Keenan and Gordon are kind of buddies, but have fought twice no-gi with Gordon holding two submission wins over Keenan. They’ve hung out and trained together, so there’s no beef there… but Keenan revealed on our podcast that his “evil side” is hoping that Gordon’s MMA plans lead to him getting messed up.

“I can’t wait to see Gordon Ryan to fight MMA, because he’s going to get knocked out eventually, and it’s going to be so satisfying,” he says. 

“All of the jiu-jitsu guys who go to MMA, eventually they’re going to get knocked out one day and it’s going to be funny to watch. But I say that because I know I’m not going to do MMA because I’d get knocked out too!” 

It’s nothing personal against Gordon (or is it?) but Keenan makes a good point in that’s it’s just a case of looking at the numbers. 

“It’s just the brutal reality of MMA. On a long enough timeline of fighting MMA, some one is going to catch you with something. You’re going to get knocked out in front of all your friends and family.” 

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