Eddie Alvarez didn’t want to address the viral brawl that broke out with past opponent Mike Perry at BKFC KnuckleMania VI this past weekend in Philadelphia, but the former UFC lightweight champion felt obligated to respond after hearing Perry’s version of events.
The brawl caught on video showed Perry talking with several people seated behind him at the event before a shove led to fists flying in a wild melee in the crowd. Perry released a statement on his podcast claiming he “got bumped from behind” and turned to say “excuse me” to the person he then identified as Alvarez’s son’s girlfriend before he says he got into an argument with Alvarez’s son.
“I’m looking at Eddie with a side eye, like, are you going to get either one of them before I start cussing at them and stuff? I’m getting mad,” Perry said. “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 guess. I said like, ‘You’re going to have to get used to that. People are going to speak to her or something.’ That’s when Eddie got up and pushed me really hard.”
In response, Alvarez recounted his side of the entire ordeal and he claims nothing Perry said could be further from the truth of what actually happened.
“I think Mike’s telling the world that he got bumped by a girl and he turned around and he’s like ‘excuse me.’ That’s the first lie of the whole story,” Alvarez told MMA Fighting on Wednesday. “The girl, she was all the way on the side, off to the side, there’s no way she could have bumped him. She didn’t even have to go into the row. She was off to the side. But she was in Mike Perry’s vision, but the girl’s a teenage girl. She’s a little girl. She’s 100 pounds. She’s a teenage girl, that’s my son’s girlfriend Kira. She’s never been to fighting or anything like that and my sons, I have the most respectful sons on Earth. My sons are old school. They were raised old school. Crazy respectful. Mike Perry would snap my son in half. He would never be disrespectful to Mike Perry.
“He turned around and said something pretty nasty to my son’s girlfriend. 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.”
Alvarez claims that’s when the situation escalated with Perry allegedly getting more aggressive towards his son and that’s when he got involved.
“When he said that, Mike turns to my son — he’s 130 pounds, a little guy — says ‘I wasn’t talking to you, I was talking to her.’ You’re bullying a kid,” Alvarez said. “I’m about six seats down from this whole me and [my wife] Jamie are. Mind you, I’m with my family. I go to these things with my family. People are saying Eddie’s team, Eddie’s team — I’m with my family, me and my kids. My jiu-jitsu coach, he’s there and [my son] Eddie’s friend Chuck is there. But other than that, I’m with my family and we’re enjoying the show. 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.
“So I switch seats with Chuck, my son Eddie’s friend, now I’m sitting directly behind Mike. I’m like at least if Mike tries to say something again, because me and Mike are pretty cordial all night, I’ll be like ‘hey Mike, that’s my son’s girlfriend, please don’t do that.’ I’m still upset that he bitched my son up and bullied him. My son is super respectful. My kid’s ain’t from where I’m from. They ain’t from the streets. They’re respectful kids. They’re suburb kids. They know how to fight but they’re not fighters. So I sit behind Mike, he doesn’t turn back around while I’m seated there. But my wife [turns to talk to him] 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*cking father or something.”
Alvarez claimed that Perry appeared to be drunk during the entire altercation and a few moments later is when the incident turned from verbal to physical.
“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 explained. “So 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*ck 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.
“Should my friend Leandro jumped in and hit him? Probably not. Leandro loves me, he’s my brother. He sees shit pop off and it goes nuts. It is what it is. I didn’t instruct a team to beat up Mike Perry nor do I need a team to beat up Mike Perry. If I did want to run with Mike Perry, I’m not bringing my wife and kids. That’s wild. I’m not bringing my wife and kids. I’m bringing my wife and kids to watch a fight.”
Alvarez says his son’s girlfriend was terrified by the entire altercation, especially considering she was attending a fight for the first time that night.
“She was scared to death about this entire thing. Scared to death,” Alvarez said. “You tell me at the end of it, well maybe you should do something about it? That’s what he tells me. I’m trying to save you. You’re wasted. I’m trying take this situation and quarantine it and he’s trying to light a f*cking fire to it. I don’t do that shit.
