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How Kelvin Gastelum’s friend request to Mike Perry ‘backfired’, and a message to internet trolls

Just last month, rising UFC middleweight contender, Kelvin Gastelum, woke up to find a derogatory comment from ‘Platinum’ Mike Perry on his Facebook page.

Perry posted that Ronaldo ‘Jacare’ Souza was going to ‘strangle’ Gastelum unconscious in their upcoming middleweight bout at UFC 224 next weekend, so he decided to get creative and send the welterweight slugger a friend request on Facebook.

“What happened was, I woke up one day, and I went to check my Facebook,” Gastelum told reporters Wednesday, per MMA Fighting’s Dave Doyle. “Then he, randomly, I got a Mike Perry comment.