As fans countdown to the upcoming boxing fight next weekend, Jake Paul has accepted the offer to rematch Mike Perry in Mixed Martial Arts.
Whilst it definitely just isn’t the ‘best’ boxing event of the month, Jake Paul versus Mike Perry will likely be the most-watched fight of July – and if all goes to plan, we’ll also see ‘The Problem Child’ rematching ‘Platinum’ under a slightly different ruleset.
Jake Paul accepts Mike Perry’s MMA rematch offer
Last week, Jake Paul’s manager Nakisa Bidarian appeared on The MMA Hour with Ariel Helwani to tease that ‘The Problem Child’ can be open to rematching Mike Perry in MMA on one condition.
“I believe if the fight is smart, that’s absolutely something that Jake would really like to do,” claimed Bidarian, noting that such a rematch would depend entirely on how much demand there was from the fans.
“Let’s see the way it does, the way it performs if there’s an appetite for that, Jake has said to me 100% he can be right down to do MMA with Mike Perry.”
Now, around every week later, Paul has seemingly accepted the offer to follow up the boxing fight with Perry with a clash within the PFL Smart Cage – with Paul having famously signed for the promotion back in 2023.
In a clip posted to social media by DAZN Boxing, Paul responded to his manager’s tease: “I’m down like, after I beat Mike Perry in boxing, f*** it, we could run it back in MMA.
“I need an MMA fight. I mean, the Smart Cage is literally right there,” he said, pointing over his shoulder.
“And I believe once I start MMA, my wrestling background goes to come back out and I believe I’ll be a really dangerous MMA fighter as well.
“So, Mike Perry can get it. My hands are trisexual – they’ll try anything once and that’s MMA.”
In the identical clip, Perry may be seen reacting to the comments made by Paul regarding a possible rematch in MMA – and it’s secure to say that the combat sports veteran doubts The Problem Child’s intentions are real.
“Cap, cap! Why not bare knuckle? Why not boxing bare-knuckle?
“I’ll take Jake’s back. Jiu-jitsu just isn’t something that just, wrestling and Jiu-jitsu, that’s not only something that you simply keep in your back pocket… I don’t know, I saw Logan Paul and Paulo Costa messing around but like how serious is that.”
Perry then brought up the proven fact that the 2 have already sparred together before, and whilst that session was within the boxing ring versus the MMA cage, ‘Platinum’ believes this is sufficient to scare Paul away from accepting such a rematch.
“I don’t let people just have easy ones on me, if we’re within the ring and we’re training or whatever.
“I asked my wife last night, I used to be like ‘You were there, you saw it – what did you see the day that we sparred?’ She said she saw me have him up on the ropes, she said she felt just like the team was protecting him.”
Mike Perry also called out by fellow retired UFC star
Whilst Mike Perry is already a bonified legend within the UFC and a licensed superstar over in BKFC, ‘Platinum’ knows that an enormous win over someone with the next of Jake Paul might be his ticket to mainstream superstardom.
Whether the combat sports veteran does indeed opt to return to MMA to rematch Paul or return to the world of bare-knuckle boxing, there’ll be a queue of fighters wanting to step in there against ‘Platinum’ after July 20.
In actual fact, Perry could have already got his next BKFC fight already lined up after fellow UFC veteran Uriah Hall called him out on a recent podcast appearance.
“I’d fight Mike Perry. I’d dabble in bare knuckle. I’d simply because he was talking some s**t,” said Hall, referencing a dispute that they had over some divisive comments made by Perry back in 2021.
Mike Perry vs Jake Paul is scheduled to go down on Saturday, July 20, live to tell the tale DAZN PPV.
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