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Forward of his battle towards Jake Paul on Saturday, Mike Perry introduced he’s beginning his personal fight sports activities group referred to as Soiled Boxing Championship, per TMZ Sports.
In accordance with the brand new league’s website, the game will mix MMA with conventional boxing for a novel spin on fight sports activities.
“Soiled Boxing Championship is new super-fast and close-action fight sport that packs world class MMA and classic boxing right into a pair of five-ounce gloves and an 18-foot certifiably ‘DIRTY’ competitors ring,” the web site says.
Soiled Boxing Championship will function a “floor and pound” rule the place fighters are allowed to strike an opponent whereas down. Fighters may also use five-ounce gloves “for extra affect energy whereas sustaining some safety to keep away from damaged knuckles and fingers.”
The brand new sport may also “deal with finishes,” disallowing grappling, kicking or submissions. The web site explains that the group will take a “expertise first focus,” with an emphasis on truthful pay.
“Me and my group have been engaged on this for fairly a while,” Perry mentioned. “We have tried to trace at this, we have been making manner and we’re able to make the announcement that that is coming very quickly. We’re very near being sanctioned by commissions and we’re able to get some athletes and get a card collectively and put a battle on someday this yr.”
In accordance with TMZ, Perry’s opponent on Saturday, Paul, is amongst fighters who may doubtlessly be a part of the league.
Earlier than Perry can shift his focus to his new group, he’ll look to get an enormous win towards Paul on Saturday. Perry comes into the battle with an intensive MMA and bare-knuckle boxing background, however he is boxed professionally simply as soon as in 2015.
Paul was initially set to battle Mike Tyson in a boxing bout, however the legendary boxer needed to postpone the battle resulting from a medical situation. As a substitute, he’ll tackle Perry, who stepped up as a fill-in for Tyson.
