Perry noted that the only fight he wasn’t drug tested for was his Paul fight, which surprised him given how high profile the match was.
The last man to fight Jake Paul is weighing in on “The Problem Child’s” upcoming Netflix fight against Mike Tyson (Fri. Nov. 15, 2024), and he’s wondering whether anyone is getting drug tested for the bout.
Mike Perry was on a five fight winning streak in bare knuckle boxing before facing Jake Paul in a traditional boxing match. “Platinum” got dropped three times en route to a sixth round TKO loss to the YouTuber turned boxer. Now Paul is moving up to heavyweight to fight Tyson, and is expected to weigh around 224 pounds for the bout.
“Well, I know he cut to 200 when he fought me, but I thought he was cutting from, like, 212,” Perry told Sean O’Malley’s coach Tim Welch in a new YouTube video.
“You know, when I fought Jake, I was undefeated 6-0 over the last 3 years, and then I fought Jake. It was the first time I hadn’t been drug tested. They tested me for all my fights except for the Jake Paul fight.”
If that sounds like an accusation, it’s because it probably is. But Perry isn’t absolving himself of the loss because of it.
“No excuses,” he added. “I fight, I spar, I train [with] people that are on the juice. But they didn’t test me for a fight of that magnitude, against a fighter as important as Jake Paul is to the system they’ve got set up and going. So I was surprised to not get tested.”
“I heard the s—, if he’s on some s—, it’s so good they can’t test for it anyways.”
Jake Paul has stated there’ll be a full drug testing panel done leading into his fight with Mike Tyson, but if that’s the standard pre-fight urine test done by most combat sports commissions, that won’t establish much. Those tests are basically IQ tests … if you fail one, you’re a moron.
The current crop of high grade PEDs only show up in your system for a very short window, which is why even random drug testing by organizations like USADA and VADA struggled to catch too many cheaters.
Is Paul on the juice? Is Tyson? When it comes to freakshow fights like this so far outside the boundaries of legitimate sport, it feels hard to care. Hopefully if one is, both are. It would be terrible if the 27 year old was on gear while the 58 year old was fighting all natural.