Mike Perry responds to BKFC boss, gets real about bare-knuckle future after Nate Diaz fight
Mike Perry is putting the gloves back on for his fight against Nate Diaz — and it may be hurting his relationship with BKFC.
Life outside MMA has treated Mike Perry better than life within it. Yet, after becoming arguably the biggest superstar in bare-knuckle boxing, he'll put his old four-ounce gloves back on for a showdown with Nate Diaz on Netflix as part of Jake Paul's Most Valuable Promotions event May 16. Perry, 34, has gone on a tear throughout the bare-knuckle boxing world with BKFC since 2022, winning all six of his bouts with the promotion.
However, Perry's relationship with BKFC hit a snag when he boxed the aforementioned Paul in 2024, while simultaneously launching his own Dirty Boxing promotion. BKFC founder Dave Feldman was openly upset about Perry's decisions, but ultimately brought him back to the promotion for a fight against Jeremy Stephens last October . Perry scored another win with a fifth-round stoppage, but now finds himself once again in an awkward spot with his primary fighting home.
Earlier this month, Feldman told MMA Fighting he had "big plans" in place for his biggest star until Perry's focus shifted elsewhere. Reacting to the BKFC boss' comments in-studio Wednesday, Perry said on "The Ariel Helwani Show" he's "sorry to hear" those plans couldn't coincide timing-wise. "I'm getting an opportunity here, and as a fighter, independent contractor, I gotta do business," Perry told Uncrowned.
"I gotta make money. So getting to the money, apparently we had the one out [in our BKFC contract], which was the [Paul] boxing match. I didn't know it was a one-out type of thing.
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