This Past Weekend - E399 Mike Perry

Episode Date: June 28, 2022

Mike Perry is an American professional mixed martial artist who competes in the Welterweight division of Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship. He has formerly competed for the Ultimate Fighting Championship. Mike and Theo discuss what brought him into bare knuckle fighting and how his mindset has changed over the years. They also talk about their childhood fights, the perils of Florida and what’s next for Platinum’s career.  ------------------------------------------------ Tour Dates! https://theovon.com/tour New Merch: https://www.theovonstore.com Podcastville mugs and prints available now at https://theovon.pixels.com ------------------------------------------------- Support our Sponsors: Blue Chew: Try BlueChew FREE when you use our promo code THEO at https://bluechew.com  BetterHelp: Go to https://betterhelp.com/THEO  to get 10% off your first month ShipStation: Go to https://shipstation.com  to get 60 days free with code THEO Babbel: Go to https://babbel.com/THEO  to save 60% off your subscription ------------------------------------------------- Music: "Shine" by Bishop Gunn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3A_coTcUek ------------------------------------------------ Submit your funny videos, TikToks, questions and topics you'd like to hear on the podcast to: [e-mail] Hit the Hotline: [phone] Video Hotline for Theo Upload here: http://www.theovon.com/fan-upload Send mail to: This Past Weekend 1906 Glen Echo Rd PO Box #159359 Nashville, TN 37215 ------------------------------------------------ Find Theo: Website: https://theovon.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/theovon Facebook: https://facebook.com/theovon Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thispastweekend Twitter: https://twitter.com/theovon YouTube: https://youtube.com/theovon Clips Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheoVonClips ------------------------------------------------ Producer: Isaac https://www.instagram.com/theisaacabrams/?hl=en Producer: Zach https://www.instagram.com/zachdpowers/ Producer: Colin https://instagram.com/colin_reinerSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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check out more at theovonstore.com today's guest is a gentleman that I've I've been enamored with for a while I've been wanting to meet this cat and just get us just see what he is and who he is I've always been a huge fan he's beloved by many he is a mixed martial artist he competed in the UFC for a long haul and he's currently fighting in welterweight in the bare knuckle fighting championships he's got a fight coming up in august and uh he joined us today right here on the tour bus so i'm grateful for his time mr platinum mike perry i've been singing bro thank you so much for coming man the dogs man with the the the the bullies from from uh

lesion that's it yeah we're out here man thank you so much bro i'm honestly i am so uh uh this is the most excited i've been in a long time i think man i really am i'm excited thank you for coming man thank you for having me bro it's a pleasure to meet you theo uh crazy guy so you know meeting a crazy guy yeah yeah i think we're different kinds of crazy huh i don't know man i think you get down bro i think you've gotten drunk at a bar and slapped somebody before yeah i mean i have definitely i've bitten i've bitten people oh that's a good one i won't bite nobody really i don't want to catch that here keep this up on you sorry oh sorry i see you don't bite yeah i don't bite you know i mean even though i'm pretty

sure i've had other people's blood in my mouth but like you know we get tested to go to the fight yeah so we're pretty clean athletes at that time but like a random on the outside no i can't be biting no i don't want to catch rabies yeah oh they had a lot of rabies bust growing up you see somebody every now and then rolling down the street bro licking eight trying to lick their elbows and shit if you knew that they had been you know what i'm saying they've been a little too close to a raccoon yeah it's got a little dicey man um man we i used to have a couple raccoons that lived in my house yeah yeah because we my house in flint michigan and uh you know that's a pretty crazy place up there and i had a big hole on the side of the house and we had like a blue tarp over it

and we had aluminum shingles on the side of the house so i think my dad told me that someone stole them but i think he took them and then so then we had a big hole in the house and we used to have raccoons in there sometimes it was cool man yeah he's hanging out bro i used to work at this restaurant i was a busboy over there and i did other things too i would sell a little bit of weed but mostly i was doing dish work but um and when the chef would cook uh duck when they would make duck they had loose floorboards in the back of the restaurant and they had a lot of raccoons in the wall and one of us busboys would have to sit there with a broomstick because the raccoons like the duck smell so they come out the wood bro and i'll just sit there and just beat them back

in oh my god that's crazy so definitely there was a five-star restaurant over there over there it was man it was bro it really really was yeah that was a five-star down here in florida i seen something with the golden corrals they put they they had all the food on the trays all the raw steak and a golden corral you can it's a it's all you can eat spot but like you go over to the chef and he'll cook a steak for you and you can keep going back and eat more steak people like it i haven't eaten there in years but they used to keep the meat outside next to the dumpsters uh uh yeah they made like a video about that so i stopped eating there that's a storage issue yeah right you know freezer um um man i'm so i just i'm i'm honestly i'm excited uh i'm not that fun though i'm not

that exciting i'm actually a really boring like you know uh solid focused individual you're you though yeah you are you you couldn't be any more you i don't think people love you bro thank you people love you well i feel i feel differently a little bit about yourself there's a lot of hate oh really yeah just about myself as far as like what other people seem to think or act or what they say um not that it matters but like you know so i'm 30 now i'm a little older so um i'm trying to carry myself in in such a way to be older to be wiser i'm not being a fighter it's like i'm still young mentally because like i want to think about having fun all the time and then you gotta you know i i look in the mirror and i realize or i see all the stuff that people say and i'm like

you know on one side forget about that but on the other side it's like you know if they're right you got to take constructive criticism and you got to take a look in the mirror and just you know i'm trying to be better i'm trying to be an example you know yeah what was there kind of a moment that changed because you seem from an outsider's perspective you know i've just always been a fan and uh you seem a little different over the past year or two you seem a little bit uh more i don't know you seem i don't know if it's more grown up i don't want to say grown up because that's not it i don't know what do you feel differently over the past few years and what's kind of changed for you as a person well i met my girl and um well i met her years ago

