ORLANDO – UFC welterweight Max Griffin believes in scientific measures of his greatness as a fighter.

Griffin (13-4 MMA, 1-2 UFC) said he once wowed the folks at the UFC Performance Institute with his ability to rebound from hard training. After six hours in the gym, he said, he registered levels of recovery that technicians hadn’t seen from other UFC fighters.

“My body’s a real machine,” he told reporters in advance of his FOX-televised meeting against Mike Perry (11-2 MMA, 4-2 UFC) on Saturday at UFC on FOX 28.

There are other less scientific measures that tell Griffin he’s on par with Perry, who’s known for his knockout power. At the 2017 UFC Athlete Retreat, the two traded turns on a machine that measures punching power. Griffin said they had about the same power.

“I know what I can do,” Griffin said. “(Perry) does, too. He can play his tough role, but he knows what’s going to happen.”

Griffin is the biggest underdog on the card, which he estimates will make the shock bigger when he takes home a win at Amway Center in Orlando, Fla. Accepting a bout with Perry, Griffin said he didn’t blink at his opponent’s tough-guy persona.

“He’s fake, man,” Griffin said. “I’m going to beat him up. He has confidence issues. He tries to act all tough – he’s not even from Orlando … He’s from Michigan or something. He’s a clown to me.”

Griffin recently quit his day job as a property manager for Blue Shield of California to train full time. Without the barrier of all that cubicle time, he said he’s grown leaps and bounds from where he was.

At 1-2 in the octagon, Griffin needs a turnaround fast. Perry also is looking to prove he’s more than what he’s recently shown after a high-profile setback against Santiago Ponzinibbio in December.

“He respects the power,” Griffin said of Perry. “He can act like I’m nothing. But he’s going to look pretty stupid losing to a guy that’s nothing.”

If nothing else, Griffin can reference the results of a very unscientific measure of dominance to prove his point.

“He doesn’t intimidate me (one bit),” Griffin said. “I know the guy. I whooped him in cornhole.”

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