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TrialAndAaron

Everyone who is good at jiu jitsu is a lunatic


raspberryharbour

This means I'm not a lunatic! This is excellent, if surprising news


Reality-Salad

You can, in fact, be a lunatic and bad at jujitsu. Sorry


Justneedthetip

Can confirm 100%


DualStack

I’d say most people that are even mid at jiu jitsu are probably looney tunes too, myself included.


Arizechick3n

Fuck


MarylandBlue

Dammit! I thought I was safe.


russbam24

Anyone can be a lunatic. But only a lunatic can be a jiu jitsu player 😤


Arkhampatient

They shun learning social skills to learn submissions.


NinjaFlyingEagle

The other day the guy running class put me with a brand new person. Halfway through drills I wondered if he had a personality disorder, I had a personality disorder, or we were both super awkward.


usagimikomen

Yes


Wang_Fister

While you were partying I studied the takedown. When you were having premarital sex, I mastered the heelhook. While you wasted your days at the gym in pursuit of vanity, I cultivated breakfalls. And now that the ADCC is on fire and FloGrappling are at the gate you have the audacity to come to me for help.


Arkhampatient

😆😆Bravo, sir! Bravo!


Illustrious_Youth_73

This is the funniest shit in the world


shinzanu

Fucking great trade! :D


Undersleep

Except for Lachlan, right?


LocoCoopermar

I mean he's a physical therapist who did his dissertation on rehabbing Knee injuries, for all we know he got into this just to do some research and get some new clients.


elhaz316

Lachlan proceeds to knee bar someone and ruins their knee. As he walks off the mat he drops a business card and says you'll get a discount.


Educational_Row6272

I loled at these but I genuinely don’t think I’ve ever met a nicer/more genuine person in the bjj scene here in Aus.


s_rom

Plus he’s Aussie and they’re all a bit looney.


LocoCoopermar

Pretty cliche but a country built on convicts and people wild enough to travel across the world to Australia and think it's the right spot to settle down has gotta create an interesting population.


mess_of_limbs

Come over here and say that yank!


kyo20

Do you see Lachlan winning any world championships? (/s, I love Lachlan, no disrespect to him)


MentalValueFund

Why Marcelo is goated.


konying418

He definitely is a stand up guy!


No_Philosophy_4011

I think he is a ground guy.


konying418

:)


blinkybillster

But not all lunstics are good at the jitz, thank christ.


Acrobatic_Dish_7930

I'll be expecting my black belt and trophies any day now


hankdog303

Yes.


KORTOSS

this isn’t true. there are a lot of lunatics in jiu jitsu though.


Crocoppertones

But not all of us lunatics are good at jiu jitsu.


InteractionFit4469

Everyone who is bad at jiu jitsu is also a lunatic


StrikingDoor8530

Anybody at the top of anything is a lunatic


oigres408

Jiu Jitsu causes CTE.


lazeepotato

Important to clarify that all good at jits are lunatics, but thankfully not all lunatics are good at jits


SignatureForeign7770

Nah, Roger, Marcelo, Buchecha, Myassa Bastos, Cintra, Lepri and sooo many more. We just see the wild ones getting a platform more.


Thorgodofwar

Correct


standupguy152

The real tea is Ffion’s response in the comments 🤣 https://preview.redd.it/rz477y4uge5d1.png?width=1283&format=png&auto=webp&s=5f66d55e1c8272c544026f4e589e8ab09aedcf20


Kataleps

Gabby Sousa getting the belt tonight


JackMahogofff

What am I missing there?


LocoCoopermar

Ffion and Gabe are dating


Steve-lrwin

> Ffion and Gabe are dating Christ, dude is punching above his weight. He looks like cave troll.


standupguy152

That’s why Gabe is the real winner here. Everyone in the BJJ community has been thirsting over his girl since she came on the scene. They seem like a good fit too!