actually but like when i went back to her and we started making a family together um i noticed some things about her her character that really just made me like you know respect her a lot like she's the littlest cutest little thing but she's savage and you can't get an emotion out of her you can't get nothing out of her and i saw that and i was like these these grown men out here be acting like little babies right compared to my tiny little girl who then you know these are the type of dudes they'll cry to somebody but they're the same ones who would bully someone that they can dominate right so i try to be this person that you know for for the ones who are weaker even though i i like to do i like to think like a winner i see what winners do i try to follow

winners see what they're doing try to you know uh emulate that in my own way and um but i still want to be that guy for the weaker people the people who can't stand up for themselves the people shoot there was somebody just about to get into a fight in their cars there was arguing getting in and out of the car arguing blocking traffic for everybody trying to turn right to come here and like i was like man i was wondering you know if the guy is fighting a girl you know what would happen what would i do but i just drove in the grass past them you know and do you think a few years ago you might have got out of just to see what was going on no but you're just right nosy right right if it's not my business but if i do see a guy fighting a girl i would probably

you know help out yeah at least investigate yeah you know uh who was it they were talking about kevin holland he's saving people and then ben askream wants to say that he's paying people to do a crime so that he can hunt them down he's like how does this guy getting all this troubles because you've never you know wanted any trouble ben he never did yeah ben looked like he yeah ben doesn't look like the guy that's had a lot of trouble really huh i mean he's probably had more trouble than me um when it comes to fighting what whatever made you want to fight if you think back in your life like were you did you just kind of at a certain age start to see like damn i'm i fight or did it was there something inside of you like is there a do you know what it is you're

able to get a look at it whatever that is my dad's savage really he's crazy mofo he's probably still the toughest dude i've ever seen and you know he's just too loose cannon so i try to take that and like focus it right into the the art of you know being a martial artist a fighter a boxer i really like the boxing nowadays especially because i'm doing it yeah i've always wanted to be a boxer i like the flash the you know the outfits that they can wear in the ring when when the ufc takes everybody and they try to make them look the same and then you know the grappling breaks up the fight when boxing is all about like just to me i i just have the word swagger in my head when i think of boxing you just got to carry yourself with a certain demeanor yeah and my

like i said you know my dad was a crazy guy did you see him fight growing up did he fight um i heard stories we got in fights with the neighborhood people um i saw him make people back down from fights a lot you know he would get people's face and be like i'll bite your nose off and like in their yard you know what i'm saying oh that's wow i'm in your yard to see what are you gonna do yeah and uh you know he told me one time we fought like the whole block and like i was trying to break it up and i i was like 13 14 i was just getting strong and my dad i think he was drunk and he wanted me to fight with him with the neighborhood and um i was trying to break it up and he got mad at me and then because he wanted you in it right he wanted me to want to do it i

guess and like you know i was a kid though but uh and i think he got arrested that night and he's he he got out the next day and he said that the he was talking trash to the cops all night and that they drove into an alley and they beat him with their nightsticks in the backseat they open the backs each time over his ass good stories man good stuff you know it probably it probably stung a little bit that's a good story yeah bro we grew up in my neighborhood people are always fighting bro and it was a sign of respect like everybody had their shirts off all the time dudes walking around with like those do you ever see the dude with like the semen arms he just walked he just like uh he the only way he know how to move he just he never even could lift his arms so they just swing

in in front of him we had that kind of dude we had a guy who had Down syndrome bro but they wouldn't say he had it bro so he was always out there fucking people up bro thinking he was in regular education we had like uh dude we had like a whole family was shirtless bro women all of them the whole family was shirtless bro always smoking in their in their house bro the children were smoking cigarettes everybody was out on the block back in the day you know i mean you had your bicycle you drove to people's houses you knock on their door yeah and their momma answered the door you like damn where your son at where your son got some hoodlums yeah we got some shit to do yeah let's go dude that was so i missed that kind of stuff i forget about that remember how kind of crazy it was when you

would go to your buddy's house to because that determined your whole day if your friend was home or not it determined how the rest of your day was gonna go if you wasn't home yet to go back to your fucking house brun that always it wasn't bad but it wasn't the same as having your buddy you know a couple places you know i had a couple places ago i rode my bike miles every day all over and uh remember i remember playing tackle in the grass and two hand touch in the street football you ever played that yeah and the car would come and everybody'd have to shut it down bro everybody called a car driver you fucking brother dude's driving through bro it's not even a gay dude it's just a dude with his wife or something you're like this motherfucker is ruining our game bro people

yelling you quit just down the street just you know just back in the day she was fun bro god it was fun dude times are better now though yeah you know well your life's different now we have more yeah you know people say that Joe Rogan always says that he's like you know we're at the time where you have access to whatever you want you know well that's if he you know yeah you can go on google and look something up but then like there's so many scams out there right where's the information coming from you don't know you always see the i always see that meme on instagram it's like you know where you order online and it's like it was like the good Conor McGregor who knocked out uh all done in 13 seconds and then it's like what you get it was like uh

you know him sitting on the floor talking shit to dust yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah okay yeah that's true because everything you get now i feel like it comes from a different place it's not that you know it's it's interesting i think when a lot of jobs left america for overseas when they started making stuff in factories in other countries then the pride you lost a lot of pride it used to be like your dad worked at a factory or something so when that item came off the press you have you wore you my dad made this you know people would tell that kind of story and now it's like we just get it from somewhere we don't know who makes it you know somebody's dad is on damn perk a set all the time and you don't even know us you know i think some of the pride is going a

little bit maybe but that could be me romanticizing stuff americans are tough with that though right like like um i mean who do we got that the americans really get behind as far as you know everything leads back to the fight game for me it's like Conor McGregor's got the irish people they fly out from ireland they go to vegas they turn up they they come with thousands and thousands and they blow up the stadium khabib i mean all the all the russian people i mean i don't know how much they trap i mean everybody knows the irish fans the european fans i'm excited to go to london uh shout out crypto phase market cipher real quick uh i'm excited to go to london last time i was there i had that big fight with danie roberts and that was a banger because i just i felt

