JRE MMA Show #141 with Mike Perry

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Yes, sir.

What's happening? Good to see you, brother.

All right, man. Great to be here.

You want some coffee? You drink coffee?

Sure, yeah. Sure, I'll take some.

All right. Dude, you have had a, a fascinating renaissance. Cheers, sir.

Cheers, brother. Mm, it's hot as fuck.

This bare knuckle boxing thing has been fascinating to watch, man, because it's like someone designed the perfect sport for you.

Mm.

You know what I mean?

I, yes, I do.

Like, you, uh, you are particularly-

I feel like it was made for me.

... well-suited for that, and it's, I find it so fascinating because there's a, there's a certain le- and I really wanted to ask you about this 'cause there's a certain something that applies to bare knuckle fighting that just, it, it, it, it's like there's a pain, and there's a danger, and there's a wildness of it that even some very great fighters, they get to a cert- they're in there, and they're like, "I don't like this."

Right.

They're too used to gloves. They're too used to whatever they're used to. They don't, they don't want that experience once they find it, once they're in there, but you seem to thrive on it.

You know, it's just a real fight to me. Um, even though, I mean, I still go to the gym and I do MMA with the guys, like, I'm, I love boxing so much though. It's, it's my forte. It's, like, what I'm good at, um, 'cause I'm, I'm cool to take a punch, get hit. That's fine. I'll take a hit to land a better one on you, and, um, in bare knuckle, I mean, there's a lot of opportunity to fight guys who, um, I mean, I did fight Julian Lane who had experience in it.

Yeah.

He had nine fights in it-

Yeah.

... when we fought, and then I fought two guys who hadn't done it yet, so, you know, um ...

But it's, it's just, like, like, let's talk about those two guys, like, first of all, Michael Venom Page, that guy is super talented.

Yeah.

I mean, he's extraordinary. When you watch him fight in MMA, and he's a guy that I kind of predicted one day. I was like, the one skill that's m- that you don't see a lot of in MMA is this crazy blitz point fighting style 'cause those guys can cover crazy distances, those, those really good-

Yeah.

... point fighters, and he was a really good point fighter, and, um, he was the first guy that kind of shoo- showed how that style could apply in MMA. He's so elusive and so hard to hit, and, um, you know, you just put it on him.