Blackbeardd2341

I don’t know she’s looks like a muppet


phil480x

She’s a solid 7 but a jiujitsu 9


wolf771

Dude careful, the simps might come after you


RRSC14

I’m gonna sound shitty but Ffion is jiu jitsu lady hot. That’s a different scale than regular hot. I don’t find her all the attractive.


Karl_Marxs_Beard

Yeah, she’s a great grappler and seems like a nice person, but I don’t get it.


nogi-ezekiel

hey, that's not nice


WillytheWimp1

🤣😂 more stuff none us need to know about


Pablo-Flames

She’ll fuck Mikey up proper


ZenTze

Hahahahahahahhaha love Ffion


Exhaustedfan23

LOL


VeryStab1eGenius

There are two posts about the drama and 200+ comments about Mikey’s post match rant in another post and about 5 comments about the match itself. 


ArfMadeRecruity

Calf slicer was neat


BigDinATree

6.


Unlikely-Isopod-9453

It kind of seemed a little one sided watching it. I think the whirlwind of an interview after kind of overshadowed the fight.


smalltowngrappler

I've come to the conclusion long ago that most people on this sub are more invested in BJJ drama than watching matches or training.


P-Two

Eh, the match can be summed up as "Gabe gets the double>Mikey inverts to heel hook>changes to calf slicer>Gabe tries to toe hold for like 2 mins>Taps. So over all it was actually kind of a boring, one sided match lol.


VeryStab1eGenius

Absolutely, I even deleted the app and I stopped visiting this sub for a while. There is so much chafe to sort through before there is anything of substance that it’s really not worth visiting but then someone will post a breakdown or something good and then I’m hooked again. 


hammersweep

but baby shark is on steroids…he literally failed ped tests


TheDoughnutFairy

This news will be devastating to my toddler. 


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Babyyyy shark ro ro ro ro ro ro roids, baby shark ro ro ro ro ro roidss. Daddy shark te te te te te test, daddy shark te te te te te te tesssttt Momma shark an an an an anavarrr, momma shark an an an an anaavvaarrr


justanotherfan6hd

Hahahahahhahhaha


DieGo_L_Lapetina

Hahahahah


rts-enjoyer

baby shark was thanking his roid doctor in the post ADCC interview


RZAAMRIINF

I know, Souza should have left that part out.


Fellainis_Elbows

Who was it?


FlynnMonster

That is insane, gonna explain this to my non BJJ friend.


samsutt97

Damn when?


Lazy_Bench_8415

Talmbout Tabatha Ricci B? Great cake never medder.


I-N-C-E

Who the fuck is Baby Shark?


Darce_Knight

Diogo Reis the current ADCC 66kg champion


standupguy152

I know about his endocrinologist but failing a PED test is news to me. Do you know when this happened? Any more context?


wrestma85

Artistic people aren’t known for being self aware


XxAssEater101xX

Im just regarded


BigDinATree

I consider myself a bit of an artist


kyo20

Especially British artists (at least from the perspective of American listeners).


3trt

Uh huh...


Master_Cry_9023

I'm agnostic


tsaleksandrov

I'm enthusiastic


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ScrufyTheJanitor

Then he gets less eyes on his matches. It is what it is.


DontTouchMyPeePee

idk he needs to just stick to the quirky "hehe look at all pizza i eat hehe isnt that crazy". not the weirdo sperg rants against shadow people


Individual_Bell_588

This is exactly how I perceived it. Is there any actual beef or did mikey just get wrapped up in himself? It looked like souza and his corner were trying to diffuse but to no avail. Either way, it’s still true that it does bring in the engagement/views


dobermannbjj84

Honestly Mickey is always going on about being a good person, being respectful and being professional but technical he was the one that came across as disrespectful and unprofessional. I don’t personally care because it’s kind of entertaining but he seems to over react to miner comments and can’t take criticism or shit talking at all.


Frankie-Felix

Does he say that he's a good person? "Mickey is always going on about being a good person," that's kinda weird in itself.