the swagger in that fight you know that's when that was like your first half of your ufc career right yeah it was my second fight it was your second fight there so i was nine and oh with nine knockouts after that one and we went to the third round to the last minute and then i got him and it was a banger the whole time it was a good fight so i mean i'm looking to you know do that again yeah what does that feel like so you you're gonna be heading over there your family's gonna go with you yes actually so i'm flying to london tomorrow and then i'll i'll get there monday i guess i'm traveling you know all night tomorrow and uh for the presser and the fight's august 20th and um i'm gonna my my son's gonna stay here uh nine hour flight you know i'm gonna bring my wife and uh

uh we're gonna go she's probably gonna be in the corner uh with my other coach my boxing coach and i think his wife might be going so we're gonna get to see london i went last time i saw manchester it was cool to see um nothing like florida though anywhere you go in the world i like florida um you know and but you know shout out england i think they're gonna bring the heat those fans are intense with when it comes to fight and they really show up over there you get stadiums with 60 to 90 000 people for the fights sometimes yeah for like australia i think they had like 90 000 people and you know that's anything that isn't florida is like uk to me right if it's over there it's all uk australia it's uk new zealand uk and then there's asia yeah that's how i feel kind of

yeah sometimes i divide yeah to me like somebody in the audience the other night said they're i don't know what ethnicity they were but i didn't even know it you know i said i know black and mexican that's the and white you know and i know it's kind of whites are a little mexican yeah whites are getting everybody's gonna be beige bro in about two more generations everybody's gonna be beige man good yeah and then it's because then all the race stuff will be gone people can't even you know they're gonna be like there's gonna be something about a freckle or yeah you know a limp you got a tan or don't tan yeah yeah oh you could tell who stays inside in the ac they got like a paleness yeah you know oh yeah you could tell the sun makes me feel good man when i get out

in it bro i feel like god wants me to be alive that's what i feel like it's good for sure i'm a little hung over today but really what y'all do man i was just playing video games last night uh i play this pirate game it's fun we sink people's shit and steal their loot what do you what do you play it on xbox okay i play with people who are playing on pc and stuff yeah i think they'd be cheating yeah so we be winning i'd be like i'm here for it let's go be sinking their shit stealing your booty or i'm a pirate legend now that's real shit i'm happy about really yeah i try to be a pirate in real life too yeah yeah gang bro um i know you got so i know you moved in oh i want to tell you i play metroid dread on on nintendo switch i gotta get the switch just so i can play pokemon

bro it's good you like pokemon see i'm a grown-ass man but i still want to play little kid video game oh same i need a break from reality sometimes you know i hate being an adult i hate being an adult sometimes yeah i mean i like being able to drink alcohol and smoke and uh you know and sleep in don't let no you know even though my wife's gonna yell at me i sleep in she yells at me every day does she but we have a good life yeah yeah are you uh did you ever believe that you could be a family man that you would have that kind of life was that a something in your head that you didn't think of or was something you always wanted do you have any thoughts on that i remember a time that i didn't want a kid um and now that i have a kid i'm like i remember that time because

but like i said i'm older i'm grown so i don't need to be getting shit faced in the clubs all the time it's nice when you when you have a family and you have to you know maybe once month or once every two months you get that opportunity and then when you go out you only have a few hours you got to get back to the baby so those few hours you're going a hundred you know what i mean then back in the day it was like you go and you're like sipping shots you baby sitting and they're like you know going half as hard now we go hard and we barely make it home but we're waking up the next day and we're feeding this little ass and it's just it's so much joy from just looking at him yeah and i made him with someone that i just really i just love

and respect her beauty and her like i'm telling you she's such a badass she really is it sound like she really has been an inspiration to you huh it's cute for when she yells at me and stuff i'm like it's fun to fight i think she likes to fight with me too yeah it's funny you know yes she is she is the ultimate inspiration that's her and my son you know and and our partners are first our son my son is amazing he's everything but he's gonna be a little shit i already know yeah and he's gonna have to do his thing and figure his shit out in life i'm gonna help him best i can but he won't listen you can be right there telling him look you spell your name like this he's not gonna fucking do it you know what i mean he's

not gonna do it i can try to guide him all i want but ultimately he's gonna listen when i when i make him you know see that i'm not really looking right when i'm not looking he'll do his best when i'm looking he's like he want to raise hell he says little sentences he'd be like who's this shit who's this shit he becomes a little bit he's like what the fuck is this i'm like yeah nothing better than a little kid that can fucking curse bro you know better help get help for yourself if you need it people need it and you could be one of those people god we all need help you know i find myself in going to therapy twice a week right now and that's okay that's what i need for myself burnout is a big thing that's happened especially in this world where we feel like

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you start to think differently was there something else that was so you obviously you fell in it you know you felt you found your your your girl you really admired her was there anything else like when you that helped that kind of helped you get over to that place because i find myself sometimes still in a place of wanting to be not wanting to grow up you know not it's gotta be Harvey in a comedian because you know everyone judges so much of what is said and like you know me being a fighter talking to you i've been you know with my girl i think one thing about her is inspiring is that she's quiet and um to me i'm like you know sometimes less you know not saying anything at all is the best answer but you you have to say something yeah so then you come up with these

these things that you say that just send people's heads on a trip trying to figure out what it is exactly you mean if someone's paying attention that hard but what you say is for people who are just trying to enjoy themselves and and not focus so much on all the bs and um you know it's i guess my point is like you know it's gotta be hard because yeah i think maybe you want to stay like in a place where you could always joke around and i guess that feels most like being a kid right and when you were a kid you were fearless oh man you would just let anything go say whatever the fuck you wanted to say and now i'm scrutinized for everything so but i still gotta find a way to get my message out there and say it in a way that speaks it could be funny and serious i think

