Tag: Marlon Vera

Sean O’Malley Unimpressed By Marlon Vera At UFC Vegas 29

Sean O'MalleySean O’Malley thinks Marlon Vera looked “so slow” during his Fight of the Night win over Davey Grant at UFC Vegas 29 this past weekend. ‘Suga’ squared off against Vera at UFC 252 in August 2020. The fight started off with both trying to get each others timing down early on. Vera then started beating […]

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Sean O’Malley thinks Marlon Vera looked “so slow” during his Fight of the Night win over Davey Grant at UFC Vegas 29 this past weekend.

‘Suga’ squared off against Vera at UFC 252 in August 2020. The fight started off with both trying to get each others timing down early on. Vera then started beating up O’Malley’s lead leg pretty bad with calf kicks. Eventually, in the first round, O’Malley suffered an ankle injury that rendered him one footed. He would fall to the mat on his back and get finished by Vera with strikes from the top.

After this fight, O’Malley and many of his fans were calling for an immediate rematch because of the injury. Meanwhile, Vera and many of his supporters said the Ecuadorian fighter should move on and move up the rankings to find a new opponent. Both would eventually move on and find different opponents for their next fights. Vera would go on to drop a decision loss to Jose Aldo in December of 2020. O’Malley did not come back until UFC 260, where he knocked out Thomas Almeida.

Vera has since bounced back from his defeat to the former featherweight fashion, avenging his 2015 defeat to Englishman Davey Grant. However, his old rival was not particualry impressed with Vera’s performance at UFC Vegas 29.

“What I took from that fight is f**k, Davey Grant’s a tough motherf***r, dude,” O’Malley said on a video posted on his YouTube channel. “That is Chito’s style, just gets beat up for a little bit, and then people get tired of beating him up, and then he comes on in the later rounds. But, yeah, I took an edible so I was really high but I was trying to fast forward like is this in slow motion? He looked so slow. Who does he have next? He called out Dominick, will he get that, no. Dom already said he’s trying to fight up.” (Transcribed by BJPENN.com)

Do you agree with Sean O’Malley? Did Marlon Vera look slow at UFC Vegas 29?

Marlon Vera Calls Out Dominick Cruz After UFC Vegas 29 Win, Finds Him Pantless Backstage

Cruz VeraMarlon Vera had a very interesting encounter with Dominick Cruz. Vera returned to the win column with an impressive unanimous decision win over Davey Grant on the main card of UFC Vegas 29 last night. In his post-fight interview, he called for a fight with Cruz who was commentating cageside. “Dom, let’s go!” Vera said […]

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Marlon Vera had a very interesting encounter with Dominick Cruz.

Vera returned to the win column with an impressive unanimous decision win over Davey Grant on the main card of UFC Vegas 29 last night. In his post-fight interview, he called for a fight with Cruz who was commentating cageside.

“Dom, let’s go!” Vera said with Cruz responding soon after.

“There’s a long list of people calling me out,” Cruz said. “We’re all trying to fight up the rankings, up the ladder. I got to respect someone trying to fight up the ladder. He wants to fight me, I want to fight up the ladder too.”

All in all, it seemed like Cruz wasn’t too interested in facing someone below him. That said, that wasn’t the last he’d see of Vera that night.

Thanks to Michael Bisping, we got to see Vera interact with Cruz backstage…with the latter being pantless.

“I really don’t like you but I don’t have my pants on so I know how weird that is,” Cruz said to Vera while Bisping proceeded to clown him afterwards.

As far as fighting is concerned, Cruz last competed in March when he returned to the win column with a unanimous decision victory over Casey Kenney. He is currently ranked No. 9 while Vera is No. 15.

UFC Vegas 29 Bonuses: Matt Brown And Seung Woo Choi Get $50K

Matt BrownUFC Vegas 29 gave fans some spectacular fights after last week’s monster pay-per-view. With the several finishes and a five-round war to end the event, fight fans surely turned off their televisions satisfied. After a great night of action in the Apex Center, four fighters walked away with $50,000 bonuses – see who below. Matt […]

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UFC Vegas 29 gave fans some spectacular fights after last week’s monster pay-per-view. With the several finishes and a five-round war to end the event, fight fans surely turned off their televisions satisfied. After a great night of action in the Apex Center, four fighters walked away with $50,000 bonuses – see who below.

Matt Brown – Performance of the Night

Matt Brown tied three other fighters, including Anderson Silva, for most KO/TKO wins in UFC history with a second-round finish of Dhiego Lima. With a straight right that landed squarely on Lima’s face, the performance was Brown’s eleventh KO/TKO finish in 42 professional fights. Brown, 40, came into the event on a two-fight skid, so he desperately sought a win. Not only did he get it, but it earned him his seventh UFC bonus in the process. Brown could have easily earned KOTN as well, but he did not since that bonus went to Choi.

