Mike Perez returning at cruiserweight vs Tommy McCarthy

[TheLeprechaun]

Good fight.

[knockout]

Looking in amazing physical condition , was sparring Joe Joyce last week and they put a few photos up on Instagram ! He looks like a Cuban amateur again rather than a Cuban pro ;)

[crusader]

Probably where he should've been

He was fighting at LHW (178 limit in the amateurs) as a 20-year-old and didn't exactly have a long frame to fill out.

[Tuan_Jim]

He looks like a Cuban amateur again rather than a Cuban pro

That's the line of the day!

[TheGingerBomber]

Really looking forward to this fight, am I right to assume it's on the Haskins vs Burnett undercard? Good stuff if so.

[Taansend]

Good luck to him. Was never the same after Mago.

[keirw]

Wish Perez all the best, he seemed to loose his edge after Magomed tragedy.

If he is back to his best it will be a good fight, but if he is still gun shy, it will end up being a few quid in his pocket and a decent name on Mcarthys record.

[Stuarty]

Didn't see this one coming. I liked the look of Perez when I first saw him. I thought him and Povetkin would've been a decent tussle but he ended up getting planted early bells. As someone said above, he never seemed the same after the fight with the big Russian.

[Stuarty]

Really looking forward to this fight, am I right to assume it's on the Haskins vs Burnett undercard? Good stuff if so.

Aye it's on that undercard mate. Perez is actually scheduled to fight this weekend in Dublin as well I'd noticed.

[TheGingerBomber]

Really looking forward to this fight, am I right to assume it's on the Haskins vs Burnett undercard? Good stuff if so.

Aye it's on that undercard mate. Perez is actually scheduled to fight this weekend in Dublin as well I'd noticed.

Hopefully just a routine warm up!

[TheGingerBomber]

Really looking forward to this fight, am I right to assume it's on the Haskins vs Burnett undercard? Good stuff if so.

Aye it's on that undercard mate. Perez is actually scheduled to fight this weekend in Dublin as well I'd noticed.

Hopefully just a routine warm up!

[freddydoesdallas]

Has there been many people who have cut this kind of weight and been successful?

[crusader]

The hope with Perez would be that he's presumably cutting a lot of unhelpful fat, rather than boiling himself down drastically.

I'm actually not convinced that the Mago fight was the turning point for him; his supposed downfall coincided with steps up in class, and he didn't appear gun-shy to me against Takam or Jennings. Stamina seemed more of a factor in those bouts, although perhaps the mental baggage of the Mago fight impaired his preparation and hence contributed to his lack of energy...

[SAPFO]

He's been out 2 years, thats enough time to do the weight properly, although he may have sat out his prime.


This late career weight cutting needs a thread