Conor McGregor seems to have returned to his 'fires' by Mike Perry, and can even offer him the biggest fight in combat sports.
After his knockout defeat against Jake Paul and the launch of his own dirty boxing champioship promotion with Jon Jones, McGregor claimed famous that he started Perry from BKFC. The former UFC welter weight is perhaps the largest star of Bare Knuckle Boxing, and the move was a shock for fans.
However, the Irishman now claims that he has 'love' for Perry, and has warm him up warmly back to the square circle for another fight. 'Platinum' has already landed on Luke Rockhold and Eddie Alvarez, and even got the Paul fight with gloves last summer.
Conor McGregor performs dramatic U-turn on Mike Perry
During a recent press conference for the upcoming BKFC event, Conor McGregor met the media to discuss a number of topics. One that came up was the idea to fight for the title 'King of Violence', which is currently being held by Perry.
Conor McGregor on Mike Perry: he should come home. Mike should come home. He still shows love for the game and we will always have love for Mike Perry. And yes, I and Mike would certainly be a great fight. pic.twitter.com/l3atuz9kwk
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He did not reject the idea and even explained 'love' because of his old rival and said: 'Platinum does the thing with the big soft gloves, how is the dirty thing called? It's good.
“Mike should come home, he still shows love for the game and we will always have love for Mike Perry. And yes, I and Mike would certainly be a great fight, 100 percent.”
Conor McGregor 'fired Mike Perry after Jake Paul has the defeat
This kind of language of McGregor is a drastic change in relation to the way he wrote about him after his defeat against Paul last summer. Instead of helping one of the best assets of BKFC to dust after a difficult knockout defeat, he immediately and 'fired' him from the company.
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“Hey Mike, you were released,” he wrote to his millions of followers on X, formerly Twitter, in the early hours of the morning before he quickly removed. “And you can compete in your smelly dirty boxing championship, its smell, good luck. You are fired.”
He later repeated the claim and told the Schmo a few months later: 'Mike [Perry] Is fired, but we are in negotiations … We had to give him a small cherry-pick-made title, 'The King of Violence' or whatever you call it. But he was never a world champion. '
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