Marlon Vera and Davey Grant – Fight of the Night

Marlon Vera and Davey Grant put on a total war for three rounds on the UFC Vegas 29 main card. In a highly contested fight, Vera and Grant exchanged vicious leg kicks in the first round. Going into the second, both men continued to mix it up in a battle that went back and forth. As the fight had the highest strike count of the night, there was something for everyone; takedowns, submission attempts, and straight-up violence.

Seung Woo Choi- Knockout of the Night

Seung Woo Choi extended his win streak to three fights, with two wins in 2021. With a little over a minute and a half left in the round first-round, Choi secured the finish against Julian Erosa with vicious ground and pound and the UFC Vegas 29 bonus. The win earned the young fighter his first performance bonus.

Do you think the right people got bonus money at UFC Vegas 29?

Marlon Vera Bloodies Davey Grant In FOTN Rematch Decision Win – UFC Vegas 29 Highlights

VeraAn entertaining as their first fight, Marlon Vera managed to score an impressive, well-rounded unanimous decision win over two-time opponent, Davey Grant over the course of three hard-fought rounds, blooding the surging contender on route to an avenging victory. Utilising his dynamic striking over the course of the three round affair, Vera managed to slice […]

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An entertaining as their first fight, Marlon Vera managed to score an impressive, well-rounded unanimous decision win over two-time opponent, Davey Grant over the course of three hard-fought rounds, blooding the surging contender on route to an avenging victory.

Utilising his dynamic striking over the course of the three round affair, Vera managed to slice Grant with multiple elbow strikes in the early goings of the second round, opening a sizeable cut on the hairline of Grant, before tying up in multiple scrambles on the ground.

Taking a dominant third round, the Ecuadorian, under the tutelage of the renowned, Jason Parillo, took Grant’s back with a minute remaining in the final frame, and attempted to setup a rear-naked choke as Grant defended stoutly. Forced to the judges again in their re-run, Vera took bragging rights this time around via a 29-28, 29-27, and 30-26 unanimous decision.

Below, catch the highlights from Vera’s Fight of the Night back-and-forth with Grant.

Marlon Vera: Sean O’Malley Turned Down The Rematch

Marlon VeraUFC bantamweight Marlon Vera has recently come out and said that he accepted a rematch against rival Sean O’Malley but O’Malley turned it down. These two met last summer at UFC 252. O’Malley was undefeated at the time and was coming off of a vicious walk-off knockout of Eddie Wineland. Vera had just dropped a […]

Marlon Vera

UFC bantamweight Marlon Vera has recently come out and said that he accepted a rematch against rival Sean O’Malley but O’Malley turned it down.

These two met last summer at UFC 252. O’Malley was undefeated at the time and was coming off of a vicious walk-off knockout of Eddie Wineland. Vera had just dropped a controversial unanimous decision loss against Song Yadong but had won five straight before that.

The fight started off with both trying to get each others timing down early on. Vera then started beating up O’Malley’s lead leg pretty bad with calf kicks. Eventually in the first round, O’Malley suffered an ankle injury that rendered him one footed. He would fall to the mat on his back and get finished by Vera with strikes from the top.

After this fight, O’Malley and many of his fans were calling for an immediate rematch because of the injury. Meanwhile, Vera and many of his supporters said the Ecuadorian fighter should move on and move up the rankings to find a new opponent. Both would eventually move on and find different opponents for their next fights. Vera would go on to drop a decision loss to Jose Aldo in December of 2020. O’Malley would not come back until recently at UFC 260, where he knocked out Thomas Almeida.

All of this brings us to where we are today, with the possibility of a rematch rearing its head again. According to Vera, the UFC has already offered him the rematch, which he claims he accepted. Vera also claims O’Malley and his camp have been silent about the bout agreement. He would explain this in a quote tweet about the possible rematch.

With O’Malley coming off of a win and having huge star potential, I see the UFC giving him a bigger name for his next fight. He has recently called out Dominick Cruz and made a whole video about it.

A rematch right now would make sense for Vera, seeing that he is coming off a loss and would love to get another win over a high profile guy that he has already beaten.

Both guys are still young and have many of their prime years of fighting still ahead of them. I think that you have to let both guys build their resumes up again and have them possibly rematch a couple of years down the line.

Would you want to see a rematch between Marlon Vera and Sean O’Malley?

Marlon Vera Claims Sean O’Malley Has Rejected Rematch Offer

According to Marlon Vera, Sean O’Malley has turned down a rematch between the two bantamweights. At UFC 252, Marlon “Chito” Vera defeated Sean O’Malley via TKO in the very first round. On paper, it doesn’t get much more decisive and absolute than that,…

According to Marlon Vera, Sean O’Malley has turned down a rematch between the two bantamweights. At UFC 252, Marlon “Chito” Vera defeated Sean O’Malley via TKO in the very first round. On paper, it doesn’t get much more decisive and absolute than that, right? The only problem is that O’Malley along with some others are […]