Alvarez has a great boxing technique and can avoid the knockout blow. We think the TO bet will be more interesting. This is because Mike is younger, bigger, and has more experience in bare-knuckle fighting. But the oddsmakers have Perry as the favorite. The most popular message in the fan community is, 'We can't wait to see these guys beat the crap out of each other.' Still, it's pretty hard to predict a winner here, as all three of Perry's bare-knuckle fights and Alvarez's debut have been very close. This bout is a big win for the promotion. If he don’t stop fighting, I think the ref’s going to stop him from fighting.
I respect Mike Perry and what he does and his resilience, (but) I’m going to hit him too much, too often, too hard. But when you’re going against another fighter like myself, who has all that, and all of them boxes are checked, then you’re going to have to rely on your skill and your game plan, and something more than just grit and will to get you by.
He makes up for a lot of the lack of his stuff with his toughness, his grit, his will – that kind of stuff.
