Los Angeles — BKFC’s “King of Violence” lived up to his name as he returned to mixed martial arts at this past weekend’s Rousey vs. Carano card in Los Angeles.
“Platinum” Mike Perry put Nate Diaz away in the second round of the Netflix card’s co-main event, having opened up a cut that cornerman “Stitch” Duran couldn’t close up. The TKO win is a big one for Perry, who has reinvented himself since exiting the UFC several years back.
Perry, for one, had a feeling following the second round that the fight was going to be stopped. “Sitting down in the second round, I was like ‘there’s no way it’s going to continue.’ I knew. And sure enough, there was too much blood,” Perry noted, speaking with media outlets including Cageside Press following Saturday’s card. “I felt kinda bad, but that’s my job. I’m good at it, I worked really hard, I trained really hard, I’m violent as fuck and I can take it too.”
While a rematch with Diaz has been floated, other names are out there for Mike Perry moving forward. One is the long-brewing rivalry between himself and Darren Till. That could come in bare-knuckle, given Till recently signed with BKFC himself.
“I mean, he’s going to BKFC. I’m still good at that, I like that. But I like MMA too. I mean, I think I was the best welterweight in the world tonight. To be honest with you, I think I would hurt anybody, damage anybody. I made this weight crazy, I looked crazy physically, so I think people are going to be coming at [me with] fight offers, whatever. I can be ready to fight, but it’s got to make sense. I made noise tonight.”
Perry seems to have fully embraced his place as combat sports’ violence king of the moment. “Much respect to my opponent, and I appreciate all the fans, but I’m a really mean guy in this fighting stuff. So if they want to offer me some fights, I’ll f*ck somebody up,” he later added.
Watch the full MVP MMA: Rousey vs. Carano press conference with Mike Perry above.
