Mike Perry has heard Jeremy Stephens name him out for a mega-fight in BKFC between two UFC veterans, however what Perry hears and what he sees look like two various things.
Stephens has been eyeing a combat with Perry since his stoppage win over Eddie Alvarez at KnuckleMania 5 in January, and even since signing for a return combat within the UFC at UFC Des Moines in Could, “Lil’ Heathen” continues to place that matchup out into the world.
The problem is, for Perry, what Stephens is asking for to be able to make it occur is ridiculous.
“These guys, man,” Perry instructed MMA Preventing. “These little guys wish to name me out and be like, ‘Lower right down to 165 or 170 kilos.’ Jeremy even mentioned it on the JAXXON podcast, he’s like, make him lower to 170, after which put the burden clauses on [so] that I can solely achieve 10 % after I weigh in. So which means I wouldn’t be allowed to recover from 190 after weighing in at 170 — if I may even make 170 after I simply had a combat, I attempted to make 200.
“I believe 185 is a superb weight class for me. There’s loads of motion at that weight class. If you need me to face a sure kind of striker, I want that weight underneath me to place the stress on them and hit them arduous with these little fingers, man, like I did to the opposite guys at 185. I imply, I took the naked the very best naked knuckle boxer there was previous to myself being Thiago Alves. He comes again for the combat after had a few naked knuckle [wins], however we had by no means seen anybody dominate him.
“Nobody did what I did to him. I beat Thiago and so they known as it at a minute, but it surely was 40 seconds he went down. One shot. One land in that bare-knuckle ring, and I put him down.”
Perry hasn’t competed since dropping a boxing match to Jake Paul this previous July, and hasn’t fought within the BKFC ring in nearly a yr when he destroyed Alves at KnuckleMania 4. The 33-year-old is undefeated for the promotion, and has turn out to be the game’s greatest star within the course of with wins over Alvarez, Alves, former UFC middleweight champ Luke Rockhold, and present UFC welterweight Michael Web page.
At present, Perry is sporting his promotional hat as he’s getting ready for Soiled Boxing 1 this Saturday in Miami. Whereas he’s busy with that, after all, Perry desires to arrange for a combat, and offered an replace.
“Yeah, my managers are talking with Dave,” Perry defined. “They’ve some concepts, It’s simply, at this degree, speaking the cash, we’re speaking. Anyone who faces me is about to receives a commission. Anyone I face, I’m about to receives a commission. So when the cash comes collectively like that, it takes time. They’re giving me ample time to arrange myself because the Jake Paul [boxing match] being the final combat. Didn’t go my means, or as I deliberate for it to go, and so they’re actually making me soak in my wounds to essentially get that starvation and drive that after I get my alternative to get again within the ring, I’ll compete to the very best of my talents.
“We wish to placed on a banger for the followers. It’s bought to be a reputation that is smart for the group, for the fan base, for my opponent, and for me. It’s nonetheless only a matter of time. [My manager has] been telling me we’re taking a look at Could and it hasn’t been introduced but, however up to now, it’s nonetheless we’re taking a look at Could. So let’s hope that it’s Could and ‘Platinum’ Mike Perry might be again quickly.”
At this level in his life and profession, Perry sees the worth he brings to the promotional desk, in addition to for the opponents he would face within the ring. “Platinum” is aware of every combat he’ll have for BKFC would generate a ton of curiosity, so why not shoot for the moon and hope to land on a star?
“I’d wish to face Jake Paul in Soiled Boxing, or Conor McGregor in bare-knuckle, or in Soiled Boxing,” Perry mentioned. “Persons are like, ‘Oh, you’re calling [for] the cash fights,’ however that’s the factor, I’m a cash combat. These guys who solely make $25,000 to combat, they’re calling me out. That’s positive. I get that. Solely guys who wish to combat me in bare-knuckle are the blokes who’re in bare-knuckle and their identify’s not shifting the needle.
“My combat, my subsequent combat, it is going to transfer the needle. Once they say ‘Platinum’ Mike Perry goes to get again within the ring, that needle will transfer on that evening. I’m being instructed by Feldman that this sure identify that we’re making an attempt to get, if it doesn’t work out with that identify, he’s going to get me somebody, one in all their guys. 185, let’s run it. Their champion at 185, Mike ‘the Marine’ Richmond [who is fighting Josh Dyer next], respect in your service, bro. However bare-knuckle, that’s my service. Let’s go.”
