Mike Perry is set to face former UFC lightweight champion Eddie Alvarez in Bare Knuckle Boxing.
Perry is very confident coming into this clash. However, Alvarez believes Perry is making a mistake thinking he’s an easy fight. This fan favorite fight will be happening in Salt Lake City at BFKC 56 on December 2nd. This is a highly anticipated fight as many know they both like to brawl in their respective MMA fights and would be looking to bringing that same energy into this clash.
Mike Perry believes that both men will put on a good show for the fans but Alvarez is overmatched and Perry would make easy work.
“There’s only one way to win this fight, and that’s easy work, putting my knuckles on his face,” Perry told MMA Junkie Radio. “I just feel like he doesn’t know what he’s up against,”. “I don’t understand how he thinks his boxing form what he did with Chad is going to transfer against me.”
Eddie Alvarez Tells Mike Perry Not to Overlook Him
Eddie Alvarez, on the other side believes Mike Perry is overlooking him and the fight would much harder for both of them.
“He’s going to be tough, he’s going to be tough,” Alvarez said in the same interview. “The guy takes shots and keeps coming. I’m never going to call the guy easy work. I think that was silly to call me easy work, but we’ll see. Maybe that’s how he truly feels, considering his training regimen and who he’s going against and whatever.”
He continues;
“I don’t think he’s going to be easy work. I do see holes in his game and things I can exploit, and so do my coaches, obviously. We called for this fight, so I got what I wanted. Come December 2, we’re going to make it work. We’re going to exploit them holes, we’re going to do big things. This can go a whole different way, but I’m not by any means looking forward to an easy night. I don’t expect any of this shit to be easy.”
On paper, it might seem Perry has the advantages. Perry is the bigger man with mostly fighting at welterweight in the UFC. While, Eddie Alvarez fought in the lightweight division. Also, Perry has more bare knuckle experience with three and some other boxing experience when he left the MMA world. On the other hand, Alvarez made his debut on the same card as last time Mike Perry fought at BFKC where he faced Luke Rockhold. Alvarez defeated former UFC fighter Chad Mendez in his debut.
Alvarez doesn’t have the same amount of experience or size as Perry obviously but believes his past fights should be an indicator how it should go. They don’ call him The Underground King for nothing.
“He’s saying easy money, but he hasn’t had an easy fight besides Luke Rockhold,” Alvarez said. “And before them two, he lost a whole plethora of fights before them two. He hasn’t had an easy fight. I think he’s saying easy money because he wants an easy fight, but he hasn’t had an easy fight in a while. Besides Luke Rockhold, all his fights have been tough. He takes a lot of damage. He takes a lot of shots. They haven’t been easy.”
Quotes taken from MMA Junkie
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