that's one thing people like about me i'd be so serious and they're like mike's so funny and i'm like bitch i was so serious i'm not trying to be funny i think it's a mix i think it's interesting about a lot of fighters man i noticed was uh i wish sometimes you got to see more of fighters personality some of the guys i've gotten to know they have some of some of the guys have really good sense of humor and people don't know it people just see them as like these kind of beasts or these like savages or these creatures you know but sometimes some really have the best person that have the best sense of humor too you know fighters i think we're really bipolar i think well i guess you almost have to be because i don't know how i could go from a regular

moment to the moments i see you guys do i guess i mean they a lot of fighters i've met and hung out with you know we'll be joking and it's a good time and then in the blink of an eye they just do like some i mean i feel like people in general do this though where they're really um they throw shade or like i don't know where you're like what's that for they just start throwing hate your way or like negative comments or uh they just switch and you see a smile and you guys are laughing and having a good time and then all of a sudden they're like like Kanye West you know he goes from smiling to him like he might be quad polar he might have more poles is that what bi is too i think bi's too yeah i could see him up in the ante bro i could see him in throwing three or five

yeah quad polar yeah um so man you got your life changed recently with your work you are now doing bare knuckle fighting and you've always been a fighter but it's it's watching you is like i could never fight you know so to watching you i mean you just it's almost like you want all of the you want every moment of the fight you know like you what you just don't you just i mean you take the punch you just fucking ride i mean it's like you were riding in that that i mean it's a dark fucking well i've been winning now yeah no i know i know and a good mindset good place yeah with the thought of winning and trying to you know i don't think too hard about trying to keep it going i just do me right and i'll be ready to fight when it's time to fight and what i i just accepted my place

in life i was like first of all how much longer are they gonna let me do this shit second i'm doing this shit so why not do this shit stop trying to just you know fuck the points go for it i used to knock people out i don't know what happened i'm a little older but i feel like i would beat my younger self wow but my younger self was such a motherfucker because he just i used to just touch people and they just fucking loopy all over the place now i crack people and they're just like keep coming at me i'm like all right fucking i don't know what to do but just keep doing it yeah just keep doing it hit them and hit them some more if he's still there hit them some more or you know it's what my career has kind of taught me just give in and be all in with what you got

going it seems real yeah that seems real obvious man i mean you fucking i watched uh the last fight you how was it lane was it the last fight yeah and uh and that was your first fight in in in bare knuckle do you it feels like from a fans perspective that that sport really really fits you do you in hindsight now haven't been a few months away from the fight because it's legit as fuck it's it's boxing it's clean they let us wrestle a little bit there's no need to slow the fight down and go all the way to the ground and you know i mean that was lanes like ninth or tenth bare knuckle fight by my ninth or tenth bare knuckle fight my knowledge of the sport you know what i mean he taught me a couple of things but i was still the better boxer and um and it's

just so there's something about these naked fists in a real fight against another professional that lets you know yeah you're gonna get if you get touched you're gonna bleed and if you touch them make sure they bleed and and you know just keep keep putting it on them you know what i'm saying that's my idea but this shit it's real as fuck and i really enjoy that aspect of it yeah it seemed like it's there as real as it's as real as you could get bro i mean they got people out there i mean that's shit seeing it just seemed like a civil war you know some of it looks like just something you'd seen in a damn horror flick yeah i feel like some of the matchups i feel like people get lucky with matchups a lot i feel like i fight pretty good people um and i'm a motherfucker too

like you know i don't see someone really we haven't got the contracts necessarily yet and we'll see who shows up i'll be ready to fight in london on fight day i'll be ready i was supposed to be ready for a fight last night barren knuckle had fights last night in hollywood florida june 24th that was last night and i was ready and uh you know i was supposed to possibly be fighting other people end up fighting because they used me as a business token and they were like let's do some big shit and they loved me over in england since my danie rovers fight it'd be a pleasure to go back and you know have another crazy fight there and um you know i just stay ready for my opportunities to to put these paws on motherfuckers yeah yeah fuck yeah dude i'm gonna fucking punch somebody

you can punch me no bro i don't know you can punch me bro it's cool bro stomach or in the face i mean the face might i might bleed so you could do like a belly shot i don't know if i could do you think i could do i could do pretty probably pretty good you think i don't know if i pulled it or not man well i have dreams the most famous person who's ever punched me really yeah for sure uh we could get some i i do it i can i'm gonna text some people then next time we're at your fights i think i get your letter to punch you michael j white probably wants to punch me really i feel like you're more famous than him though but he's been in a bunch of shitty netflix movies um michael j white michael j white he uh he been in some i mean

i remember blood and bone was a good movie he had good choreography from martial arts but that's movie shit and he um you know me and him had a i just got mad at him because i felt like he was talking trash about kimbo slice after kimbo passed away saying how he was teaching kimbo this and how kimbo was like so anyways um i just you know i cussed him out and then i went too far uh when you're dealing with these people who got money they're they're a big deal or an opportunity and and you know i fucked things up like that in my past but you know and i kind of got mad at him and you know i brought the real fight out and talked some shit that maybe i shouldn't have said or whatever but you know so maybe if they have attorneys call if we can make that michael j

white fight happen i'll fight him anytime he's a heavyweight and he's a movie actor and he he want to act like and tell people that he's a real fighter um you know i'll fight any real fighter and i'm gonna fight real fighters i know the movie guys ain't gonna be there they ain't gonna they ain't for it they don't want to smoke i'm gonna keep fighting i'm only 30 by the time i'm 45 i would have the record and uh uh what's the word uh attributes or whatever mic tyson tyson because i i just who gets down like me i don't know anyone nobody gets down like me like yeah i mean i don't i i don't know but i i can think up off hand you know uh john jones who uh did you know kimbo did you know him no i never got to meet him but i loved watching him

on the ultimate fighter and tough and i got to meet rampage who you know if you watch that when rampage made kimbo rampage like oh kimbo's on my team rampage is just cool and funny the bang this chick i knew she was cool she's a nice girl yeah a lot of chicks yeah that's pretty savage who was the yeah i wonder who what ufc guy has had the most prolific luck with women over the years probably me oh well you got a beautiful wife you're right man so you won and uh you won i mean they say gsp oh really they say he's like a little whore damn i could see him being in there just fucking he you know i bet he's eat some nasty crotches i bet he probably eats it from behind some people eat it from behind i feel like if gsp eats crotch he'd be like oh really like he tries

