Mike Perry hits back at Jake Paul\u2019s offer for boxing rematch before they\u2019ve even fought Instagram\/JakePaul\/OverdogspodJake Paul is already open to a rematch with \u2018Platinum\u2019 Mike Perry ahead of their match-up, but he doesn\u2019t want to do it in the boxing ring. So, the ex-UFC star has an idea. When Jake Paul\u2019s highly-anticipated summer fight with Mike Tyson had to be rescheduled, the YouTuber-turned-boxer had to call upon a backup fighter to take \u2018Iron\u2019 Mike\u2019s place. That led him to former UFC star Mike Perry, who has a boxing background. The two fighters will meet in the ring on July 20, but the \u2018Problem Child\u2019 already looking past that. He\u2019s rescheduled that fight with Tyson for the end of the year, and he\u2019s open to a rematch with Perry. However, Jake wouldn\u2019t want to run it back in the boxing ring \u2013 he wants Perry to be his first opponent in MMA. And, the former UFC star is open to doing it, with a twist too. \u201cI\u2019m down, like. When I beat Mike Perry in boxing, f*ck it, we can run it in MMA,\u201d the YouTuber told DAZN Boxing. \u201cI want an MMA fight. I mean, the Smart Cage is literally right there and I think, once I start MMA, my wrestling background is going to come out. \u201cI think I\u2019ll be a very dangerous, dangerous MMA fighter as well. So, Mike Perry can get it.\u201d The former UFC star called those claims \u201ccap\u201d and questioned if Jake would be done to do a bare-knuckle fight instead. \u201cWhy not bare knuckle? I\u2019ll take Jake\u2019s back. Wrestling and Jiu-Jitsu, that\u2019s not something you just keep in your back pocket,\u201d he said. Jake has been keen to get an opponent penciled in for his PFL debut and had been expected to fight at the end of the year. That has been shifted though because of his focus on boxing. So, we\u2019re still in a waiting period to see him inside the cage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mike Perry hits back at Jake Paul\u2019s offer for boxing rematch before they\u2019ve even fought Instagram\/JakePaul\/OverdogspodJake Paul is already open to a rematch with \u2018Platinum\u2019 Mike Perry ahead of their match-up, but he doesn\u2019t want to do it in the boxing ring. So, the ex-UFC star has an idea. When Jake Paul\u2019s highly-anticipated summer fight […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}