{"id":390548,"date":"2022-06-02T19:42:56","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T19:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=390548"},"modified":"2022-06-02T19:42:56","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T19:42:56","slug":"everything-is-to-benefit-sugar-marlon-chito-vera-believes-sean-omalley-had-favorable-match-making-in-his-ufc-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/everything-is-to-benefit-sugar-marlon-chito-vera-believes-sean-omalley-had-favorable-match-making-in-his-ufc-run\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Everything Is to Benefit \u2018Sugar\u2019&#8221;- Marlon &#8216;Chito&#8217; Vera Believes Sean O&#8217;Malley Had Favorable Match-Making in His UFC Run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC bantamweight Marlon Vera didn\u2019t hold back when talking about rival Sean O\u2019Malley in an interview with Brendan Schaub. \u2018Chito\u2019 Vera is the only man to defeat O\u2019Malley in the cage and his recent performances have earmarked him as one of the best fighters in the 135-pound division.<\/p>\n<p>As Marlon Vera continues his ascent towards an undisputed title shot, he believes Sean O\u2019Malley has had an easier run in his UFC career thus far. Vera is fresh off a dominant win over Rob Font and is convinced that his path to the top has been supremely more challenging than that of Sean O\u2019Malley.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/lacageMMA_\/status\/1532440526531837965?s=20&#038;t=t4omxCxfkDEmoghPfNs_OQ<\/p>\n<p>Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/he-wasnt-stumbling-around-dustin-poirier-believes-charles-oliveira-didnt-push-himself-to-make-weight-at-ufc-274-wants-digital-scales\/\">\u2018He Wasn\u2019t Stumbling Around\u2019- Dustin Poirier Believes Charles Oliveira Didn\u2019t Push Himself to Make Weight at UFC 274; Wants Digital Scales<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThey couldn\u2019t find him a better fight in the top 10. They find the smaller guy with the shorter reach. Everything is to benefit \u2018Sugar\u2019 because even if he lost, he\u2019s gonna make an excuse. \u2018Oh, I fought a tough guy,\u2019 which who f*cking cares? I\u2019ve beat him. When people come to me about it, I\u2019m like, \u2018I don\u2019t need that.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-389769 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/05\/vera.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"824\" height=\"670\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/05\/vera.jpg 824w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/05\/vera-300x244.jpg 300w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/05\/vera-768x624.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 824px) 100vw, 824px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI\u2019m not looking for hype, I\u2019m not looking for more followers, I don\u2019t give two f*cks.\u2019 I\u2019m making my money, I\u2019m getting up, I\u2019m going after the belt. I\u2019m not going after the hype. I\u2019m not looking to be cool because I know I\u2019m cool. I know I\u2019m funny, I don\u2019t need to chase that sh*t. When you try too hard, you won\u2019t get it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Ecuadorian fighter also lamented the fact that Sean O\u2019Malley turned down the opportunity to face Vera again and this hasn\u2019t sat well with him.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jLqCI1tF1GE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe UFC three fights ago offered me this fight,\u201d Vera said. \u201cAnd I called my coach, and we went like this: \u2018Let\u2019s do this.\u2019 Sean Shelby, call him first. Don\u2019t call us, you know what\u2019s up with us. \u2026 They called him, and they never called back.\u201d<\/em> [h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/2022\/06\/ufc-news-marlon-vera-sean-omalley-favorable-matchup-pedro-munhoz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mmajunkie.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Sean O\u2019Malley\u2019s run is sure to get a lot harder as he\u2019s circling around the very top of the division. The current crop of bantamweight contenders are dangerous in every sense of the word and they\u2019ll certainly leave it all on the line when facing O\u2019Malley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC bantamweight Marlon Vera didn\u2019t hold back when talking about rival Sean O\u2019Malley in an interview with Brendan Schaub. \u2018Chito\u2019 Vera is the only man to defeat O\u2019Malley in the cage and his recent performances have earmarked him as one of the best fighters in the 135-pound division. As Marlon Vera continues his ascent towards [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":390549,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ufc"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}