to stay far away from me like i got to keep my face out of that yeah yeah and she'd be like do it yeah she wants this crap you're tough do it and he's like ah that's how gsp you're gonna get a tour i'm gonna get a tour dude you're making me laugh thanks man um who else would be good so having i know you just have a new experience in the bare knuckle fighting in that group i know that it's not new in your life but is there another other ufc guys that you would think like oh man they don't realize they might really really dig this shit over here oh man you know i think what's cool about it is that it keeps my my grittiness it makes you think more gritty it's like if you're in a fight and someone pulls out a gun you're involved in some real shit

some street shit yeah ufc the people who are in it they want to think and you have to believe that you're special or you're high up you're classy you want to become this image of you know just just all the popular brands or you know you want your sponsors and you want the marketing and everything to be so professional and um i want to take the sport of bare knuckle boxing and make it that you know make it more professional pristine and like louis viton and uh or burberry you know um i you know i don't know that's the thing about it that's where it really does fit me is because this shit's so real you tell me someone that you think wants this fucking shit none of them they don't want this they want to keep their little four ounce gloves on and their hands padded and

they want to not get cut so much when they fight yeah you get the air goes by in there but you believe it yeah oh yeah it's like a real donor ship in there it's like an emergency room like it looked like a halfway house it looked like a halfway house at an emergency room every one of them fights bro damn it should look like a narcotics anonymous meeting bro where people broke out swords and shit that should look dangerous man too it's like you know i don't know who i respect those fucking guys oh unbelievable they look like shit a lot of the time when they get in there and fight sometimes you see a little star glisten you see a little shine from one of these there a lot of the fighters in there look like you know drug addicts or like people who just had hard shit in life

but they got the balls to go in there and do it for and they're doing it for like 20 dollars they're fighting for damn they're nothing you got to build up and obviously the competition's not not as solid as like someone who's getting paid a lot more for it so then you're in there with a dangerous opponent but you know i respect all these fucking different types of people cut that i see because i'm like man you real talk you got some balls and shut out britain heart man she fought last night she got the win and i've seen this sport i've seen her change in this sport before i entered this sport i saw her she was such a savage girl screaming at people cussing them out saying mean things and then i met her at my debut and um she was trying to be more professional

you know what i mean it was it was cool to see it's interesting you start to notice that in other people it that's interesting huh it's interesting how if we kind of are able to have some change in our life in some way then we'll start seeing it like in other people it's interesting does she uh do you think it's as that that sport is as just the same for women as it is for men the bare knuckle oh yeah i think some of them women get in there and they again they uh they're savages you know what i mean they and the women are pretty good at like holding a tight fist and um you know throwing them sharp little cutters out there women still do what women still do sometimes a smart fight doesn't matter whether it's men or women people might boo if you're doing what you're supposed

to do if you're sticking and moving and you're using the ring and people want you to get a phone booth they've actually got those fights now i seen them there was like people fighting in one of those uk phone booths oh really yeah there's like two guys they took the phone out no i think actually i don't know it it might not have been but it was two guys in a small ass phone booth bare knuckle boxing they're in there just trying to punch each other i was like i'm not doing that yeah i don't think you need that man that's where i might bite someone yeah yeah that's where you can start starving your teeth bro um what about um whenever you were little bro did y'all ever do halloween and shit was it fun did you miss it love halloween you didn't see uh last

year me and my girl and we dressed our baby up we were three little devils yeah we were all devils and people were so angry it was so funny because to me i'm like you know the devil punishes bad people right the devil is an angel right right why do y'all hate the devil because he tries to get you you should hate yourself yeah you're the piece of shit that wants to do with the devil's telling you you should do that's what i think about that a lot he's just trying to trap you he wants you in jail so he can put it in your butt yeah that's what the devil's doing oh yeah the devil fucking he takes the back rows baby that's what he wants do you think devil leave me alone yeah yeah i've had it i don't know if i've ever had real strong issues with the devil when i was growing up

they had some people by us that did a lot of say on tonight he don't go to louis hannah oh well some of his women did then they had some we had some we had some wild bitches pass through us a fucking candlelight bad girls bro i feel like there's a good christian community in louis hannah louis hannah is good it's sweaty christian hot church is tough to you know the devil can't can't go in the hot church it's too hot in there too hot for him it's too hot for him he's standing in fire them hot churches this is ace yeah the devil now he even the devil likes a little bit of ac these days um what else do you see for yourself man you seem like you're in such a good place do you start to think uh like of other things you want to do in your life even outside of fighting

man like you say at home play video games and eat food out of my fridge and pantry you do twitch and stuff like that i don't uh i want to you should get it i should do some twitch streaming of me playing some dumbass game i mean this pirate game is dope but um i just yeah i gotta set it up and i but one thing about twitch i guess you have to open like a donation box right that's how you make money on there it's like it's donations and to me i was like i'm not begging you know i'm not gonna be out here begging yeah i guess yeah how do you keep from making yourself feel like a monkey yeah i don't like that shit either you know but at some point you know i'm gonna need to find other articles of work and uh you know take myself up but they keep coming to you it seems like it's almost

like the world keeps building whatever is next for mike perry well a fight is in my ideas uh i want i'm 30 i want to fight till i'm 45 or even older i could do this shit forever it could always be a part of who i am but i don't know how long they'll let me do it so now i'll try to it's about the pedestal there are certain people who get in the ufc they win one big fight and then they take that and they make all this business opportunity out of it me i've always just been a fighter i've always just my paycheck is just a fight check i only get paid once or twice three times a year max maybe and that's tough but i've been paid enough to where you know but that money goes down every month that you're not fighting with bills and all that stuff so i don't understand business i don't

