When you’re new in town, it’s nice to have a friend to show you around. When your friend is Jon Jones, be ready to party.

UFC welterweight Mike Perry said the former light heavyweight champion wrecked him when they hung out one month ago in Albuquerque, N.M.

Perry, who’d relocated from Florida to train at Jones’ longtime gym, said “Bones” had surprising stamina at the bar, and he struggled to keep up.

The two went to a local bowling alley, he said, and had “like 100 shots of tequila.” They even memorialized the meeting on Instagram.

“He kept buying drinks, man,” Perry (11-3 MMA, 4-3 UFC) told the “JW Raw” podcast. “I feel like he was buying shots and would look at me, and I would take the shot, and then he’d be like (throwing back the drink).”

After going shot-for-shot, though, Jones apparently decided a change of strategy was warranted. The next night they went out, Perry said a gravely-voiced Jones told him, “We ain’t gotta go as hard as we did last night.”

“I was like, ‘OK,'” Perry said. “He bought me a shot of something, and I was like, ‘Alright, I’ll take this one. Don’t buy me another one.’

“He was buying drinks for all these people. It was like a big old shot. And I looked at him, and he’s holding his drink, and he’s putting it up to his mouth, and he tilts the cup a little bit. I see him do that, and I’m like, alright, he’s taking it.

“So I took it, and then he goes, ‘Ah, man, I’m not even gonna.’ And I was like, ‘Aw, dang, bro! You’re getting me messed up out here!'”

It was all good for Perry, who said he’s found his groove at the Jackson Wink MMA Academy. Good thing, because he’s got a potential barnburner in the works with Yancy Medeiros (15-5 MMA, 6-5 UFC) at UFC 226, which takes place at July 7 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. The bout serves on the FS1-televised prelims before the pay-per-view main card.

Jones (21-1 MMA, 16-1 UFC), meanwhile, is still waiting his turn to get in the octagon. The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, the UFC’s anti-doping partner, is weighing his fate after a second anti-doping violation stemming from his now-overturned UFC 214 win over champ Daniel Cormier (20-1 MMA, 9-1 UFC). Clearly, Jones is getting a little impatient.

But one thing he isn’t doing – letting his current situation keep him from a little fun. Or, entirely too much fun. We just hope he’s doing it responsibly.

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