Marlon Chito Vera was recently speaking in Believe You Methe podcast by Michael Bisping, former UFC staffer and now sports analyst and commentator. Naturally since he settled in Costa Mesa (California), the Ecuadorian in dialogue with US programs is more free than when he accepts an interview from a journalist from his country. Vera relaxes and drops explosive comments. He uses various epithets to express his ideas and to respond to his detractors or contenders. The occasion that he participated in Believe You Me was no exception. The UFC bantamweight this time said he did not fully trust the anti-doping testing system of Usada (United States anti-doping agency). In summary of accounts, Chito believes that UFC fighters are cheating. And that losing a lot of weight is too. Anthony Smith, from the light heavyweight division, also a guest that day at the podcast de Bisping does not trust the system either.
The comments of Chito Vera alluded to Aljamain Sterling. The reigning champion of the UFC 135-pound division responded concretely to the South American’s accusation that he does not have a strong chin due to the weight he is dropping.
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“It’s crazy, the moment you drop out you’re out of the show. I’m like… at least try the guy for a year. Who knows? I really believe that even if Usada does random testing, she can only do it from six in the morning to six in the evening. If you have money and a decent doctor (you can definitely cheat). I think people still cheat to this daysaid the manabita.
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His colleague Smith added: “I heard (that) there are drugs (that) you can take, and literally overnight they disappear (from your system).. And how can you go on vacation (you can do many things to cheat). As used it is effective, but Is Usada testing people in a fucking third world country? Or (they are testing people) at the bottom of bloody Russia, I don’t know. I live in fucking California, they come to my house all the time. I’d rather die than cheat, so. That’s just me, right?”
Given the words of the Chone native, with whom Chito expects to face in this 2023, Sterling came out to answer specifically to the sayings that he doesn’t have a strong chin due to the weight he loses.
“I literally went head-on with a knee into Marlon Moraes and he knocked me out. ChitoDom (Dominick Cruz), Frankie (Edgar), (Adrián) Yañez, Merab (Dvalishvili), Umar (Nurmagomedov), (Cody) Garbrandt, the entire bantamweight division can do the exact same thing and get knocked out in the exact same spot by the force of a kick like that, and I guarantee you, they’ll put you to sleep. What are we talking about? How are you even comparing that to the reason I was knocked out?” the bantamweight champion snapped.
“That was a very particular event, a sequence of events, that led to the K.O.. So we have to stop right there, it’s not the same argument. It’s not like we’re in a trade and I get hit and I go down. You can see that in the (Petr) Yan fight, you can see that in the Muñoz fight.
“Wow, it’s crazy how you can be this guy and then try to be another guy. So I’m like what is it? Is Chito the tough, tough gangster who almost tries to dress like a west coast gangster or the nice guy who’s super polite? Yes, we are in the same weight class, but I say ‘which one are you’. You are trying to be two different people,” he questioned.
“I don’t know which side of the fence you’re on here, buddy. You have to choose one. We don’t have to be best friends, you don’t have to be a jerk. And we can be the best of friends, or you can be a jerk. Which one do you want? I don’t get it, you’re confusing me,” Sterling concluded on his FunkMasterMMA channel.
Chito Vera returns to the UFC Octagon on February 18 to star alongside Cory Sandhagen in the UFC Vegas 69 card at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. duel to five rounds. A win over Sandhagen sees the Ecuadorian on the cusp of a chance to become a 135-pound title challenger.
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