Overview

• Perry is scheduled to defend his King of Violence title against Jeremy Stephens on Oct. 4 at Newark's Prudential Center.
• He told MMA Fighting that a McGregor bare-knuckle bout "could be very real," with his performance and timing viewed as key.
• BKFC promoter David Feldman said McGregor skipped the BKFC 82 press event because he was preparing himself to face the winner.
• McGregor is a BKFC co-owner who has not competed since breaking his leg in a 2021 TKO loss to Dustin Poirier.
• Perry says major paydays in bare-knuckle and eased tensions with BKFC make a crossover meeting plausible.