{"id":249136,"date":"2017-09-12T15:52:37","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T22:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=249136"},"modified":"2017-09-12T15:52:37","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T22:52:37","slug":"mike-perry-t-wood-demian-maia-ufc-pittsburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/mike-perry\/mike-perry-t-wood-demian-maia-ufc-pittsburgh\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Perry Praises &#8216;Smart&#8217; Tyron Woodley and Trashes Demian Maia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Perry just says it how it is, you know? When you have your nickname &#8220;Platinum&#8221; tattooed above your eye in cursive, there&#8217;s no way you can keep a low profile anyway. After a loss to Alan Jouban ended his nine-fight win streak, he&#8217;s about to fight Thiago Alves at UFC Pittsburgh and try to keep in the win column. The outspoken welterweight wildman recently \u00a0voiced his opinion on &#8216;good guy&#8217; Tyron Woodley. The UFC welterweight champion he hopes to fight one day.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"gl4i5h\">\u201cI thought it was a championship performance [against Demian Maia]. I thought [Tyron Woodley] did a great job. Everybody hates on him. I think that\u2019s what they\u2019re supposed to do. I think they\u2019re supposed to hate on \u2018T-Woodley.\u2019 That\u2019s who \u2018T-Woodley\u2019 has become, this hated figure as a champion who just fights smart. People are mad how smart he is.\u00a0I like the champ, he\u2019s a good guy. I\u2019ve talked to him a few times. He knows it\u2019s a possibility one day we\u2019re going to fight, but it is what it is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Get on my level you can&#39;t get on my level you will need a space shuttle or a ladder that&#39;s forever <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/weezy?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#weezy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Platinum Mike Perry (@PlatinumPerry) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PlatinumPerry\/status\/903988211332022272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 2, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"FCIMsv\">&#8220;It\u2019s the fight business, and he ain\u2019t going to have that clean performance against me, because Demian Maia, he can\u2019t throw a damn punch. He couldn\u2019t punch his way out of a wet paper bag. He grabbed him, he ain\u2019t have no wrestling to take him down. He just grabs people, takes the back and hugs on tight. [Jorge] Masvidal did a fantastic job of defending that, he just couldn\u2019t get him off his back, he couldn\u2019t keep him off. \u2018T-Woodley\u2019 is an amazing wrestler and was way too strong. Simple stuff. I\u2019m learning from watching. I\u2019m going to keep it all up here for the future.\u201d\u00a0\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2017\/9\/12\/16291428\/mike-perry-defends-ufc-champion-tyron-woodley-people-are-mad-how-smart-he-is\">Mike Perry on The MMA Hour<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He couldn&#8217;t resist throwing some shade at Demian Maia, but Mike Perry was all compliments for Woodley. It also looks like he&#8217;s keeping an extra close eye for &#8216;the future,&#8217; just in case he gets that title shot. Both Perry and Thiago Silva are currently unranked right now at welterweight, but if Mike Perry doubles up his April elbow KO of Jake Ellenberger with a finish of Alvez, he should see himself on the board.<\/p>\n<p><em>This article first appeared on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\">BJPenn.com<\/a>\u00a0on 9\/12\/2017.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Perry just says it how it is, you know? When you have your nickname &#8220;Platinum&#8221; tattooed above your eye in cursive, there&#8217;s no way you can keep a low profile anyway. 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