Mike Perry Reflects On Jacare Souza Saving His Life

Mike Perry reflects on a story where top UFC middleweight title contender Jacare Souza saved his life. The two fighters actually just fought on the same card but the outcomes of those fights were different. Perry scored a unanimous decision win over Alex Oliveira while Souza lost to Jack Hermansson by decision. These fights took […]

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Mike Perry reflects on a story where top UFC middleweight title contender Jacare Souza saved his life.

The two fighters actually just fought on the same card but the outcomes of those fights were different. Perry scored a unanimous decision win over Alex Oliveira while Souza lost to Jack Hermansson by decision. These fights took place at the UFC Fort Lauderdale event that happened on April 27, 2019, at BB&T Center.

During a video interview with Andrew Whitelaw, Perry looked back on a crazy story. It started once he found a rubber band on a pull-up bar.

This is where he thought it was a good idea to resist a choke with it but he ended up choking himself unconscious and nearly hanging himself from the band and bar. Fortunately for him, Souza was there and saved his life.

“I don’t know what I was thinking. I put my head in this thing, and I’m like, ‘Oh, I’m going to do a neck workout. I’m going to work on my ability to take a choke,’” Perry said (H/T to FanSided). “So I lean forward, and [it] wraps up my neck. And then I flex myself so that I could hold on. And in two seconds, as soon as I lean forward and it does it…next thing I know, Alan, from the UFC, and Jacare Souza [are there]. Alan’s slapping me and pouring water on me, shaking me, but they said that Jacare, who while he was filming for ESPN — he was hitting a bag — and he sees me.”

“I hit my face on the metal bar of the pull-up bar. And I’m passed out. I’m still hanging on this thing. I’m hanging myself. And Jacare’s seen it, and he jumps over there quick and he pulls me out of the thing. And then they’re waking me up, and then I come to, and I’m like, “Oh, man. It was a bad joke. I’m sorry; I didn’t mean to scare everybody.”

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