UFC BJJ Says 'No Butt-Scooting' While Their Champion Is Literally Mikey Musumeci
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Claudia Gadelha went on record this week saying UFC BJJ doesn't want to see butt-scooting. "You can't be dragging your butt around inside the bowl," she said. "We don't want to see butt scooting. We want to see action, a lot of action inside the bowl."
Their bantamweight champion is Mikey Musumeci.
Mikey Musumeci. The five-time world champion whose entire game is built on pulling guard and attacking from bottom. The guy who publicly ranted that people complaining about butt-scooting are "just wasting time." The man who headlined UFC BJJ 1 and UFC BJJ 3. The face of the promotion. That Mikey Musumeci.
He just re-signed.
So to recap: UFC BJJ's official position is that they don't want guard pulling. Their most decorated champion, the athlete they built the promotion around, is one of the most famous guard pullers in the history of the sport. He defended his title at UFC BJJ 5 last month via foot lock -- a submission he got to from, you guessed it, his guard.
This is the same organization that produced UFC BJJ 6 two weeks ago -- eight matches, one submission, and an audience that looked like they'd been asked to watch paint grapple. Maybe the entertainment problem isn't athletes playing guard. Maybe it's that your format turns world-class grapplers into point-fighting accountants.
Here's what a casual sees: guy sits down, scoots forward, boring. Here's what's actually happening: Musumeci is inverting through passing sequences that black belts spend years trying to understand, hitting leg entanglements from angles that shouldn't be physically possible, and finishing submissions that most people can't even name. That's not boring. That's the highest level of the sport.
The butt-scooting debate is the BJJ equivalent of complaining that chess is boring because nobody's flipping the table. You're watching the wrong thing. But sure, ban guard pulling from your grappling promotion. See how that works out.
Tye Ruotolo called it "the Ultimate Scissoring Championship" last week. Gadelha's out here saying no butt-scooting. Meanwhile, Musumeci's just sitting in his guard, collecting title defenses, wondering what all the fuss is about.
Probably scooting while he does it.
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Sources
- Claudia Gadelha On What UFC BJJ Is Looking For: 'We Don't Want To See Butt-Scooting'
- Claudia Gadelha Outlines What It Takes To Get An Invite To UFC BJJ: No Butt Scooting
- Mikey Musumeci Makes Second UFC BJJ Title Defense at UFC BJJ 5
- Mikey Musumeci Fires Off On Complaints About Guard Pulling
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