Perez’s home video rolls, beginning with him saying goodbye to his family in Richmond, CA. The 27-year-old lives at home with his parents and one of his brothers, having moved to the United States when he was two and settled in the Bay Area a few years later.
He heads into American Kickboxing Academy to train, going through mitt work with different coaches, and then his fight highlights run. Perez is 4-1, cites fighters like Julio Cesar Chavez and Cain Velasquez as Mexican inspirations, and thanks his girlfriend for the support she offers him.
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Nunes and the coaches put her team through a hard workout inside the UFC APEX, with everyone working through the circuit.
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Cole works on the mat with Bartling, and in one of their scrambles, Cole feels something funky in his elbow and presses pause on his training session. He’s forced to sit out the rest of practice with ice on his elbow but promises in a confessional interview that regardless of what steps they have to take, he’s going to remain in the competition and fighting when the time comes.
Back at the house…
Walker talks to Maximus about what drew him back to fighting, and he begins to explain as the “Way Back Machine” runs highlights from his time on Season 2 of The Ultimate Fighter, where he was on Team Hughes, losing to Brad Imes in a fight where he blew out his shoulder.
“My UFC career wasn’t what I wanted it to be,” says the Canadian veteran, who currently resides in Salt Lake City. “I won a fight, won Submission of the Night, lost a couple of fights, got my contract cut.”
He explains that he walked away to devote his time to his son, who was born in 2009, as home video footage rolls of MacDonald at home with his youngest son, two-year-old Hunter. He has three boys now, and explains that when he retired, he wanted to put his effort into being a dad, not working his way back to the UFC.
