Det stod nyligen klart att welterviktaren Mike Perry i sin nästa match kommer att ta sig an Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone i en match som kommer att äga rum på UFCs 25 års jubileumsgala. I sin senaste match lyckades Perry besegra Paul Felder och vinsten innebar att Perry bröt en förlustsvit på 2 matcher. I en intervju med Will Harris berättar Perry bland annat om hur han har blandat in sina känslor i hans senaste matcher.
You know, I feel like I fight with a lot of emotion. I remember Greg Jackson saying “try not to be giving it away”, I’d be giving it away, I’d be telegraphing with my face that I’m about to hit you. I just can’t stay relaxed all the way. I just try to view myself as a savage. In my last fight I remember I went into the octagon and I was dancing around and I looked up at the TV-screen and I saw myself, I made sure that i looked at myself in the way I feel I should run into a war.
Perry berättar även om hur han ser upp till Cerrone men att kommer att behöva “döda” honom när de väl möts.
I’m saying if I got swords or guns and I got to do what I got to do. It’s all about how I’m picturing that moment. I don’t know, to get that aggression out I got to fucking be mean and now I’m fighting someone that I look up to, someone who was kind to me and friendly to me but I got to fucking kill this guy.
I sin senaste match lyckades Perry besegra Felder via ett delat domslut när de möttes under UFC 226.
