Mike Perry is already title attempting to find opponents for 2025.
The previous UFC fighter and BKFC’s “King of Violence” champion took matchmaking into his personal arms and known as out former UFC welterweight champion Robbie Lawler to a bareknuckle boxing struggle. Perry did so by hopping within the ring, getting on the microphone, and calling out Lawler, who was sitting ringside at Saturday’s Bareknuckle Hollywood occasion in South Florida.
“Who ought to face me subsequent? I see Robbie Lawler within the crowd and I feel he ought to take the gloves off, and he ought to step contained in the sq. circle in opposition to ‘Platinum’ Mike Perry,” Perry mentioned.
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Lawler, 42, retired from combating in July 2023 after stopping Niko Worth at UFC 290. “Ruthless” is likely one of the extra established names at 170 kilos of the final decade. He held the UFC welterweight title from 2014 to 2016. Lawler has defeated many notable names in MMA, together with Nick Diaz, Carlos Condit, Rory MacDonald, Donald Cerrone and Josh Koscheck.
Perry, 33, has risen in fame since his UFC departure in 2021. He’s undefeated as a bareknuckle boxer below BKFC, with a document of 5-0. In his most up-to-date outing, again in July, Perry suffered a TKO defeat to YouTuber turned fighter Jake Paul within the boxing ring.
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