A Rebel ready to rumble as Perez back in the garden

Who knows what’s going through Mike Perez’s head this week?

He’s back fighting at Madison Square Garden on Saturday night, almost nine months after being a part of the biggest boxing story in New York City and the wider fight world.

That fateful November win over Magomed “Mago” Abdusalamov, which left the big Russian brawler in a medically-induced coma, is almost as hot a topic as it was last winter, when the captivating fight became so much more.