Mike Perry will look to emulate his namesake Mike Tyson when he fights Jake Paul. Perry, who came in as Tyson’s replacement, is looking to derail ‘The Problem Child’s’ hype train and his boxing career on July 20 in Tampa, Florida and he plans on doing it the way Tyson used to, back in the 90s.
Ahead of the fight, the trash-talking has been relentless from the BKFC fighter. He believes he has what it takes to hand Paul his second-ever loss inside the ring; the first came via the cold hands of one Tommy Fury.
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In a recent interview with MMA Fighting, he revealed his game plan for taking on Paul. Talking about a pressure style of boxing, the BKFC champion said that he would get involved in a Tyson style brawl with the younger Paul brother.
“I’m gonna put a pressure style on him, a Mike Tyson Brawl style boxing is what I bring to the table….I wanna do what Tommy did but better”
‘Platinum’ Mike is looking to put pressure on Paul from the onset of the fight.
Now that does come with its own risks, like getting KO’ed cold but then again, the former UFC fighter has a legendary chin and will put that to good use against Paul.
Perry actually does not even think the YouTuber-turned-boxer has the power to knock him out and says he will walk through his punches unfazed.
Now, it is no secret that both fighters are expert trash-talkers. Paul even showed the lengths he would go to when he prank called Perry recently.
Boxing has prank calls now
As the fight draws closer, a number of media outlets are looking to interview both fighters to get their thoughts.
Using this to his advantage, Paul posed as boxing reporter Dan Rafael and prank-called ‘Platinum’ Mike and asked him a few questions.
Important questions, like:
“What are you gonna do when Jake Paul knocks you the f*ck out?”
Jake Paul prank called Mike Perry and Mike started going off on him
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Perry then quickly realized he was being pranked and went off on the ‘reporter’ and threw in a few cuss words for the diversity of content.
‘The Problem Child’ could do nothing but laugh as Perry cussed him out on call trying to figure out who it was on the other side of the call.
