“Platinum” Mike Perry has never been afraid to swap trash talk with his UFC rivals, but his latest target came as a bit of a surprise.\u00a0Last week, the UFC welterweight took a shot at Hollywood action star Michael Jai White for allegedly disrespecting the late, great Kimbo Slice.<\/p>\n
And now, White has responded.<\/p>\n
This bizarre saga began when Perry caught wind of some comments from White that he deemed disrespectful of Kimbo Slice.<\/p>\n
\u201dI told Kimbo I\u2019d teach him some pointers, the same way I\u2019ve done with a lot of champions in the past,\u201d White said in a video posted to his YouTube<\/a> channel (via MMA Mania<\/a>) . \u201cSo me and my training partner Armani, who played Big Lamonte in the movie, agreed to train him. But Kimbo became a little too … frustrated with the process. He was still a little freaked out and felt dominated, and sometimes that messes with a fighter\u2019s psyche.<\/p>\n \u201dFor me, I always loved to learn something new, even if that meant getting my ass kicked cuz it made me better,\u201d White continued. \u201cI wasn\u2019t there to kick anybody\u2019s ass. I was there to share. But some fighters are just too uncomfortable with new things, even if it\u2019s proven to work. Believe me, I\u2019ve run into a lot of this in the past. I don\u2019t get it.\u201d<\/p>\n Perry, keen to defend Kimbo’s honor, called White out and challenged him to a bare-knuckle, backyard fight.<\/p>\n An actor recently was saying how he was trying to teach kimbo something too difficult for kimbo to grasp. I think you actors better stay in the movies. 1 knee make your nose look like special effects<\/p>\n — Platinum Mike Perry (@PlatinumPerry) January 3, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n