We Got Next | Robert Whittaker, Adam Borics, Mads Burnell, Tim Elliott & Johnny Eblen

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🗓️ 10 March 2022

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Robert Whittaker hopes to have a quick turnaround to take a step closer to a third fight with Israel Adesanya. The former middleweight champion (4:40) kicks off this week's edition of We Got Next to reflect on his unanimous decision loss to Adesanya in the main event of UFC 271 this past month, discusses his takeaways, the aftermath feeling much different the second time around, how he would feel if he didn't get a third crack at Adesanya, hoping for a summer return, why Marvin Vettori makes the most sense for this next fight, and more. Mads Burnell (21:47) previews his Bellator 276 featherweight headliner with Adam Borics, talks signing a new multi-fight extension with the promotion, getting his first main event bout with Bellator, Borics as an opponent, the importance of defense in his fights, potentially fighting for the belt next, and why he feels A.J. McKee will have a repeat performance against Patricio Pitbull next month. Borics (34:51) also joins the program to give his thoughts on the matchup, the disappointment of only being able to compete once in 2021, his thoughts on how McKee vs. Pitbull 2 will go, and feeling like he and former opponent Aaron Pico have a lot in common despite Pico calling him out for a rematch on numerous occasions. Tim Elliott (48:27) recaps his upset win over Tagir Ulanbekov at UFC 272 this past Saturday, discusses not feeling like he was himself in a great first round before head coach James Krause gave him that confidence in the corner, feeling like he had Ulanbekov well scouted, why he chose to admit he grabbed his opponent's glove in the fight and doubling down on it, if he heard Khabib Nurmagomedov's reaction, when he'd like to return, and thoughts on a potential matchup with Cody Garbrandt. Finally, Johnny Eblen (1:06:31) talks his biggest fight to date this Saturday at Bellator 276 against John Salter, why he has an issue with his opponent, the vibe at American Top Team after Colby Covington defeated Jorge Masvidal, signing a new contract with Bellator, Gegard Mousasi's two most recent title defenses, his thoughts on the Marshall Rogan inu coin, and why he turned the company down for a sponsorship. Follow Mike Heck: @MikeHeck_JR Subscribe: http://goo.gl/dYpsgH Check out our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/u8VvLi Visit our playlists: http://goo.gl/eFhsvM Like MMAF on Facebook: http://goo.gl/uhdg7Z Follow on Twitter: http://goo.gl/nOATUI Read More: http://www.mmafighting.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Well hello there everybody and welcome to a brand new edition of We Got Next Here on
0:24.6	M.A. Fighting I.M. I.K. Excited to be back with another episode of the program, another busy week.
0:29.5	In the world of mixed martial arts, Eagle FC has a card on Friday. You have seen Belator both back on
0:36.8	Saturday. Belator, if we're being honest with ourselves, probably has the best fight of the
0:42.7	weekend in terms of matchmaking. With their main event between Adam Borch and Mads Bernal,
0:47.7	UFC is countering with Tiago Santos versus Mago Man and Kalaev. Eagle FC has Kevin Lee versus
0:54.2	Diego Sanchez. That's probably the most star power built fight, but that fight gives me a hell of a
1:01.9	lot of concern if we're being honest. And I think a lot of you share that sentiment. Hopefully I'm
1:06.1	proven wrong, but I've talked about this at Nazim and this point, but these types of matchups
1:11.1	lead me to a lot of the questions I have about Eagle FC, about this promotion. There's just
1:18.7	I don't like the fight. I don't like the fight. There's a whole bunch of other questions I have
1:24.9	as well in terms of how this promotion is being funded, the payouts for these fighters,
1:30.4	more specifically towards the fighters representing one management group in particular.
1:37.2	Listen, I hope they have all the success in the world, but hopefully everything is on the
1:43.2	up and up. These are valid questions that we're just not getting answers to and probably won't get
1:47.8	answers to anytime soon. But anyways, I'm getting off topic with the ranting. Again, we'll see what happens,
1:53.5	but Kevin Lee, I'm looking at it right now and it's not on all the the sights yet, but minus 800
2:00.0	favorite and that line might be a little light if we're being honest. You might be looking at a
2:05.5	minus 1100 type of scenario, excuse me, but I don't know. I can talk about this for another
2:12.8	hour, but let's talk about this show this week because I told you last week that this would be
2:18.5	a loaded show and it's actually more loaded than I thought. It was going to be five guests,
2:23.2	a lot to discuss. So let's get into it. We're going to wrap things up with
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