{"id":321758,"date":"2019-08-08T10:18:41","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T17:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=321758"},"modified":"2019-08-08T10:19:22","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T17:19:22","slug":"mike-perry-teases-new-approach-at-ufc-uruguay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/mike-perry-teases-new-approach-at-ufc-uruguay\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Perry teases new approach at UFC Uruguay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Perry is now just days away from a scrap with Vicente Luque, which co-headlines Saturday&#8217;s UFC Uruguay card on <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/how-to-watch-ufc\/\">ESPN+<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of this card, this Perry vs. Luque fight is viewed by many as a frontrunner for the evening&#8217;s Fight of the Night honors, due in large part to Perry&#8217;s history of unbridled aggression in the cage. Yet from the sounds of it, we may see a different version of Mike Perry than the one we&#8217;re used to.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UFCNews\/status\/1159188460143407105\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UFC News<\/a> ahead of UFC Uruguay, Perry detailed how his mentality and approach have changed since he began his UFC career. He&#8217;s now more focused on fighting smart \u2014 both to preserve his body and win his bouts.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;I&#39;ve grown up and matured, and there are smarter ways to go in there.&quot;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PlatinumPerry?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PlatinumPerry<\/a>&#39;s approach has evolved since first entering the UFC, and he talks about how he focuses on fighting smarter than he did earlier in his career. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UFCUruguay?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UFCUruguay<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3uGb9ApML8\">pic.twitter.com\/3uGb9ApML8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; UFC News (@UFCNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UFCNews\/status\/1159188460143407105?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 7, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve grown up and matured, and there are smarter ways to go in there,&#8221; Perry began. &#8220;I try to look toward the future and think about being a beat-up meathead, and how I don&#8217;t want to be that. I want to be logical and think and be able to use my brain and function. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">&#8220;The crowd and our bosses say things like &#8216;you&#8217;ve gotta go out there and you&#8217;ve gotta try and you&#8217;ve gotta be exciting.&#8217; Like on Contender Series for example. It&#8217;s all stuff to amp people up so that it gets in their head and they can&#8217;t stick to the game plan, which is being smart and technical and moving not getting hurt and not beating on your own body trying to hurt [your opponent]. I battle myself with it all the time. Do I want to go out there and smash my fists into this guy as many times as it takes to beat him? Or do I play the points, which I happen to be really good at?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now guys are better, and they see me coming a certain way, so I can see myself turning it around, for myself. Guys expect me to be one way, then I come in a totally different way and they don&#8217;t have the speed to match [me], the physicality to match, because all my years of hard efforts in my training will put me over the top.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Do you think we&#8217;ll see a more tentative Mike Perry in the UFC Uruguay co-main event?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPENN.COM<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 8\/7\/2019. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Perry is now just days away from a scrap with Vicente Luque, which co-headlines Saturday&#8217;s UFC Uruguay card on ESPN+. 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