After leaving ONE Championship, Mikey Musumeci signed a groundbreaking deal to compete in the UFC’s Fight Pass Invitational events – debuting on December 5, 2024, in Las Vegas against Felipe Machado.

And yes, while he remains committed to growing Jiu-Jitsu as a professional sport, Musumeci has also expressed interest in eventually transitioning to MMA.

Here is what he had to say about the topic in a conversation with MMA Fighting:

I have the desire to maybe do MMA again in the future.

I’m young, my body is very young.
I’ve never taken steroids, so my body is like 20, 21, actually.

I can have many more years of competition still.

However, for the time being, he is focused on helping improve BJJ grow as a sport – now as part of the UFC roster:

I want to help the sport of Jiu-Jitsu grow first. I have that obligation, this desire in my heart, to help out sport first.
And then I can do something crazy.

We’re trying to change the sport.
It all started with IBJJF, which was important, but now we can grow the sport to a more professional place for other people. This is my dream.

I have enough titles already, I don’t want more titles.
The only thing I want is to have an impact for the future generation, so they have an organization where they can make enough money.