Mikey Musumeci is in Singapore and able to accomplish a crucial job this weekend: eat some pizza. But earlier than he does that, the person referred to as ‘Darth Rigatoni’ has one other crucial job forward of him.
At ONE on Prime Video 2, Musumeci will enter the circle for the second time in what would be the largest match of his profession to date.
Mikey Musumeci will face Brazilian grappler Cleber Sousa in U.S. primetime to crown the very first ONE flyweight submission grappling world champion. Ready to grab the second, Mikey Musumeci revealed on the ONE on Prime Video 2 press convention that he has not taken a single day off within the final three months.
“I’m here in Singapore to do two things – do jiu-jitsu and eat pizza. And pizza places don’t open till after the match. So I’m here to do jiu-jitsu with Cleber, he’s amazing. I worked so hard in preparation for this match and I’m so ready. I haven’t taken one day off in like three months, so I’m so ready for this match.”
In his first ONE Championship look, the New Jersey native earned a formidable submission of grappling icon Masakazu Imanari, scoring a submission in simply over 4 minutes.
The five-time IBJJF world champion has 58 profession victories on the earth of submission grappling. He’ll search for win quantity 59 on September 30.
Mikey Musumeci believes ONE Championship submission grappling guidelines carry out the very best in opponents
Always innovating, ONE Championship reintroduced the world to submission grappling contained in the circle on the promotion’s Tenth-anniversary occasion ONE X. Since then, the promotion has signed a slew of unbelievable submission grappling superstars and has developed a rule set that encourages submissions over survival.
Sharing his ideas on the ONE Championship rule set, Mikey Musumeci mentioned:
“It’s just a pure battle of two guys trying to kill each other with submissions. I feel like this format will bring out the best version of Cleber. And it should bring out the best version of me because it’s just pure attacking.”
The largest distinction between ONE Championship’s submission grappling versus what you’ll see in a typical BJJ competitors is the emphasis on submissions and submission makes an attempt.
Inside the Circle, submission grappling matches may have a single 12-minute spherical with the one solution to win being by the use of faucet or nap. However, if no submission happens by the top of the time restrict, the competitor with probably the most submission makes an attempt might be awarded the victory.
No factors. No choices. The man who places his opponent in probably the most hazard walks out the winner.
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