Whatever Happened to Eddie Cummings? Catching Up With The Wolverine

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Eddie Cummings hasn’t competed since April of this year. Where did the noted leglock specialist go, and what has he been doing?

We went to New York to check in with “The Wolverine” at his home gym of Unity Jiu-Jitsu. This was just two weeks out from the 2019 ADCC World Championship, and he was training hard with his teammates Dillon Danis, Paulo and Joao Miyao, Junny Ocasio and others.

Interviewer:        Eddie Cummings, how you doing? It’s been a while, man.

Eddie Cummings:     It has been quite some time. I’ve been good. I’ve been, you know, settling into my new home for the past year or so, loving it here at Unity, training with all the guys, learning a lot from everyone. Murilo has been showing me a lot, been patient with me. Adapting to the intensity of training, maybe, that was still fun, still makes training, you know, it’s the hardest thing I’ll do all day, so that’s good. But yeah.

Interviewer:        We haven’t really seen much you of during this period. You were really active there for a couple of years, you know, EBI, ADCC, superfights, but you seem to have moved away from the comp scene for a little while. Can you tell us what’s going on?

Eddie Cummings:     Yeah, I mean, I think it’s definitely a combination of factors. You know, I’ve always personally been dealing with, you know, injuries and getting a little older, and that’s always a little taxing in the sense that I’m not always confident I can show up to a tournament.

Eddie Cummings:     And I know some older guys can get through it fine. They do great. I’m just not always confident in my body and sometimes that maybe gets in my head, so mostly focused on superfights and I’ve had some good offers that, you know, maybe didn’t work out logistically, and other maybe not so good offers or some fell through. And I did have a match last year that was maybe a little lackluster and maybe showed some of my rust. I wasn’t really happy with it.

Interviewer:        Do you find it hard to find opponents, though?

Eddie Cummings:     Yeah, I mean, look, it’s definitely hard to find, you know, opponents in the weight class that match up well that are sort of, so-to-speak, good matches, you know, like somebody at 145 who… not that a name necessarily matters about skill, but that, in terms of branding, I find that maybe I’ve made a mistake of competing with people who maybe weren’t as well known and didn’t have as much to lose, and the matches maybe get a little weird.