Leonardo Perdomo continued his extraordinary rise through the Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship’s heavyweight division with an 11th successive knockout win, this one over Orlando Coulter in the co-main event of the BKFC 87 show March 20 in Miami, Florida.
He even faced-off with the BKFC 87 champion Andrei Arlovski, a former UFC stud, in the middle of the ring, to suggest a title shot could be next from the Cuban sensation continually referred to as The Mike Tyson of bare-knuckle.
Perdomo’s journey just to get to the United States was the stuff of movies, as Boxing Social editor Alan Dawson explained via Yahoo Sports recently, telling the 34-year-old’s migration from Cuba to the US via Nicaragua, through to Mexico on ‘The Train of Death’, trying to evade the cartel-patrolled carriages, to fight for his dream.
It all came together Friday when Perdomo did once again what he does best — beating opponents in brutal fashion, tormenting Coulter to the body, and the head, forcing him to wilt and bleed onto the canvas for another thumping first-round finish.
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Perdomo made it clear its now title-hunting season.
“Arlovski, where are you? Come at me, boy! Don’t be scared,” said Perdomo after preserving his unbeaten record. “Come on, papi. [The belt] is mine. It’s mine, and everybody knows it!”
“In Russian, Perdomo means a f****** fart from the ass,” Arlovski said, seemingly unimpressed despite Perdomo’s record, and after facing-off with him in the middle of the ring.
Perdomo fired back with “relax, grandpa,” pointing to the 13 years difference between them.
At 47, Arlovski brings with him to any fight a wealth of experience that his challenger does not yet have, having fought Fedor Emilianenko 17 years ago, and with UFC wins over Antonio Silva, Frank Mir, and Ben Rothwell. He finished his MMA career with 60 fights before transitioning to bare-knuckle to toe-the-line in the sport’s premier fight firm BKFC — where he’s 2-0 (2 KOs).
“When I was beating people he was probably still playing with his f*****g d**k and looking at Playboy magazine,” Arlovski finished.
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