Watch: ‘F*ck, that really hurt’ — Marlon Vera talks THAT Sean O’Malley knee strike
Marlon ‘Chito’ Vera’s first UFC title shot didn’t reasonably crawl as he planned.
In March, Vera turned into once outpointed throughout 5 rounds by reigning UFC bantamweight champion Sean O’Malley in a bout which seen ‘Suga’ dip into his box of tricks to whisper their have praises some of his most flashy striking suggestions — including one step-in knee that linked flush on Vera’s head.
And talking to the media in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday ahead of his 135-pound showdown with light flyweight king Deiveson Figueirdo, Vera said that the knee did certainly hurt — but it turned into once a fifth-round punch from O’Malley that in actual fact did the most injure.
“To assemble a comparison, the punch within the fifth round that landed perfectly on my seek,” Chito outlined, “hurt me one million instances more [than the knee]. I turned into once fully blind, I turned into once like, ‘F*ck!’ Most attention-grabbing punch.
“The knee roughly bowled over me. I turned into once like, ‘F**k I received clipped.’ Nonetheless my legs were there, I turned into once appropriate like, ‘F**k that in actual fact hurt.’ In the case of worthwhile. Nonetheless my brain and my legs were there.”
This time round in opposition to Figueirdo, Vera says that he received’t be enormously surprised if his opponent seeks to raise the fight to the bottom to attach a ways from — in notion a minimum of — the build whereby ‘Chito’ does his ideal work.
“He’s going to f*cking appropriate shoot and scent my crotch within the first 2d of the fight,” Vera said of Saturday’s contest. “So, we know how this works. Combatants notify one thing and attain one thing else, but I indicate, if we needs to take hold of a anticipate at, we are capable of give it a strive.
“I by no formulation grab pride in these items because I don’t want to discuss about it and build it out within the universe. I appropriate work laborious and attain the specific I’m capable of, but yeah, he can provide it a strive.”
