“Gordon Ryan’s 1 Year Older Then Me… How Is That Possible!?” Mikey Musumeci Talks Ryan’s Physique

“Gordon Ryan is one year older than me. He looks like he’s 40,” Musumeci said. “Are we one year apart? How is that possible? All the guys who are on steroids, their bodies age like 20 years. Long term, I can compete for another 20 years if I wanted to and you could compete for another so many years.

“We get to enjoy the sport so much longer because we don’t abuse our bodies. And we beat all those guys who take [steroids] anyway so it doesn’t matter. We just have to work harder and be more technical.”

Musumeci also claimed that steroid use is so common in BJJ that some of the biggest gyms in the world are encouraging their teenage students to get on the juice.

“Now the problem in jiu-jitsu is you have kids taking it,” Musumeci added. “12 and 13 year olds… I don’t know if in MMA it’s this bad, but in jiu-jitsu, it’s in kid programs, the biggest teams in the world have kids taking steroids and people know, but they ignore it. They just turn their back to it. That’s something that we have to change in jiu-jitsu as we become a bigger sport.”

Mikey Musumeci still expected to compete at oNE 168: Denver Despite Kade Ruotolo’s Withdrawal

Musuemci was scheduled to return to the ONE Championship Circle this Friday when the promotion heads back to Denver for a loaded ONE 168, but his scheduled opponent, current ONE lightweight submission grappling world champion Kade Ruotolo, was forced to bow out of the bout after suffering injuries while competing in the Under 80kg tournament at the inaugural Craig Jones Invitational last month.

It was another big blow for the event which had already lost ONE atomweight MMA world champion Stamp Fairtex earlier this year. Originally, Stamp was scheduled to face strawweight queen Xiong Jing Nan at the event in a bid to become a two-division titleholder.

Though no official announcements have been made, journalist Nicolas Atkin recently reported that Musumeci is still headed to ‘The Mile High City’ as a replacement opponent has been found.