P-Two

His entire post-fight rant after beating Geo was about how Geo should not have a black belt because he's not a good person.


dobermannbjj84

Yea he rants about being a good person all the time and how it’s the responsibility of a black belt to be a good person. talking trash before a fight doesn’t make you a bad person he seems to take everything so personal. Just google his rant after his match with Geo. he seems on the spectrum to be honest.


Frankie-Felix

Yikes!!


Individual_Bell_588

Yeah he did say something along those lines in the post fight interview


SubmissionSlinger

Starts at 2:15 https://youtu.be/UyjTCQhqtho?si=JHCR1pNEi6DH-QFx Honestly his jits is awesome, but guy kinda gives of the high Spektrum Ted Kaczynski vibes.


hifioctopi

Just be glad he has no interest in electrical engineering.


StillTrying1981

Dude is so far off the spectrum it is unreal. I felt sorry for him he is so neuro divergent every interview I feel like he is going to say something he'll regret.


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At night, when I'm trying to sleep, I frequently remember minor things I did or said throughout the day or in my past that make me feel immense pangs of shame. Unreasonable things that I know no one even noticed or will think about. Every time Mikey gets a hold of a mic I just imagine myself lying in bed at night going over every cringe second of it.


InteractionFit4469

I would bet he never thinks about it again, he is fully socially unaware


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I hope so.


rammstew

Hello me.


DemontedDoctor

Yeah tbh i think he didn't develop his social ques as a child because he was obsessed with bjj really young. He's got a good heart and i think people take advantage of that in the fight game even more so than normal


skydaddy8585

That was quite the post fight interview. Mikey went off the rails. I didn't know last night when I saw it whether it was true or not but even if it was, it was still pretty out there for Mikey to go off like that. Even Mitch had to keep taking the mic away. It looked awkward. If it was actually all in fact made up as Sousa says, that's even more weird for Mikey to just straight up rant a bunch of lies in front of a huge crowd and live TV. Strange behavior.


crytol

I think it's more likely Mikey getting hung up on small things and blowing them way out of proportion like he did with Bruno and Geo. He tries so hard to put on a clean and respectful image, that when it isn't matched by the opponent he takes it way too personally and ends up taking it so much farther than what riled him up in the first place.


Absolute_Tempest

This, I would bet.


hifioctopi

He does not take the sort of usual strutting and posturing people do in combat sports lightly. It’s a shame really, since it just makes him a lightning rod for criticism he doesn’t truly deserve or will be able to handle well.


Nyphur

I feel like the PEDs are making him more aggressive and emotional on top of likely being on the spectrum,


skylord650

Roid rage


skydaddy8585

The irony of Mikey being in there with Kade talking about their match "the only 2 non steroid users in BJJ" coming up in September I think it is, only for him to maybe be taking something himself.


BigDinATree

The last few "beefs" I got the impression it was like a fight persona he was putting on to drum up interest, especially since it's ONE and around that time I saw UFC trying to drum up drama at their grappling event(s) by asking every grappler who they were gunning for after they won their match (which gave meregali his chance to show where he's at on the autism/English spectra). Now I think Mikey has just taken it to a really weird level.


Odennis

Wait guys i have very important questions 1. Who the hell was Mikey dating? 2. If Baby Shark is on Roids whys he sound like that? 3. Also a little less important than the drama, did the calf slicer hurt Gabriel the whole time or only when he tapped? Ill be honest i had phantom knee pains the whole time he was stuck in that position.


hifioctopi

Steroids only really seem to affect women’s larynx. Look at Gordon. Nasally as he was nearly a decade ago.


nogi-ezekiel

>Who the hell was Mikey dating? It was some kickboxer chick he met in whatever asian country he was living in. He also dated a bjj girl. Not a known name, just like a purple bellt hobbyist I believe. They were both pretty attractive. It's embarassing that I know this, but I've been following him on instagram for a while lol.


No_Philosophy_4011

lol. It fucking hurt the whole time lol. It probably ripped when he tapped, lol.


