Mike Perry: No drug test for Jake Paul fight – “I was surprised”

The Last Man to Fight Jake Paul weighs in on 'The Problem Child's' upcoming Netflix fight against Mike Tyson (Friday, November 15, 2024) and wonders if anyone will drug test for the fight.

Mike Perry was on a five-fight winning streak in bare knuckle boxing before facing Jake Paul in a traditional boxing match. “Platinum” was 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 fight.

“Well, I know he cut to 200 when he fought me, but I thought he got cut from like 212,” Perry told Sean O'Malley's trainer Tim Welch in a new YouTube video.

“You know, when I fought Jake, I was 6-0 undefeated in the last three years, and then I fought Jake. It was the first time I wasn't drug tested. They tested me in all my fights except the Jake Paul fight.”

If that sounds like an accusation, that's because it probably is. But Perry doesn't absolve himself of the loss.

“No excuses,” he added. “I fight, I train, I train [with] People who like juice. But they didn't test me for a fight of this magnitude, against a fighter as important to the system they've built as Jake Paul. So I was surprised that I didn’t get tested.”

“I heard he thinks it’s so good that you can’t test it anyway.”

Jake Paul has stated that a full drug testing panel will be conducted before his fight with Mike Tyson, but if that's the standard pre-fight urine test that most combat sports commissions do, it won't mean much. These tests are basically IQ tests. If you fail one, you're an idiot.

The current amount of high-quality PEDs only shows up in your system for a very short period of time, which is why even random drug tests from organizations like USADA and VADA have had difficulty catching too many cheaters.

Is Paul into juice? Is Tyson? When it comes to freak show fights like this, so far outside the bounds of legitimate sport, it's hard to care less. If there is one, let's hope it's both. It would be terrible if the 27-year-old was at full speed while the 58-year-old was struggling naturally.