UFC fighter Mike Perry on Sunday posted a disturbing video of a bloody leg laceration to his Instagram stories.

Perry posted the video with little additional information. It shows him lying on his back in a hallway. He then shows a shattered pane of glass before moving on to his bloody leg with what appears to be a deep laceration.

The series of three videos can be seen in full below.

The original two video segments posted to Perry’s stories ends with him mumbling “f–k am I supposed to do about this?” The third segment, which was posted hours later but is included in the video below, shows Perry laying on a table getting stitches.

It was a disturbing post, to say the least, and comes just a few months after a video surfaced of Perry punching a restaurant patron. He has also been accused of domestic abuse by his ex-wife.

He has stepped into the Octagon twice in 2020. He defeated Mickey Gall on June 27 at UFC on ESPN 12. Perry then faced Tim Means on Nov. 21 at UFC 255, losing via unanimous decision.

Perry doesn’t currently have another UFC bout scheduled.

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Despite Brian Ortega’s recent improvements, Alexander Volkanovski thinks his pressure will be too much.

UFC featherweight champion Volkanovski (22-1 MMA, 9-0 UFC) will meet Ortega in the first quarter of 2021, but a date is yet to be official. Dana White teased a February matchup, but Volkanovski would rather see the fight pushed back a little more so he’s able to get enough time to conduct his camp at City Kickboxing in New Zealand.

Ortega (15-1 MMA, 7-1 UFC) is coming off arguably his best performance yet in which he shut out Chan Sung Jung and outstruck him over the course of five rounds in the UFC on ESPN+ 38 headliner.

The win repositioned Ortega into title contention and caught the champion’s attention.

“It took me by surprise because I didn’t expect him to fight – I wouldn’t say fight smart, but his shot selection, there was a couple of things that I just didn’t expect,” Volkanovski told SCMP MMA. “I thought he would just be looking for the finish, that’s what he does.

“But there, he showed patience, shot selection, fakes – a lot of things that we work on. Whether he took some notes out of our book, I don’t know, but he’s obviously stepped it up and he looked good. He really did look good.”

However, despite Volkanovski being impressed with Ortega’s advancements, he remains unfazed. He sees a similar game plan that Max Holloway was able to implement when he battered Ortega in 2018 as a blueprint that will work.

“I believe I’m going to break him,” Volkanovski said. “The way that Max did, I believe that’s somewhere that I can go with – especially with my pressuring style. This is a fun fight for me because I believe I get to put the pressure on. I get to be in his face, which is fun. People want to see that.

“There’s levels to this, and I believe my pressure, when I use it, my pressure’s on a whole other level that not many people in the world have ever felt.”

Volkanovski is coming off back-to-back wins over Holloway and has said on numerous occasions that he’s excited to take on a new challenge in the featherweight division. He acknowledges Ortega is dangerous everywhere, but isn’t afraid to dabble on the ground with the jiu-jitsu ace if necessary.

“It’s exciting for me, but at the same time, I really do believe I’m just at a whole other level,” Volkanovski said. “I’m so well-rounded. I can take the fight wherever it is. I’m the guy that never quits. With me, it’s so easy to say I’m well-rounded, but it goes so much deeper than that. There are so many little things that I just have down to a tee, and I work so hard to make sure that I am such a complete fighter that if someone gives me trouble somewhere, I can always take it somewhere else.

“Even if I have to go to the ground with Ortega … I don’t need to worry about him taking me down. We’ll see. Obviously, I can’t give too much away, but if I want to take someone down, I can. Am I going to have a BJJ match with him in the middle of a UFC fight? No. But again, I’m a very smart fighter. There’s different rules to just on the BJJ mats. We can punch you on the face. We’ve got a cage. There’s a lot of obstacles in an MMA cage, especially when you can use your hands and elbows and whatnot.”

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If you’re an astute observer of the international scene, Jiri Prochazka (27-3 MMA, 1-0 UFC) is undoubtedly already on your radar following an incredible 11-1 run under the Rizin FF banner in Japan, where he racked up stoppage wins over the likes of big-show veterans C.B. Dollaway, Kazuyuki Fujita, Brandon Halsey, Jake Heun, Satoshi Ishii, Muhammed Lawal, Fabio Maldonado and even current Bellator light heavyweight champion Vadim Nemkov.

If you’re the kind of fan that only watches UFC, surely he at least got on your radar with a second-round stoppage of former title challenger Volkan Oezdemir at this past July’s UFC 251.

Either way, there’s no denying that this 28-year-old Czech fighter is a force to be reckoned with and one that is unquestionably coming into his prime.

Prochazka is currently ranked No. 13 in the latest USA TODAY Sports/MMA Junkie light heavyweight rankings, but he’ll have an early change to take a big step up when he faces No. 3 Dominick Reyes on Feb. 27. With Jan Blachowicz putting his UFC 205-pound title on the line just one week later, Prochazka could conceivably line up for the winner later in the year, so a summer title shot isn’t out of the question – though much will depend on the result of the Polish champ against “The Last Stylebender.”

And listen, long-reigning champ Jon Jones saying he’s got no desire to come back to 205 pounds just opens up the title picture even more. Truthfully, I think Prochazka has the ability to compete with any of the previously mentioned names – but it all starts with Reyes. A victory there, and the sky is the limit.

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