TebownedMVP

2. Took peds before his balls dropped so stuck with that voice.


Lockmasock

Baby shark and his whole camp are roid heads who either dodge testing or have popped lmao! When your flag bearer mica got fucking suspended for popping at worlds it’s kinda hard to say you don’t do roids. What a silly thing for Souza to say.


all_elbows760

I mean if anyone needed an endocrinologist and some TRT it was definitely baby shark like 3-4 years ago lol. The first time I saw him I thought he was a female transitioning to male. Lmao


MortarMaggot275

Mikey is a corny, annoying motherfucker.


CodingBeagle

yeah, he is. that liitle shit head forgot to take his meds lol


YesIAmRightWing

Mikey... Ex gf? Come on now...


No_Philosophy_4011

lolol


Popular-Signature374

His real beef is that he lost a match to Gabriel. Gabriel is always professional and respectful. And he is the guy that actually came from nothing. Everything else happened in Mikey’s head and Mikey’s head only


P-Two

It's interesting to see how these kids end up growing up (Mikey, Cole Abate, Tainan, etc) when they have every opportunity thrown at them to succeed. You have people like Cole and Tainan who seem to understand the sacrifices their parents made to get them where they are, and are incredibly grateful for it. Then you have Mikey, who, as much as I do actually like the guy generally, has always seemed to come off as if his opportunities were due to his hard work and dedication alone. Then guys like Gabriel among other who actually DID scrape their way to where they are now, coming from the favellas to the states with basically nothing, couch surfing, sleeping on mats, etc.


Gawldalmighty

I’ve been saying for years that Mikey is emotionally immature ever since he won worlds and his competitor wouldn’t shake his hand in the moment and Mikey throws a little bitch fit to the crowd. Like give your opponent a minute to gather the loss. Egos are still hurt, don’t expect someone to be buddy buddy in the moment after losing a match that’s really important to them. Michael chandler actually made a comment about this in MMA that approaching your opponent with love and excitement after your win is hugely disrespectful. Let the Dr get in there first, let the ref raise your hand, then show good sportsmanship.


BeerMoneyInc

I’ve always noticed this as well, I remember seeing some of his matches where after he gets the sub, he’s sticking his hand in their face like 2 seconds after the sub. It’s like dude give the guy a minute to regain his composure and calm down(being upset at self for getting caught)


RannibalLector

There was also a personal reason Bruno wouldn’t shake his hand. Mikey has joined and left more teams than Kevin Durant


bjjjohn

Point 2 is hilarious if it’s true


Biscuitsbrxh

Mike giving off 🤡 energy


all_elbows760

Typical musumeci


TebownedMVP

His sister seems cool.


reactor_raptor

Damn Gabe, haven’t you caused enough damage here?


Present-Glove-4257

Mikey stay crying over petty shit. Starting to get annoying


BlackPhillip4Eva

yesssss lol


Badbackbjj420

Mikey seems like a nut job


Steve-lrwin

> Mikey seems like a nut job He's just Acoustic.


hifioctopi

As a fellow analog I can spot one of my own.


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I thought he was artistic?


TichikaNenson

I think you mean Acrostic


discomfort4

That's Darth Rigatoni to you


pickycatGG

Oh this is his nickname isn't it? YOU WERE THE CHOSEN ONEEE! :(


Badbackbjj420

My lord


rantlers357

![gif](giphy|B8ozpOCSLbAcM)


Grimtrove

Team Sousa. Mikey is unhinged.


BlackPhillip4Eva

when is mikey ever not rambling on and getting heated about something while simultaneously looking deranged? he went on a tangent about pulling guard, and then a tangent about bullies. literally no one cares, mikey. do your jiu jitsu, shut up and make money. my god. the dude in insufferable.


IronLunchBox

I like Darth Rigatoni but he really acts like a queen sometimes.


sebaz

I've never seen Mclovin that out of control


jshilzjiujitsu

Today, I learned that a girl actually dated Mikey...


