The topic came up after his most recent title-defense at UFC BJJ 5 and after winning yet another high-profile match by submission, Mikey Musumeci was asked directly about the possibility of moving to MMA in the future:
“I’m doing it like in the next few months, like we’ll announce soon but I’m doing an MMA fight. So immediately after this I get back to training, working more for MMA. But yeah, we’ll see. You might see me in UFC MMA in the near future as well.”
Naturally the questions arose again when Musumeci signed with the UFC, and he said he still had a ‘desire to maybe do MMA again in the future’. Now Musumeci has spent more than a year with the biggest combat sports promotion in the world and has become the face of UFC BJJ as their most dominant champion. He’s also had more opportunities to train with elite MMA fighters through the UFC too, so his MMA skills must be developing even further. Although he didn’t set a date on his MMA debut, the UFC would undoubtedly love to be able to promote one of their BJJ champions on the main show.
The full post- match interview where Mikey Musumeci revealed that he plans on making his MMA debut was uploaded to the official YouTube channel of UFC BJJ:
