Jake Paul offers Mike Perry a job after Conor McGregor 'fires' him from BKFC over KO boxing loss

07/22/2024 08:30 AM

Jake Paul has offered Mike Perry a business partnership that includes a new job outside of fighting after their boxing fight.

The YouTuber-turned-boxer stopped Perry in six rounds on Saturday night, much to the annoyance of Conor McGregor. After watching the bout and initially supporting Perry, the Irishman claimed that he was ‘firing’ him from BKFC, where he is one of the key names.

And while it is unclear if McGregor actually has the power to terminate someone like that, it appears the fighter may have another option regardless. He and Paul have teased a future MMA fight, and they could meet again outside of the ring.

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Conor McGregor claims Mike Perry is ‘fired’ from BKFC

After watching Jake Paul knock out Mike Perry on Saturday night, McGregor immediately took to social media to make his feelings about the fight clear. After initially backing the bare knuckle boxer, he was enraged by his performance.

He immediately declared that Perry would not be welcome back into the BKFC ring, telling him in one angry post: “Hey Mike you’re released and you can go and compete in your smelly dirty boxing championship thing, the smell of it, good luck. You're fired.”

McGregor was referring to the new ‘Dirty Boxing Championship’ that Perry launched hours before his fight on Saturday. After ceremonial weigh-ins on Friday night, he held his own separate press conference where he announced a new fight league.

The Dirty Boxing Championship will feature bouts where fighters wear smaller gloves, and can fight in the clinch or even on the ground. Perry has claimed that he will be able to fight on the promotion, despite being signed to BKFC.

Mike Perry disputed Conor McGregor’s claim that he is fired from BKFC

After the tweet storm, Perry defended himself from McGregor’s jibes by saying that he also owns a part of the bare knuckle promotion, and that he isn’t in a position to be fired. He was also defended after the fact by Paul himself, who told McGregor to get back to the gym after pulling out of his UFC comeback.

Asked about McGregor’s claims at the post-fight press conference, Perry replied after the fact that McGregor should try his luck against Paul in a boxing match, and added: “Whatever. He doesn’t f***ing have a promotion because me and him are both owners of the BKFC, so you can’t fire me.”

The Irishman later disputed this, in a deleted tweet he told Perry that he in fact owned a minuscule portion of BKFC’s parent company Triller. “Michael you are not any owner in BKFC,” he wrote before quickly taking his post down.

“Not an iota. You have the tiniest minute dot of a share in thriller [Triller]. The social media video app. Which is promising in fairness. But it’s a speckle you have. You hold nothing in bare knuckle. Not an iota. And trust me, you are out bro. With no feelings.

“Do your thing in your dirty pants championships and who knows down the line. But you won’t be straight back in my ring that is out straight. I wish you well in the 6oz MMA sparring gloves and what that thing was. God bless.”

Jake Paul offers Mike Perry a job with his company

After hearing what McGregor said in the aftermath of the fight, which also included a number of foul-mouthed jibes at him, Jake Paul took aim at the former two-weight world champion. He insisted that McGregor focus on his own return, before making Perry a big offer.

“Mike Perry, as you got fired by Conor McGregor from BKFC, we will hire you at Betr into a partnership and give you some sort of role,” Paul said during a post-fight episode of his podcast BS with Jake Paul. “We’ll figure out what that’s going to be. Betr has a job for you, Mike Perry.”

Jake’s brother Logan Paul noted that perhaps it was a slightly disrespectful move to do right after stopping a proud fighter like Perry. But the YouTuber-turned-boxer insisted that he was simply offering a new revenue stream to a fighter who has given a lot to combat sport.

“We’re just giving him another stream of income,” he replied with a cheeky grin and inflection. “He can keep fighting. We can maybe start a podcast with him or something; we’ll figure it out.”

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