We Got Next | Taylor Starling, Erick Gonzalez & Jay Perrin

MMA Fighting

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🗓️ 14 October 2021

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

On the fourth episode of We Got Next, MMA Fighting's Mike Heck speaks with BKFC's Taylor Starling (3:08) to get her side of why her BKFC Fight Night Montana fight with Randine Eckholm was scratched hours before the event, Eckholm being "unprofessional" during the two-day stretch, what she said to Eckholm's face on Saturday when the fight was called, if there was any chance the commission would find a way to make it happen, plans to return at the promotion's New York debut in November, and the unfortunate death of Justin Thornton. UFC's newest lightweight Erick Gonzalez (24:42) joins the show as he prepares to make his short notice octagon debut against Jim Miller this Saturday at UFC Vegas 40 and discusses getting the career-altering phone call, getting a veteran in Miller for his first fight, the road he's taken to get to the UFC, and how he sees the fight playing out. New England bantamweight prospect Jay Perrin (43:59) recaps capturing the CES 135-pound title at CES 64 with a second-round submission win over Josh Smith, teammate Merab Dvalishvili defeating Smith's teammate Marlon Moraes the next night at UFC 266, talks holding titles in the top two promotions in the region, what he wants next, his longtime rivalry with Johnny Campbell and if he'll ever give him a rematch, how close he is to getting a call from the UFC, and the importance of mental health in the fight game. 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. I'm a little quiet. The family is asleep right now. A little
0:25.7	bit of a late recording right before we release this brand new episode of We Got
0:31.0	Next here on mmafighting.com. I am Mike Hack. Thank you for checking off the
0:35.8	show and we don't have a lot of time to waste my friends. We have three great
0:41.2	guests, all different stories, three different points in their careers, but
0:47.2	three people, three fighters on the cusp of some very big things. So let's just
0:53.3	get right into this thing. Let's run down the line up because you don't want to
0:56.9	hear from me. You want to hear from the fighters. That's why you listen to the
1:00.4	show and you're going to hear from them and you're going to hear at the very end of
1:05.1	the show from one of the best regional fighters in New England. One of the best
1:09.9	135 pounders in the country. His name is Jay Perrin. So he's going to wrap us up
1:15.6	this week. He is the current Bannemoi champion for Cage Titans in New England.
1:21.7	And recently he became the CES Bannemoi champion. He had a second round submission
1:27.1	win at CES 64 against Josh Smith this past month. And you might remember him
1:33.4	from his fight on the contender series a couple of years ago. He lost his
1:36.8	decision in a fight that pretty much everybody watched it thought he won. But he
1:42.0	did not get a contract either way, but he's looking for a chance to kick that
1:45.8	door down. So to speak. And he's very, very close to getting that chance. We'll
1:49.8	speak to the Joker, Jay Perrin coming up a little bit later on. And in around
1:54.3	25 minutes, we're going to speak to Eric Gonzalez, who will make his UFC debut
1:59.2	this Saturday on a little over a week's notice. And he's going to fight Jim Miller.
2:04.0	How about that for a UFC debut, taking on a man who by the time he makes the walk
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