Mikey Musumeci is looking forward to his flyweight submission grappling match against Osamah Almarwai at ONE Championship, in May…
And he doesn’t just want to defend the flyweight title – but he’s also eager to put on a spectacular performance!

Why? Among other things, it’s because he feels that he needs to keep Jiu-Jitsu in the audience’s spotlight. So, he has to give them exciting matches.

Mikey revealed more in a recent interview for the Jiu-Jitsu Times:

I have a lot of pressure right now to keep Jiu-Jitsu on the ONE Championship platform. To do that, we need to keep these matches exciting.

If the matches are boring, and MMA fans are like: “What is that s**t?”, we’re screwed. So, we have to make these fights beautiful.

And that’s one of the reasons why he’s looking forward to the match against Almarwai… As both of them are hungry for the submission:

I feel like this match is so much more fun for me – that I can just focus on exciting Jiu-Jitsu.
I don’t have to worry about that anti-Jiu-Jitsu style. I can just have fun.

My favorite thing in the world is just doing Jiu-Jitsu. That anti-Jiu-Jitsu style, where I have to chase people around, that’s not fun at all.

But now I can have fun, and figure out new, cool things that I want to hit, and keep improving as a Jiu-Jitsu athlete.

 

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