Gastelum Explains How Trying To Be Friends With Mike Perry Was A Big Mistake

Last month top UFC middleweight fighter Kelvin Gastelum made a social media blunder by trying to befriend “Platinum” Mike Perry on facebook.

But, instead of finding a new friend among his work peers, Gastelum got put on blast of his efforts.

Mike Perry would screen cap the request and post it on his own social media, publicly denying Kelvin of any friendship.

Now, Gastelum is explaining what happened in more detail.

Check it out:

“What happened was, I woke up one day, and I went to check my Facebook. Then he, randomly, I got a Mike Perry comment. I’m like ‘alright, I’m gonna check it,’ and it said ‘Jacare is going to strangle you.’ I’m like, alright, I didn’t reply, I didn’t ‘like’ it or anything. What I did was, I tried to mess with him just to see what he would do, and I sent him a friend request.”

“I kind of feel like it backfired. Because he blew it up on Twitter, he kind of made me look like a fool or at least I felt like it. But yeah, I’m not worried about him. I was just kind of messing around just to see what would happen.”

“I’ve learned that people will say anything online. Anything to get your attention, to get you to respond to them. And many of those people are the saddest people on earth. I don’t pay any attention to it. Only sometimes when I want to have some fun. … I used to read the comments and think ‘oh my god, what are people thinking about me, what are they saying about me?’ But now it’s just like, I realize some of those people are the most saddest people on earth.”

And as a bonus, here’s Perry putting the top UFC middleweight on social media blast: