{"id":230266,"date":"2025-10-21T15:46:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T15:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/230266\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T15:46:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T15:46:12","slug":"pissed-marlon-vera-would-have-slapped-ufc-vancouver-judges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/230266\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Pissed\u2019 Marlon Vera \u2018would have slapped\u2019 UFC Vancouver judges"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI watched the fight last night by myself to try and judge it, because I\u2019m my biggest critic,\u201d Vera told Uncrowned<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019m going to be honest \u2014 I still think I won the fight. I\u2019m not saying it was a f***ing 10-8 round each round, but I believe I won the fight. Then when [the judges] say his name, I say, \u2018F**k everybody\u2019 and just start flipping [the bird]. I was f***ing pissed. Thank God Elliott, the UFC security guy, it\u2019s someone that I love and respect and he\u2019s a very cool guy. Thank God he was there in that moment, because if I would have encountered a judge, I would have slapped the motherf***er.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI probably left before [Zahabi] even got to the back,\u201d Vera continued. \u201cI was pissed. I literally went to medicals, where they cut the wraps and they ask if you\u2019re fine, I was like, \u2018I\u2019m all good.\u2019 I said, \u2018Just get me f***ing an X-ray for my f***ing finger.\u2019 I was f***ing out. That took like, 90 seconds, and I literally walked from that to the car, barefoot, in my shorts, no T-shirt, no hoodie, nothing. Just walked out, go to the hotel and just walked straight to my room.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been a rough couple of years for the 32 year-old Vera (23-11-1), who dropped three in a row and four of his last five. \u201cChito\u201d has always been one of the busiest fighters at 135 pounds<\/a> so job security is hardly an issue, but his days of title contention are likely over for the foreseeable future, which is worth being \u201cpissed\u201d about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI watched the fight last night by myself to try and judge it, because I\u2019m my biggest critic,\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230267,"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-230266","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\/230266","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=230266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}