know why i don't know how to do it and i believe in my past i fucked up to where i'm trying to rebuild myself as this new character um not just a character but someone who holds himself to a standard because i've messed up in the past have been the people that people don't want to maybe be put themselves on with but i've also you know like i said shout out market cipher they've they've been following along with me but there's no check like that fight check 15 minutes max and i just made money for the whole year i don't have to do shit the rest of the year i sleep in every day i drink when i want i eat when i want it's a pirate's life bro it really is man do you uh i'm trying to think of what else i can speak to you about man um what about you speak to me about you you

got family and stuff yeah i got family my sister going through a divorce right now and so she's doing pretty good though no kids but they got mold in their house right now but no i don't have any killed i don't have any kids my own but i want i want so i would like to have a family you know i think it's been hard sometimes it's been hard for me to take that next step like okay i mean you're a traveler because work yeah they want you on the road doing shit like that you know what i mean that's gotta be tough you want to be home and you're miles away yeah but even inside of myself it's been tough sometimes to be like okay if you you know you get married you have a family everything's gonna be okay i think i get so used to this world that i can kind of operate in where i know how

things work when it's just me i think i get scared sometimes that if i get more people involved is it gonna be can i do it you know kind of i don't know right like it adds things like oh i need to fly to london tomorrow baby like she's like what um yeah they just dropped it on me i gotta go and leave you guys for a few days but it's for the best it's for the family i don't like that shit because you know you know who knows what anybody's doing when you're not there but it is what it is life happens right yeah yeah i think sometimes i gotta have i think yeah some of my mentality needs to be more like everything is going to be cool you know i think i get some on the little bit paranoid like oh things aren't going to be okay you know or i don't or i just get

scared of change and stuff like that you know um but i'm working more towards it you know i would like to have a family and i just need to just do it you know and i'll find a good person i pray a lot about it and you know i think that uh that that kind of stuff will happen for me hey man yeah that's dope man i need you know i would like to have it um what else can we ask mike perry about people love you bro people fucking love you what is it about to you think bro because you're you you the only one who could really know bro what do you think it is man i i mean i'm a good looking motherfucking and i'm savage i'm in the fight game because there's nowhere else for me to be be this it found me it just i you know you asked me at the beginning like how did i know or whatever

and i said you know my dad was crazy and i remember watching bow dog fights back when i was young i saw it on the tv you know we had like six channels the antenna and i saw bow dog and um i was like oh that's cool and we always play sports outside basketball football all that stuff man i wanted to be a i don't know i guess that fighting found me i wanted to play any sport anything football basketball and then boxing we used to do fight club after school ask go after at the soccer field we would walk out there and bring gloves fight after school were you good at it then i was strong but like what is good at fighting because if somebody else everybody got a trick right they're like oh i do this fake and then throw this kick and then you know i get knocked down but that's

always been my thing it's like you i'm too tough too strong yeah you can hurt me yeah you can hit me yeah you can knock me down i make mistakes but like i'm gonna wear you out and then i'm gonna drown you that's what it's about fuck damn that's crazy to know you can do that yeah how about that's interesting to know you could do that bro because if i say that to somebody they're not gonna believe that and that's fine but no but you don't you don't say that she's so like as a fighter i'm like i'm always like damn what's a normal person do like what do they do normal person like you a comedian that's not even normal either what is normal not a guy who works at mcdonald's that's not normal yeah that's not super normal i don't know maybe somebody that goes for a walk on the

keyboard somebody that goes for a walk that seemed like a normal dude if i see somebody going for a walk but also what do they do do they type on a keyboard for work for money i don't know how to friend who was a peeping time bro and so if you just and here's a crazy part and i you know i met him at a certain type of recovery meeting you know but and i would see him in my neighborhood all the time i didn't know for years i would see him and then one time i was in a meeting and that dude said he was a flasher and a peeping time and i was like damn bro i've been seeing this dude the whole time thinking he's a normal guy that's going for a walk and he's out there trying to fucking show that bird you know and that's crazy and i remember one time it was at the liquor store with my uncle

and my dad had left me up there for a couple months and uh they had this lady came up she goes if you see my kitty it was in a liquor store he's buying liquor because he was a um out of work musician and so he's buying a bunch of liquor and she goes if you see my kitty this lady and i didn't know we're inside a store you know in a building and she just opens her jacket bro and she had all tits and cooter and belly and belly fat i don't remember bro i was so horny at the time bro all i saw was literally from tits to cooter i couldn't even see nothing in between there and that's that's being horny as a child shipping is important getting things out to people you know you want to get somebody you want something somebody left a hat or somebody left a uh a big

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my dick i remember sometimes it was so hard bro sorry i just get a little weird but i remember yeah i remember punching my fucking dick i posted a video last year of my girl smacking me in the nuts as hard as she could i was in like i was on my back on the bed like like a turtle and i i was like dude i was recording as hard as you can fucking smacked that shit that video had like half a million views i deleted it though like a month later really why i don't you delete stuff sometimes i know yeah i delete a lot of shit i do too sometimes people piss me off i post shit and i'm like like i'll post some fight stuff and now i'm in this mood where it's like no you're gonna wait to see me in action i i got some sparring footage and stuff that and i'm also not trying to like

post me beating up people who are helping me out either you know and sparring you know you need a sparring partner you can't fucking just always shadowbox and punch the air yeah you're gonna lose so uh so i stopped posting a lot of this stuff you know fighters are like i want to i want people to know that i'm capable of like good fighting technique and can knock people out and i'm swift and i'm i got that swagger but when you post it it might not be what you you know it might not look how you want that image to be so and then you know people bring their comments these motherfuckers who want to talk shit about my fight and they ain't ever fought nobody they fight that they fight themselves out of bed every morning because they're fat pieces of shit or something yeah and a lot of

sick people out there but you know you can't let the comments mean anything no especially you man of people your personality is i mean watching you fight is insane bro it's literally it's like watching something insane happen okay that's just from a perspective it's just you're like damn this is insane bro but also your personality people love you bro so it's almost like i feel like you they like to fuck with me because i bite it and i'm like oh now maybe that might be why bait bait right you're a fucking piece of shit mike i'm like fuck you bro they're like oh i hope they say the worst shit say mean shit and then sometimes they say something like oh that you don't fucking move your head and they do this and you're like okay bitch you're you're kind of right yeah

