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Mikey Musumeci joins ONE Championship
ONE Championship have been signing some big grappling talent as of late as Danielle Kelly (no relation) and Mikey Musumeci. Will they be competing in MMA? For now they are just grappling for the Asia’s flagship promotion and could potentially make their Mixed Martial Arts debut there. Garry Tonon has competed a number of times with the organization in the ONE FC cage six times and remains undefeated.
The CEO of ONE, Chatri Sityodtong announced the signing on his Instagram:
“Please join me in welcoming 5x Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu World Champion Mikey Musumeci to ONE! He reached out directly to me a year ago, asking if he could join the world’s largest stage of martial arts. Needless to say, I have been a big fan for awhile. What I love most about Mikey is that he is a good guy with a good heart, but he is an absolute monster with killer instincts when he competes. Arguably the greatest grappler of all time, Gordon Ryan, has also signed with ONE but has yet to compete under them due his ongoing stomach issues. He was meant to compete against Shinya Aoki last August but Gordon has been away for extended periods of time.
Welcome again to ONE, Mikey! #WeAreONE”
Lets take a look at some of Mikey’s stats:
Musumeci recieved his black belt back in 2015 (at the ripe old age of eighteen) from Jonatas Gurgel and Gilbert Burns. He has won an IBJJF World Championship at every rank from juvenile blue belt to black belt. He is also only one of four Americans to win a world title in his first year as a blackbelt, he did it again the following year and is now the only American with two black belt titles.
The 5X World Champion has also joined the Pedigo Submission Fighting Team under Heath Pedigo (or Daisy Fresh as the team is more commonly known) in Mt. Vernon Illinois. No stranger to new adventures, Mikey is looking to go everywhere and make the most of his BJJ career.
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UFC Vegas 91 – Results | Nicolau vs Perez
The UFC made their return to action last night, featuring a flyweight main event between top contender Matheus Nicolau and former title challenger Alex Perez.
For the full results, look no further!
Note: any point deductions will be denoted with an asterisk and explained at the bottom of the page.
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Main card (12am GMT+1 – TNT Sports)
(#8) Alex Perez defeats (#5) Matheus Nicolau via knockout (punches – 2:16 – R2) – flyweight bout
Bogdan Guskov defeats (#11) Ryan Spann via TKO (punches – 3:16 – R2) – light heavyweight bout
(#13) Karine Silva defeats (#12) Ariane da Silva via unanimous decision (30-27, 29-28, 29-28) – flyweight bout
Jhonata Diniz defeats Austen Lane via knockout (punches – 2:12 – R2) – heavyweight bout
David Onama defeats Jonathan Pearse via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28) – featherweight bout
Uros Medic defeats Tim Means via TKO (punches – 2:09 – R1) – welterweight bout
Prelims (9pm GMT+1 – TNT Sports/UFC Fight Pass)
Victor Henry defeats Rani Yahya via TKO (head kick and punches – 2:36 – R3) – bantamweight bout
Austin Hubbard defeats Michal Figlak via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28) – lightweight bout
Don’Tale Mayes defeats Caio Machado via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28) – heavyweight bout
Ketlen Souza defeats Marnic Mann via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27) – strawweight bout
Chris Padilla defeats James Llontop via submission (rear-naked-choke – 4:33 – R1) – lightweight bout
Ivana Petrovic defeats Liang Na via submission (arm triangle – 1:29 – R3) – flyweight bout
Maheshate Hayisaer defeats Gabriel Benitez via split decision (28-29, 29-28, 29-28) – lightweight bout
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STYLEBENDER PRAISES POATAN
It seems Alex Pereira is on a lot of minds of late. His former nemesis ‘Stylebender’ Israel Adesanya has been speaking about him this week and, rather surprisingly, heaped praise on the Brazilian.
The pair have shared an intense rivalry throughout their respective kickboxing and mixed martial arts careers, with Pereira beating Adesanya three times before ‘The Last Stylebender’ finally got the edge over ‘Poatan’ in their last meeting a year ago.
Pereira won their first meeting in the kickboxing ring by decision back in 2016 and then knocked out Adesanya in a rematch eleven months later.
He then finished Adesanya in the fifth round at UFC 281 to claim the middleweight title in only his sixth professional MMA bout, before Adesanya reclaimed the belt a few months later with a devastating right hook.
Adesanya went on to lose the belt to Sean Strickland and has since been on a self imposed sabbatical from the sport. He was an interested spectator as Pereira moved up to the light heavyweight division, before winning and then defending the belt in that division too.
Speaking with former UFC flyweight champion Demetrious Johnson on his YouTube channel this week, Adesanya had nothing but praise for Pereira, and insists the Brazilian brings out the best in him:
“He’s a special fighter” said Adesanya. “He’s a special human being. What he’s done in this game, in fighting, and for his life as well, I’ll always respect him. I’m grateful for those moments because, for me, it taught me so much about myself and where I can go”.
Despite losing the first three fights in their series, Adesanya insists the fights were closer than that record suggests:
“First fight in China, I thought I won. These casuals don’t. These plebs don’t. I thought I won. Even he thought I won until he got his hand raised. Second fight, I’m beating his ass and he gets me. Again in New Your (UFC 281) I’m beating him. Rocked him, took him down, held him down, beat him and he gets me…I just knew that I can beat this guy”.
With Adesanya rumoured to be coming back to challenge Dricus Du Plessis for the 185lb title, and Alex Pereira seemingly looking upwards toward the heavyweight division for his next challenge, it seems the pair are out of each other’s crosshairs…for now at least.
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JAMAHAL HILL WANTS REVENGE
Despite being just two weeks removed from his defeat to Alex Pereira in the main event at UFC 300, Jamahal Hill is climbing straight back on the horse and already has his next fight lined up. ‘Sweet Dreams’ is scheduled to face Khalil Roundtree Jr at UFC 303 on June 29th.
The card will be headlined by the long-awaited return of ‘The Notorious’ Conor McGregor, and Hill has elected to step straight back into fight camp rather than sit on the sidelines and recover from the devastating first round knockout he suffered at the hands of Pereira.
Rountree will be coming into this bout on a five-fight winning streak and has finished seven of his 9 UFC victories by knockout. Sitting at #8 in the UFC’s light heavyweight rankings, Rountree will surely see a victory over a former champion like Hill as a short cut to a title shot.
Given that Hill will likely have received a 60-day medical suspension from the Nevada State Athletic Commission, and there are only 77 days separating UFCs 300 and 303, there are certainly questions to be raised about the decision of Hill and his team to take this fight.
Hill explained in an interview with The Schmo that he sees the proximity of the two fights being a positive for his physical preparations, and that he is focused on avenging the loss to Pereira:
“I’m already in good shape” he explained. “I’m feeling good, heading into another camp just makes sense, I get to go into a camp in shape instead of going into camp off a layoff so I think that’ll be a huge plus and will help me go out and put on the performance I need to against Khalil Rountree to put myself back in position to get that Alex Pereira fight back.
“It’s about getting back to that fight, I want to fight Alex again just because of the narrative surrounding it ”
Hill originally won the 205lb title after defeating Pereira’s coach Glover Teixeira over five rounds at UFC 283 in January of 2023. He then ruptured his Achilles tendon last July and vacated the belt which Pereira won by beating Jiri Prochazka at UFC 295 in November.
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