Mike Perry Slams Jake Paul During First Face-Off – ‘You’ve Been Fighting Fat Cab Drivers’
Jake Paul and Mike Perry had their first face-off via a video link ahead of their July 20 clash.
Paul will face Perry after Mike Tyson pulled out with an inflamed ulcer. The Tyson fight will now take place on November 15, as all eyes are on Perry. The Problem Child has knocked out his last two opponents in the first round with wins over Andre August and Ryan Bourland. That continued his journey to eventually becoming a world champion. A fight with Perry is expected to be a formality.
Perry has only had one boxing fight in his career. He was knocked out in a 2015 clash against Kenneth McNeil. But his current form in the BKFC will give him lots of confidence. Perry is undefeated with a 5-0 record. He rejected the chance to fight Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. on the Paul-Tyson card because the purse was insufficient. A fight with Paul will earn him more money, giving him the chance to cause an upset. Both had plenty to say during their first interaction as they recalled their previous sparring session.
Paul Reacts
“What makes me good at fighting is I don’t like getting punched in the face and I practice not to. That’s what I’m going to teach you in the sport of boxing…This is not bare-knuckle. Not a bunch of old MMA fighters just running around punching each other bare-knuckle like some…hooligans. I’ll show you a real sport. I was still just learning boxing, probably in my second year of boxing.
“Worked him all five rounds when I was [at the gym] and now it’s going to be even crazier July 20. That’s why I know I’m going to be able to knock him out because I’m just a completely, completely different fighter. I already beat his ass in sparring and made him my son and he’s even admitting that. He’s saying he has a plan but we don’t believe it. We just don’t believe it and on July 20, I’m going to show the world the sparring session live. You know what happened. OK, Mike, you know what happened. I don’t need to sit here and talk about it,” Paul
Perry Responds
“First of all, it seems I hit him hard enough because he was ducking and running that whole six rounds. So it seems when I made him duck into my uppercut, he must have forgot that last round. Because he had an eight-round fight coming up and they told me after the fifth going into the sixth, ‘Hey Mike, this will be the last round.’
“Rounds 1 and 2, he hit me with a good sniper right hand. I smiled in his face and kept putting the pressure on him. The next four rounds was me smothering him and punching him in his face and making him duck into my uppercuts. So he must have forgot that sixth round. He quit on the sparring early because he knew where it was headed. Rounds 7 and 8, that’s where I’m looking to put him on the plate, put his head on the skillet.
“You’ve been fighting these cab drivers and these…fat [fighters]. You think that you’re going to do anything to a real…man like me, you lost your mind. If you punch me in my face, I will smile and hit you back multiple times. He’s tricked the world into thinking he’s fantastic. I’ve been doing this…a long time and I took the hard long road. I’m looking to show everybody what a real fighter is,” Perry
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