Ex-UFC star Mike Perry turned down the chance to field on Jake Paul and Mike Tyson’s undercard.
Perry claims he was provided a struggle with Julio Cesar Chavez Jr, the son of legendary three-weight world champion Julio Cesar Chavez, on July 20.
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But regardless of the huge publicity he would have inevitably acquired for preventing on a Netflix card headlined by two of the largest names in boxing, Perry insists the pay wasn’t adequate to get him to signal on the dotted line.
“There have been some issues on the desk with that, and the pay wasn’t unimaginable, particularly contemplating the opponent,” Perry advised The MMA Hour with Ariel Helwani.
“I used to be like oh, I’m eager about being on the Mike Tyson Netflix card to get that publicity towards this, licensed, skilled boxer.
“However the cash and there was another choice that might be and I may solely select one among them.
“It was like, there was one other choice to have more cash, and probably opens extra doorways, and there’s some incentives concerned that I used to be like, this might be extra attention-grabbing.
“That [fight with Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.] would’ve been cool, however [it’s not happening].”
Perry left the UFC in 2021 in pursuit of larger paydays.
He joined bare-knuckle boxing promotion BKFC one 12 months later and has now earned more cash in his final two fights with the organisation than he did in his total profession with the UFC.
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Perry fought 15 occasions underneath the UFC banner and acquired a complete of $1.3million from all his fights mixed.
By comparability, he banked a outstanding $1.7m for his BKFC bouts towards former UFC light-weight champion Eddie Alvarez and welterweight title challenger Thiago Alves.
Paul and Tyson are anticipated to earn round $20m every for his or her crossover conflict whereas the co-feature attraction between Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano will command a reasonably penny as effectively.
Subsequently, it’s maybe no shock that Netflix could not have been keen to match Perry’s wage calls for.
To date no different fights have been added to the undercard though there are anticipated to be some Most Beneficial Promotions (MVP) prospects on the invoice.