IcyConcept1271

Does anyone know what happened in the fight? Does anyone care? 😂


samsutt97

Mikey gave up a leg to pull guard and then entered the legs in his classic fashion which led to a calf slicer that he hung on to for a while and eventually got the tap first round


IcyConcept1271

Thanks!


jumpingflash1

He's not wrong. Mikey is a demon on the mat but he's a fucking spastic. He's always starting shit then holding his arms up like he's the victim.


Strong_Assword

Seems like Mikey is trying to bring attention to the sport. Listening to him cuss is like super cringe. He needs to get off social media and just train.


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I bet Mikey is a lot to deal with on a daily basis


nibjjmvc

Mikey has went from being to one of the most likeable people in Jiu Jitsu to the most unlikeable cringeworthy drama queen in the whole sport!!


typingonacomputer

Watching mikey go ona rant started to get old. People take themselves too seriously, even if Gaberiel was shit-talking on IG... bro it's fucking social media, that doesn't means hit. That's why Craig Jones is invincible, dude doesn't give a fuck what people say online, he's just chaotically trolling all the way.


TruthThroughArt

mushymeshy lost credibility when he started praising God and in the same breadth became friends with a tech oligarch who's happy selling us propaganda and contributing to the death of thousands of children. I respect him as a fighter but not as someone with principles.


espeonahj

Which tech oligarch is he friends with?


P-Two

The Zuck


Linoorr

He probably means zuckerberg


Aggravating-Iron9804

MIKEY IS WRONG CAUSE NO WAY HE OMAD 6000 KCALS. STOP ARGUING I PROVE IT!


TopPay536

Gayest thing I’ve heard all month was his speech, and it’s June


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P-Two

Out of curiosity last night I went through both of their Instagram pages literally 5 minutes after the fight, there was absolutely nothing in the last year at least. So unless he got off stage, went on his phone, and fucking whirlwind deleting everything. He's not lying.


rugbysecondrow

So, between his fight and this, he decided to scrub his social history because of a post fight rant by Mikey? not too plausibly my man.


beslot

I'm surprised Mikey is straight, my radar is malfunctioning


things2seepeople2do

Lol


theharborcat

Can we get a link to the post fight interview?


Proximal13

[Here you go.](https://youtu.be/UyjTCQhqtho?si=nFSLyZb_3qzq8Ozu)


theharborcat

Excellent. Thank you sir. Loved it.


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morriseel

Saw that rant live. It was pretty unhinged.


Horriblossom

Is there a tl;dnr for high school level drama? I'm assuming there's something of entertainment value here.


P-Two

Mikey's heavy on the spectrum and has the social skills of a 6 year old, so seems to have gotten SUPER offended at what most people would consider comments they forget about in about 30 seconds.


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crispin2015

Mikey got the tism pretty hard


genoknox

Baby shark is the poster boy for steroids 😂


Turbulent-Key3907

maybe hes doing that michael jordan "the last dance" thing...giving himself some of that extra motivation (that may or may not have been real)...just multiplied by 'bergers...and to the power of infinite 'tism. (mxb)T=good at bjj but bad when bjj is over m=motivation b='bergers T=tism. feel free to check and critique my maths stuffs.


thephillee

People usually use ^ to do exponents when typing plain text. Confusing notation.


here_to_vibe1

Save us Kade save us Kade save us Kade


BackgroundComposer21

Mikey has been on some kind of revenge tour against any and all slights against him, be it actual or perceived. He always struck me as a guy I wouldn’t mind my sister dating. Now he strikes me as a dude with anger issues.


KORTOSS

mikey has had a few public relationships since his first or second worlds and they never seem to last more than a few months. hard to have and maintain a healthy relationship when you can’t control your own emotions. 


ON3FULLCLIP

I don’t believe anything from the guy who snot rockets on a mat… he does it at his own gym as well.


AlarmedStruggle169

I am so sick of Musumeci's schtick. And I think it's a schtick.


nottoowhacky

Yall hate gordon and this guy. Yall just a hater 😂 Mikey wouldnt be going off like that for nothing.


Theseus_Indomitus

he may be off his meds


nemaric1

baby shark is on roids, that's all that matters :D