{"id":226506,"date":"2025-10-20T03:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T03:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/226506\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T03:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T03:03:08","slug":"marlon-vera-rages-after-split-decision-loss-to-zahabi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/226506\/","title":{"rendered":"Marlon Vera rages after split-decision loss to Zahabi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Bantamweight title challenger Marlon Vera suffered another tough setback last night (Sat., Oct. 18, 2025), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-live-stream-watch-free\/395781\/ufc-vancouver-results-highlights-de-ridder-vs-allen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">losing a competitive split decision<\/a> to surging <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-mma-rankings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">No. 9-ranked<\/a> contender Aiemann Zahabi at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-live-stream-watch-free\/395781\/ufc-vancouver-results-highlights-de-ridder-vs-allen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC Vancouver<\/a> inside Rogers Arena in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In the second frame, \u201cChito\u201d found his rhythm, rocking Zahabi with a sharp right hand and following up with aggressive ground-and-pound to clearly take the round. But once again, his urgency faded late. In the third, Zahabi pushed the pace, landing cleaner shots and doing just enough to sway the judges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">After the bout, Vera voiced his frustration in typical fashion, taking to social media to air his grievances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201c Sometimes things can get really dark,\u201d Vera wrote on social media. \u201cBut not giving up will get you light. Don\u2019t get it twisted I won tonight, we got robbed in Canada.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cToday I won and the judges robbed me,\u201d Vera doubled down in another post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">While it was close, Vera (23-11-1) has no one to blame but himself. The loss marks his third straight defeat and his fourth in five fights, extending the toughest stretch of his UFC career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For complete UFC Vancouver results and play-by-play click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-live-stream-watch-free\/395781\/ufc-vancouver-results-highlights-de-ridder-vs-allen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Bantamweight title challenger Marlon Vera suffered another tough setback last night (Sat., Oct.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396,45879,6656],"class_list":["post-226506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news","tag-ufc-on-espn-fight-night","tag-ufc-results"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}