BKFC titleholder Mike Perry and former opponent Eddie Alvarez got involved in a wild brawl this past weekend at BKFC KnuckleMania 6 in Philadelphia, and Perry said he understands Alvarez’s actions.
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wrote on social media “you can’t f*ck with someone’s family and expect shit to be cordial.” Perry, who assures he never meant to be disrespectful toward Alvarez’s family, recalled being sitting on front row for the BKFC event when he “got bumped form behind.”
“I turned around like, ‘Hey, excuse me.’ It was Eddie Alvarez, his son’s girlfriend,” Perry said. “I said, ‘Excuse me, watch out’ or something. And then the son kind of leans in and I was like, ‘I was talking to her.’ But that pissed him off. He was talking and 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, you know, little hotheads can say some shit.
“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. 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.”
Perry said he was by himself ringside, accompanied only by his manager, when he “slipped” and got jumped by a group of people.
“None of them started throwing punches until I fell down,” Perry said. “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. You know, I said something to his son, to disrespected 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.”
Perry defeated Alvarez via corner stoppage to claim the inaugural BKFC “King of Violence” championship when they met in Salt Lake City in 2023. Alvarez only fought once since, another corner stoppage defeat in BKFC against Jeremy Stephens in January 2025.
Perry continued his combat sports career with wins over fellow UFC veterans Thiago Alves and Jeremy Stephens in BKFC, improving to 6-0 under the promotion’s banner. He’s expected to face “the biggest name that he ever fought times 5” around May in Florida, BKFC president David Feldman teased recently.