but like you're not right because like the head moving your head comment comment first of all no one has taken the hits that i've taken obviously i'm moving some type of way because i take them hits but you know so you just you type on that keyboard and i'm gonna fucking type on some ass out here i'm gonna type on somebody's face yeah with my face baby a sdf baby did you ever um do you like taking the hits yeah sometimes i try to tell myself you know don't like it too much it's not the idea but sometimes i can bait people to be in the right place like that movie wanted you know and the guy standing on the x yeah he's standing on the x and he's like oh shit are you right where i want to do there you go come on with it whoa bait bait

and switch are there times when you know right when you throw the punch that is game over do you is there ever that does that ever kind of happen or is it too fast for no yeah because all the best all the best knockouts i feel like i've had i feel like you don't feel them like when i got ellen burger i was just like moving and i didn't even feel that on my elbow um a couple right hands i hit people with didn't even feel it you know and like that england fight danie roberts i need him i hit him with the right hand need him and i was like trying to get him on the way down you never know you always try to uh hit them till they stop you that's your job you know is to fight until they separate you it's not your job to stop fighting because you're winning yeah kill that

motherfucker that i mean they're blood contracts if someone dies no one's in trouble wow a lot of people don't die i guess that's part of it if someone dies no one's in trouble that's the thing about me right as i'm tough enough you gonna have to kill me some maybe i'm gonna fight someone who's maybe capable maybe that's mvp maybe that's the highlight of the fight right he's capable he's knocked out some people in some pretty severe ways i'm really excited to test that's my bone against his that's a london fella yeah mvp is a bellator guy hit yeah he threw you know by him he threw that pokeball at that dude after he like crushed his skull with his knee but he don't got knees in this fight with me he just got his hand and he moves he's trying not to get hit

and things like that but you know i keep thinking you know he might not be the one that shows up oh you think they might switch it out we'll see you'll be there i'll be there i'll be ready i don't care who it is i'll be ready but it is cool uh this fight before the ufc days when i was like seven and oh seven knockouts it went through facebook it got pretty big buzz we were trying to make the me vs mvp fights uh since back then uh i'm a fan of mvp he's done some really cool stuff but i feel like he's always fought people that were put there for him to do that to them and i'm not the one that you can just do that too so we're both in for a fight here i don't think he's the one i think he'll be very hard for me to hit he's very elusive he's like a that that thing

at the car dealership yeah yeah come get this yeah by this car comes yeah yeah i'm gonna catch his ass though damn fuck me hit the switch and the air just come down it's time for me to knock somebody out of here it is about time it's about time man do you uh do you can you really is there really times you were you were baiting people where you were like okay i know i can get them to hit me right here then they're gonna be in a place where i can yeah i mean i just i feel like um oh that's kind of one thing i thought the other day about that moving the head thing is like why move your head if you could just throw a punch if you can hit them instead of dodging them and they're not doing shit just hit them that's how i think you see people who fight with their hands down oh yeah i'll be

damned michael venner page is going to stand in front of me with his hands down the whole time and i'm gonna fucking throw punches at him the whole time and make him put his fucking hands up i'm gonna hit him and he's gonna have to put his hands up i think it's so disrespectful when people be their hands down and the other guy just doesn't know how to enter because every time he comes in the dude just throws something up and it lands it's got power the pocket shot that's what they call that the pocket shot your hands are down by your pockets and you throw from the hip royal jones used to knock a lot of people out like that but i'll be damned if someone's gonna stand in front of me with their hands down learn how to punch you gotta just go for it is there about you see maybe

even af outside of your weight class do you have any thoughts like uh of it uh like are there any ufc bouts that you wanted that you didn't get kind of was there one that kind of you kind of wish would have happened and it still could i mean who knows man still could i'm a fighter you could fight i'm gonna fight anyone every i will fight anything llc you know me versus mike tyson me versus john chones me versus jake paul me versus logan paul floy mayweather i'm trying to put myself in a winning category it's no disrespect obviously me versus kamar usman i mean and i think you know that's the thing they want to they want to you know ufc is pretty big and uh it looks good when they're when they're champions when they're championship they got their nice looking belt

they changed the belt the belt used to be kind of cooler but now it's cool too it just looks like a power ranger thing now like the old belt honestly yeah the the fence and the bare knuckles and shit or the brass knuckles or something and um all right that was like a old anyways um i don't you know do i ever want to be so special that i i would look at the sport of bare knuckle boxing and not give it its respect and say i ain't doing that shit that shit looks terrible i'm not doing that i don't know it it might look terrible a lot of the times but when it does look good or when you see someone beat the f*** out of somebody you're like that guy needs a challenge right there should be two monsters in there really showing what real combat is like bare knuckle punching in the

face and you can hold a little bit to try to protect yourself but mostly separate and box and it feels grittier when you're when i'm watching it man when i'm watching it and i first even learned about it because of you that's the first reason i even learned about uh that my attention got drawn to it and i was like damn that is f***ing really real i'm looking to be quite different next time from the first one i mean julian lane was tough um he was he was strong i hit him with a lot of shots and then my hands were busted and i toned down the power a lot on the shots and the cleanliness but since that fight since everything i've learned from my first bare knuckle fight the the things that you can learn only from doing it you can't practice it who's

going to bare knuckle spar you know a lot of people not a lot of nobody and then you don't want to get cut because bar and training all that you're both going to be cut and have to go get stitches that's going to cost thousands of dollars so you know the you can't practice it you can only learn from jumping in the ring and trying it out and doing it so once i did that now i've been finding out more about my knuckles about my punching ability about how the shots should land i mean you training differently i've really been yeah i've really been focused on you know there's some there's some days i go in the gym and i'll beat the bag up bare knuckle sometimes i wrap the wrist and beat them up bare knuckle and then i get carried away and then i can't use my hands for a week

