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Eric Perry demonstrates in a boxing clinic
Don’t forget about the little people. That’s what is said when someone is having success because some people might forget where they came from. For professional boxer and Toccoa native Eric Perry, he’s not forgotten about where he comes from or the little people that live there. Perry literally visits the little people. After winning his third professional fight with a first-round knockout, two days later he was with the little kids at the Toccoa-Stephens County Boys & Girls Club. Perry hosted a free boxing clinic for club members at the Boys & Girls Club home on Whitman Street.
“Why should they pay someone to teach boxing when they have me someone like me who is from here?” Perry said.
Perry said he’s accustomed to visiting Boys & Girls Club in Toccoa and wants to give back. Perry said those kids are just like him when he was their age.
“I’m from here. I am a Toccoa kid. I am a street kid from Toccoa and there are street kids in Toccoa,” Perry said.
Perry’s most recent professional boxing bout was on March 20 in Albertville, Ala. His boxing match was on a Saturday and the following Monday he was back in his hometown doing a free boxing clinic. Perry now resides in Texas with his wife and children. Perry has three professional fights under his belt and is still undefeated. All three of his pro boxing fights have all ended in a first round knockout in his favor. Even though he has made it a habit of winning by knockouts, it is something he doesn’t anticipate.
“Honestly, when I go there and fight I do not look for knockouts,” Perry said. “I never look for knockouts. I go in there and I just do what I do,” he said.
Perry said that when he’s fighting, he just goes with the flow with his tactics and so far it just so happens he gets a knockout. Perry says it is like ‘oh that just happens. In his last fight, he was just fighting, and it just happened.
“I jabbed him straight in the solar plexus,” Perry said. “I saw his eyes wince just like that. When I saw that, I was like ‘oh yeah that one hurt.’ One of my proudest moments is when I kind of got in there after I jabbed him I knew he was a little bit wary coming in because he felt the power of my jab and he has not even felt the right hand yet. He just felt the jab. So I threw a right hook lead. He stepped back from it. He tried to come in I made him miss like six punches in a row. Then I came back in with a left hook. Although he blocked the left hook it was so much power behind it, it knocked him into the ropes. So knocked him into the ropes. So I go up to him I threw a jab…right hand to the ribs left hook up top. At that point it started declining for him now he is just trying to survive."
After that, his opponent went into the ropes and fell on his knees. That was when the referee came between the two and did the count. When the ref got to 10 Perry’s winning streak continued.