One of those brawls at KnuckleMania was between “Platinum” Mike Perry and former opponent Eddie Alvarez, whom Perry beat up so bad at BKFC 56 in 2023 that Alvarez’s corner stopped the fight after the second round. Video footage of the moment shows Perry talking to Alvarez’s son and then Alvarez giving Perry a big shove that put “Platinum” on the ground. And then the pummeling from all sides began.
“They welcomed me to Philly as one of their own,” Perry joked about the situation on X (formerly Twitter). “And that floor was slippery as heck & his wife fell on her face, and I laughed at her looks like I was just down underneath everybody slipping for the first minute.”
Asked what started the fight, Perry tweeted “Vodka.”
Now “Platinum” has gone on his Overdogs Podcast to shed more light on exactly what caused the fracas with Eddie Alvarez’s family.
“I got bumped from behind,” Perry explained. “I was in the front row. I turned around like, ‘Hey, excuse me.’ It was Eddie Alvarez’s son’s girlfriend. I said, ‘Excuse me, watch out,’ or something. And then the son kinda leans in and I was like, ‘I was talking to her,’ but that pissed him off. He was talking, then the wife just keeps screaming and yelling at me. And I was like, ‘Look, I’m sorry.’”
“So then the son gets on me about my family, and he’s saying, ‘Look, little hotheads can say some s–t.’ I’m looking at Eddie with a side eye, like, ‘Are you gonna get either one of them before I start cussing at them and stuff?’ I’m getting mad. I’m lit. I was lit when I got there. So when the kid said that to me, I got a little heated. He got to me. I said, ‘You’re gonna have to get used to that. People gonna speak to her,’ or something.”
“That’s when Eddie got up and pushed me really hard, and it’s like I just slipped,” Perry continued. “None of them started throwing punches until I fell down. I didn’t know who any of these people were. I didn’t even realize that many people was doing that. I wasn’t really getting hit. And then this one guy comes tries to knock him out, almost knocks out the girlfriend.”
Perry sounded more amused than angry about the situation.
“You know, I said something to his son to disrespect his son or whatever because he pissed me off. Eddie was doing what a dad should do, and he wasn’t really trying to get me on the ground. I don’t think from angles I saw, he wasn’t really trying to get in there … I be solo. I was next to my manager. At first, he was like [protecting me], but then he kinda just got body pushed out. And it’s okay, because I’m the fighter, you know? I’m used to it.”
Perry will hopefully return to the BKFC ring soon for an official fight, which will be just his second fight since a July 2024 loss to Jake Paul. According to BKFC president David Feldman, “Platinum’s” next opponent is “the biggest name that he ever fought times five. Huge name.”
“I am excited and I hope it does come together, [it] would be an honor,” Perry said of the match-up. “He’s definitely a legend. He’s done some legendary s–t, and we’re gonna probably get mean.”
