy, it would be called jiu-jitsu”. So let’s have the Sambo guys compete with the jiu-jitsu people. Let me fight the top world champion, of my weight class in Sambo and let’s see which is superior in the submission grappling format.”
Mikey went onto explain:
”There are two different types of Sambo to my knowledge. One that is combat and amazing for mma and the other is without strikes. I would assume we can consider the Sambo without strikes a type of submission grappling just like jiu jitsu. That is what I am referring to. I say in this interview it would be so cool to experiance the best Sambo athlete because I have no clue what to expect, so it would be super exciting. Never would disrespect Sambo! Obviously combat Sambo might be the best to translate to mma more than jiu jitsu! I am referring to submission grappling and the non combat Sambo 🙂 ”
Featured image credits to Mikey Musumeci Instagram
