It will not be the first time that Vera is measured with a more experienced rival and ‘top’ 10 of the company.
As “a tough challenge” and “one of the most important challenges of his career”, UFC Spanish proposes that it will be the fight that on Saturday, November 6, he will face in the event UFC 268 Marlon Chito Vera in front of Frankie Edgar.
Vera (19-7-1 MMA, 11-6 UFC) and Edgar (24-9-1 MMA, 18-9-1 UFC) will meet at MSG Madison Square Garden in New York in the main event of the Undercard that will be headlined by Kamaru Usman’s duel with Colby Covington in which Usman will expose the UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship) welterweight belt for the second time. In co-star Rose Namajunas she will have a second fight against China’s Weili Zhang at strawweight.
Less than a week before what will be the eighteenth face-to-face of Chito In the UFC cage, the UFC Spanish page says that the Ecuadorian fighter will have one of the most important challenges of his career, as he will face the 40-year-old former lightweight champion.
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It will not be the first time that the manabita is measured with a more experienced rival and top 10 of the company, since in 2020 he competed with the Brazilian José Aldo, former featherweight champion, and in 2017 he collided with the also Brazilian John Lineker who at that time was fifth of the ranking. In both combats the tricolor was defeated.
“A victory can catapult Vera to a good place at 135 pounds, the third division of the UFC in which Edgar participates, who will just be contesting his third fight, in which he has distributed results, defeated Pedro Munhoz and fell to Cory Sandhagen ”, Gives account and reason UFC Spanish.
“One of the greatest moments in which it was considered underdog a Chito It was prior to his duel against Sean O’Malley, regardless of the circumstances, the Ecuadorian was successful and that gave him the opportunity to fight José Aldo in the highest profile duel he has ever had, in which he lost by decision ” . complements the official page of the company.
Other duels he faced Chito Against more experienced fighters were March 2017, in which he ended with a spectacular kick to the head to Brad Pickett, who added 39 brawls compared to 14 for the South American; or in which he submitted with a armbar in the first round to Brian Kelleher, who already had 24 contests to 15 for Vera.
“If something has highlighted Chito It is that he does not care if he has to be in hostile territory, since in his UFC 180 debut he traveled to Mexico to face Marco Beltrán; and although he lost in a close contest that could have turned towards him, he did not shrink in the slightest, “says UFC Español.
In the contest on Saturday, November 6, Frankie Edgar will be the host in a neighboring city, because he is from New Jersey.
Edgar is currently ranked eighth in the ranking of bantamweight (135 pounds), but in his last six fights he has obtained only two victories, against Pedro Munhoz and Cub Swanson, in August 2020 and April 2018.
For her part, Vera is located in the thirteenth position of the ranking of the fifteen best and won a victory against the Englishman Davey Grant in his last presentation in the UFC cage, on June 19 at the UFC Vegas 29 evening. (D)
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