because i just destroyed i burn all the skin on them i get these big nasty scabs and then my bones get so hard that like i you know what you can't even lift up a muffin like yeah you know i always be able to lift something up i ain't never gonna complain trust me this ain't complaints this is facts you know you got ice and stuff like that i gotta i gotta get a video somebody joe rogan been doing videos in the damn ice bath i'm about to get in there and show my toughness i saw a couple people do ice bath videos that's a good video yeah i i i i just got an ice bath not too long ago it's good yeah but i don't know if anything will fucking cool you all bro i think you just i think you run at your own temperature dog yeah try to be fiery you know i think you do

man i think you i try to keep my cool too though it's that line the fire and ice this you're in almost in orlando you're in daytona we're in daytona and orlando uh back in the day they had oh you know what i don't know if those rides are still here they used to have the dueling dragons ride oh yeah it was carnival islands of adventure islands of adventure universal studios this is big thing here and uh i had you know passes and they got the volcano bay all the and volcano bay is kind of fun as waterslides but the fire and ice they had the the two dragons and these roller coasters like intertwined and like they would come at each other and it was good do flips and it was crazy dude do you ever remember uh do you ever remember um what subject

you were best at in school do you remember i was just thinking how i can't um stay on subject and how i keep changing the subject all the time right but like in class was there ever one subject you were like oh this is the one i like or this the one i was really good at oh man algebra man i was really good at math uh you know i count this money yeah yeah yeah you know i can tell the time really well i but when i went to school i woke up it's fucking early sometimes i wouldn't even go to sleep and go to school and uh i would first thing i would do and i wore a tank top every day basketball shorts and a tank top i was the only kid allowed to do it in school i think i was i think you just did it yeah and they just couldn't tell me no i just did it

there's always that let me do what i want i guess like yeah i used to go to school i would play i would gamble cards or dice in the morning five dollars lunch money i might leave to 20 bucks that day or i might be fucking hungry that day i might lose five bucks i'd lose to you just so you're not walking around hungry i think we was all we was all hungry kids we was all hungry kids trying to take from the next yeah and then you know worst case scenario lunch time come around you steal somebody's french fries or something yeah and uh anyways i would gamble in the morning and then i would go lift weights and then i would go play basketball those are my first two classes weightlifting and then basketball i was short stocky dude so about lunch damn and then it was lunch yes weights basketball

lunch and then i would like you sure it was school bro and then it was like this is school and then it was nap time bro yeah oh damn bro i that was school bro that might be juvenile detention bro i never went to juvenile there hadn't been a class in that whole lineup i know i'll tell you man they knew what i was gonna do they were like put he's gonna play sport or something i knew i wanted to fight i remember my first day in high school or something maybe we had an english assignment i was like ninth grade or something and then they were like what do you want to do and i stood up and almost got into a fight because i said i want to be a fighter and somebody's like get your ass be i said who bitch who gonna be my ass you ain't gonna do it

and they didn't like that now everybody know apk baby that's a popsicle florida we all here we did it we all here all my boys back at school first girl baby well look man best of luck over there in london bro i know you don't need it but and you're just going for press right now when you coming back yeah but you know i fight at presses and stuff people try me it can't be they but you know don't i mean i'm bored but you're bringing me out here for i'm a fighter and you're bringing me out to talk we'll talk we'll see let's see if mvp says some good jokes if he opens up first or if he's just gonna be respectful and like me i'm gonna have to open this shit up you know bring it i'm bringing the heat we might fight at any given chance so be ready

i'll be ready fuck yeah dude be gonna swing at me i'll fucking swing first and last that's the best way to win a fight i'm gonna hit them when they're not looking distract them low blow i gouge bite hard fucking tickle fast tickle mother fucker tickle tickles are good surprise that bitch i'm gonna laugh you fucking hit him dog hit him in the fucking neck bro i'm gonna knock a word out their mouth they didn't know it's about to say uh bologna fucking surprising bro mike perry man i'm a huge fan bro thank you so much for coming to spending time with me man it's nice to see you and your family and uh keep fighting bro it's fun to watch or just keep doing whatever you want to do bro i like watching you whatever you do thank you so much uh deal

it was a pleasure to meet you brother yeah thanks for letting me hit a ufc fighter too bro yeah no doubt sorry thanks for letting me hit a fucking fighter bro i appreciate yeah thank you it's cool the ufc is attached to me like that oh it always well i mean you could do you you i don't it's interesting about you it's like what what else they're gonna make that mike can do well i'm an entertainer ultimately at the end of the day right if it's you know some there's a lot of people entertained by fighting and i try to bring a good fight um i think you know mike tyson did a comedy tour i think you guys are ballsy for going out in front of a crowd just talking what's a different kind of it's like you take these hits but it's like when that when when you tell a joker you say

something and they don't there's not a response there's that moment of like oh right it's a different kind of pain bro it's a different kind of fucking pain you know and then you want more of it that's the interesting thing about it i think i even stripper uh strippers i think are kind of like comedians that there is any way somebody expresses themselves you know doing them windmills on the pole that your balls swinging free your legs too short right you can't have no short legs stripper out there bro that's shit yeah bro and my upper body huh i run man i got good legs you look great i'm not look good i didn't say shit somebody else said that shit bro these mother fuckers around here dog this neighborhood is going downhill but i'm just saying bro you can't have

a short leg is stripper out there bro stick with what you're doing man you're doing great thank you for entertaining the world man thank you so much bro now i'm just floating on the breeze and i feel i'm falling like these leaves i must be cornerstone oh but when i reach that ground i'll share this piece of mind i found i can feel it in my bones but it's gonna take a little time for me to set that parking brake and let myself on my shine that light on me i'll sit and tell you my story shine on me and i will find a song i will sing it just for you and now i've been moving way too fast on the runaway train with a heavy load of my past and these wheels that i've been riding on they want something that the damn they call now just now they just weren't built to