Mike Perry
"Platinum" is 15-8 in MMA, went undefeated across six bare-knuckle fights beating a line of former champions, and headlines Duel Arena 1 in Orlando — the city he fights out of.
| MMA record | 15-8 |
|---|---|
| Wins by knockout | 12 |
| Bare-knuckle record | 6-0 |
| Pro boxing | 0-2, both by knockout |
| Age | 34 |
| Height / reach | 5′10″ / 71″ |
| Born | Flint, Michigan |
| Fights out of | Orlando, Florida |
| Grappling | Purple belt, Brazilian jiu-jitsu |
Fight week
Camp work
Pad work and sparring from the build-up to Duel Arena 1.
The promo piece
Fight-week promotional footage cut around Perry.
Standard build-up footage — pads, sparring, conditioning — and worth watching for one specific thing rather than the montage. Perry's whole game is pressure in straight lines, and what the camp footage shows is whether the engine behind that pressure is where it needs to be for a fight he has said he intends to make violent.
The bare-knuckle years
Perry left the UFC in 2021 and spent the next stretch becoming the face of bare-knuckle boxing. Six fights under the BKFC banner, six wins, and the names on that list are the point: Luke Rockhold and Eddie Alvarez, both former champions, plus Michael Page. He holds the promotion's symbolic King of Violence title.
Bare-knuckle rewards a specific profile — heavy hands, high pain tolerance, forward pressure and no interest in a long technical fight. Perry has all four, which is why the move worked as well as it did.
The return to MMA
In May 2026 he came back to MMA rules against Nate Diaz on Most Valuable Promotions' debut MMA event, streamed on Netflix, and won by second-round TKO on a doctor's stoppage after bloodying Diaz badly.
The detail that puts it in context: it was his first MMA win since a decision over Mickey Gall in June 2020. Twelve of his fifteen wins have come by knockout, and that is the entire shape of his game — he is not a fighter who accumulates points.
What he needs against Danis
To keep it standing and keep walking forward. Perry has said publicly he intends to make it a violent fight and does not plan to move his head much doing it — which is either confidence or an accurate description of his defensive habits, and probably both.
The ring helps him. A cage gives a grappler a wall to work against; ropes give a pressure fighter less space for an opponent to circle away into. That is unpacked in the main event preview.
His risk is the mirror of his strength. Twenty-three professional MMA fights plus six bare-knuckle wars is a lot of damage taken, and a fighter who throws in volume without much head movement is a fighter a grappler can get hold of during an exchange.
More on Danis, and the full card on the Duel Arena 1 page.