Former UFC welterweight Mike Perry came to close to sparking a brawl with a Russian fighter during a heated press conference.
Perry, 31, travelled to Russia to corner his friend and former UFC middleweight Alex Nicholson at a Ren TV Fight Club event this Friday in Moscow. The promotion have only held one event before, when white-supremacist and Neo-Nazi Vladimir Datsik beat MMA veteran Jeff Monson on their inaugural card in August.
Nicholson headlines Ren TV's event against Russian fighter Vagab Vagabov, who holds an MMA record of 30-1. The American was joined by his longtime training partner Perry at a press conference in a TV studio to promote the fight, but for some reason 'Platinum' squared off with middleweight fighter Magomed Ismailov despite not being contracted to fight him.