{"id":249299,"date":"2017-09-14T11:46:22","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T18:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=249299"},"modified":"2017-09-14T11:46:22","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T18:46:22","slug":"mike-perry-excuse-hurricane-irma-ufc-fight-night-116-pittsburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/mike-perry\/mike-perry-excuse-hurricane-irma-ufc-fight-night-116-pittsburgh\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Perry Isn’t Buying Thiago Alves’ ‘Bullsh*t’ Excuse for UFC Pittsburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"

News broke yesterday that Thiago Alves had to pull out<\/a> of his fight with Mike Perry at UFC Pittsburgh. Originally, the cause was unknown, but it was eventually reported by Ariel Helwani that it was due to complications from Hurricane Irma since Alves is based out of Florida. After hearing this, Perry, who came from Florida himself, isn’t convinced. Luckily someone stepped up<\/a> to replace Alves, but a heated Mike Perry recently voiced his opinion to Mike Dyce at Fansided about his former opponent’s travel problems.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s bullsh-t. I came from Florida, we got more f-cked up than he did. There are so many people here from South Florida. I was just talking to Michael Johnson.\u00a0His coaches from [American Top Team] down there, are here today. They flew up yesterday when he was supposed to. He is feeding y\u2019all bullsh-t. He don\u2019t want to fight, he doesn\u2019t want to retire yet and I was going to put him to sleep. It\u2019s simple as that.\u00a0Does he get the opportunity to fight me after I smash [Alex Reyes]? They need to get me a top-10 opponent after this.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Just talked to Mike Perry, had some thoughts about Thiago Alves’ travel schedule. Coming to @FanSidedMMA<\/a> soon. #UFCPittsburgh<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Mike Dyce (@mikedyce) September 14, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n