As was first reported by MMAJunkie’s Mike Bohn, Joseph Benavidez will get his second crack at Deiveson Figueiredo and his fourth shot at the flyweight title. 

The fight was made after Benavidez claimed that a headbutt was the decisive blow prompting him to ask for a rematch. 

And while there is clear evidence of contact between the two fighters’ heads, one flyweight in particular feels no sympathy for the Alpha Male product. Former opponent Alex Perez (who faces off with Jussier Formiga this weekend at UFC 250), had some choice words about the way Benavidez has handled the ordeal as well as their previous run in. 

“Joe is over here bitching about the headbutt, but he headbutted me,” Perez shared about their previous encounter. He added that Benavidez even admitted as much. “He told me in the back like ‘hey, yeah it was my headbutt that dropped you.”

However, unlike the tact of Benavidez, Perez said that you just need to move on from things like that, which is something he feels Benavidez has not done. 

“It is what it is - I’m not going to be a bitch and crybaby like him,” he said. “[He] keeps crying about a rematch and stuff - I don’t see him winning that fight anyway, so the same result is going to happen.”

And while he expects Benavidez, who he said was losing the fight anyways, to lose yet again, he points out that this wasn’t even the case in their matchup. In fact, he feels like he was right in the thick of things with the title contender. 

 “I felt like I was doing great in that fight, I just got caught with something,” he said. “If everybody looks at the film, he just runs into me with his head and then all the other stuff happened after.”

Of course, don’t take all of this as meaning that Perez is rooting against Benavidez when the rematch happens in July. Although he hasn’t loved Benvidez’s way of handling himself, he has a particular interest in seeing Benavidez walk away the champ. 

“Hopefully he does win, so when I fight him for the title, I can take the title and get revenge,” Perez said. 

Perez will look to take that next step towards title contention this weekend at UFC 250.