Filed under: Featured , News , UFC , Videos PITTSBURGH – UFC welterweight Mike Perry is no stranger to last-minute fight withdrawals, though he can’t remember the last guy to do it before onetime title challenger Thiago Alves . “Sometimes, I’ve got to watch what I say, because I scare these guys away,” Perry on Thursday told MMAjunkie after a workout. “I don’t know if I scared Thiago. I might have. “They posted (my knockout of Jake Ellenberger) this week and said it was the ‘Knockout of the Week.’ He might have seen that and replayed it in his head.” Perry is irritated at the opportunity lost by not getting to fight Alves, who challenged for the UFC’s welterweight title in 2009 and who withdrew from the FS1-televised co-headliner at Saturday’s UFC Fight Night 116 for undisclosed reasons. Perry (10-1 MMA, 3-1 UFC) claims the matchup has been in the works on three separate occasions since Alves (22-11 MMA, 14-8 UFC) called him out, only to see the fight evaporate.
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UFC Fight Night 116′s Mike Perry not so subtly accuses Thiago Alves of ducking – MMA Junkie