Mike Perry might have laughed off his brawl with Eddie Alvarez’s family at KnuckleMania 6 over the weekend, but Eddie Alvarez is not laughing.
Footage from the event in Philadelphia caught a visibly intoxicated Perry talking to Eddie’s son in the front row moments before Alvarez shoves “Platinum” to the ground and a brawl breaks out. Perry later said it started over getting bumped. He turned around and asked them to watch out and it all turned mean quick, with Alvarez shoving him to the floor.
For his part, Perry was quick to blame alcohol and quicker to let bygones be bygones over the situation. Not Alvarez, who called Perry a “f–king scumbag” while sharing his side of the story with MMA Fighting.
“He turned around and said something pretty nasty to my son’s girlfriend,” Alvarez said. “My son turns to her and said ‘What did he say?’ Then he said it again. The only thing my son did hear of him was [Mike Perry] saying ‘I’m sorry, did that make you uncomfortable? What I said, did that make you uncomfortable?’ My son heard that and my son said he was sincerely like questioning Mike like ‘what did you say to make her uncomfortable?’ He wanted to know.”
“Eddie turns to me and he’s like, ‘Dad, he’s trying to hit on Kira, he’s trying to talk to Kira,’ and he’s kind of bullying my son Eddie. So I’m like let me just switch seats, maybe Mike doesn’t know. Maybe he’s just not aware that’s my son and that’s his girlfriend.”
“My wife, and she’s still respectful to him, nothing popped off yet, nobody’s freaking out or getting nuts — she just says, ‘I want to let you know this is my son Eddie and that’s his girlfriend who you were just trying to talk to, just trying to pick up and this is my son and that was disrespectful.’ Mike turns to my son and he’s basically telling him, ‘That’s going to happen. When you have a girl, guys are going to try to talk to them.’ Like he’s his f–king father or something.”
“He tells my son, he’s telling Eddie he should do something about it. If he didn’t like it, he should do something,” Alvarez continued. “So a 130 pound kid should do something to Mike Perry if he didn’t like him trying to talk to his girl. He turns to me and says to me ,’I’m sorry, I know I’m wrong but I think you should do something about it.’ To my face like that. What the f–k am I supposed to do? You’re a drunk mess, trying to bitch up my son, trying to talk to a teenage girl, my whole family is there. My son Anthony is there. You put me in a real bad spot. Like a terrible spot as a father.”
That interview led to Mike Perry no longer being so chill about the incident.
“He’s a liar, f–k you Eddie,” Perry tweeted. “What I said was true because I was having a good time being nice to everyone who I crossed paths with, and you sat behind me. Abraham Kawa saw my hat land in my lap, we were 4-6 seats in front row.
“I turned around because my hat fell and saw a girl, and your son slid in after I said excuse me,” he continued. “This is not a business transaction, you’re an idiot for saying this for drama because now legal action will have to be taken and others will need to be interviewed, what was in that girls cup? You say I said inappropriate things? What did I say? Forget you.”