“I haven’t been in a street fight in I don’t know how long, since I started getting paid for fighting, I ain’t been in a street fight. I’m not that guy anymore, and my sons definitely ain’t that guy. They’re not anything like I was at their age.”
Before the entire brawl unfolded Alvarez says he was more than friendly with Perry and there was no bad blood between them whatsoever despite previously clashing in BKFC. But Alvarez claims that Perry’s behavior that night completely changed his opinion on the ex-UFC welterweight.
“This guy’s a f*cking scumbag,” Alvarez said. “I used to like Mike Perry. I used to think the whole thing was an act and I liked it. I liked the act of Mike Perry. The wild dude who does wild shit and I thought maybe he just put it on for the camera. He’s not. He’s an absolute f*cking scumbag.
“His wife is home, f*cking taking care of the kids. What are you doing? Wasted, drunk as f*ck. He put me in a spot and I’m pretty patient and I’m pretty calculated and I make sure I don’t f*ck up or do shit wrong. He put me in a real f*cked up spot. I’m not sorry that my kids f*cked him up. I have an 18-year-old kid and a 20-year-old kid, I’m not sorry that they f*cking dumped on him. I’m not or my wife f*cking hit him, I’m not sorry about that. I never will be. I should apologize that my friend Leandro jumped in and Eddie’s best friend Chuck jumped in. That probably shouldn’t have happened but it did. I’m not in control of this situation. But nor did I want to be in this f*cking situation. I don’t want to have this drunk f*ck in front of me, doing what he does, acting a fool.”
During the brawl, Alvarez says he never actually threw a punch at Perry but instead put him in a guillotine choke before security eventually intervened.
“I protected his entire head. Nobody hit him in the head really,” Alvarez said. “I had him in a guillotine and I held him there. I didn’t f*cking punch him. I didn’t stop his head in the f*cking concrete like I should have.
“But I protected him, and after I protected him, I decided I want to bury this story. Because I don’t want him to get in trouble with his f*cking wife or his family. But he wanted to go public and say some stupid shit. Just bury it. Are you a f*cking idiot?”
The next day, Alvarez says Perry actually reached out to him directly on Instagram to apologize for the altercation but he believes even that was done with an ulterior motive.
“Mike sent me a disappearing video that I clicked on and the video said this and it was f*cking disappearing. Why?” Alvarez said. “It said ‘Hey Eddie, I was drunk, that’s not an excuse. That’s not an excuse for what I did. I was wasted but that’s not an excuse. It was kind of cool to get beat up by your whole family,’ which that was funny to me actually. ‘It was cool to get beat up by your whole family but I don’t have any hard feelings and I hope that you don’t.’
“The only reason he sent this video because I had a podcast that I was going on that was already scheduled way before any of this happened. I wasn’t going on this podcast to say a godd*mned thing about Mike Perry or anything. Me and Jon Anik and Kenny Florian, we scheduled this podcast two weeks ago. He was worried that I was about to go on this podcast and his wife’s about to find out what the f*ck he’s up to. That’s what was he was worried about.”
Alvarez promises he was completely fine letting the entire situation stay private outside of the videos that ended up posted on social media but he says Perry’s explanation forced him to respond.
Now Alvarez says his opinion on Perry has changed forever and there’s no going back now.
“This ain’t even like me to air someone’s dirty laundry but you’re not going to go bash my family publicly,” Alvarez said. “He made my kid the bad guy in this whole situation, my son Eddie, which is wild. Anybody meets Eddie, loves Eddie. He’s crazy respectful. He would never disrespect anyone. That’s what’s really, really bothering me.
“Piece of shit. Grade A piece of shit. The dude’s no good and he can’t be no good. Good people don’t do this … He made the entire thing happen. From start to finish.”
Following Alvarez’s interview, Perry posted a response on Twitter claiming he may seek legal action over the altercation.
“He’s a liar, fuck you eddie, 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… 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.“ – Perry wrote on X on Wednesday.
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