Rebel Perez hoping for testing showdown with bullish Barnett

JASON BARNETT wants to knock out Mike “The Rebel” Perez in two rounds in “The Undefeateds” Yanjing Beer Fight Night at Neptune Stadium tonight while the Cork-based Cuban heavyweight hopes the Washington veteran can provide him with a few much-needed rounds on his way to greater things.

All three Cork-based Cubans, Alexei Acosta (10-0 with 10 KO’s), Luis Garcia, (6-0 with 4 KO’s) and Mike Perez (10-0 with 8 KO’s) put their unbeaten records on the line tonight along with unbeaten Irish prospects Andy Murray (19-0 with 10 KO’s), Willie “Big Bang” Casey (8-0 with 5 KO’s) and Cork’s own Gary “Spike” O’Sullivan (10-0 with 6 KO’s).

Perez made a bit of boxing history with short route victories over Tomas Mrazek and Edgars Kalnars on the undercard to the Andy Lee-Mamadou Thiam fight in Limerick last month in the back-to-back fights which took just eight and a half minutes in total.