{"id":917737,"date":"2026-10-06T04:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T04:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/917737\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T04:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T04:00:08","slug":"video-jose-aldo-escapes-heel-hook-grappling-match-with-marlon-vera-ends-in-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/917737\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Jose Aldo escapes heel hook, grappling match with Marlon Vera ends in draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">A submission-only grappling match between Jose Aldo and Marlon Vera ended in a draw Sunday night in Quito, Ecuador, after neither MMA veteran managed to secure a finish during the 10-minute showdown at Hype.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">A local star returning to his native Ecuador for his first competition in the country since 2012, Vera spent the first five minutes attempting a takedown while the Brazilian stood in the corner denying every opportunity. Vera called Aldo to the center of the ring then, and the ex-UFC champion decided to pull guard. The only real threat in the match happened when Vera pulled for a heel hook, but Aldo escaped.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Aldo, who holds a decision victory over \u201cChito\u201d from their UFC days in 2020, now has a grappling draw in his record against the Ecuadorian fighter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The co-main event bout was originally set to feature former UFC interim welterweight champion and current RAF titleholder Colby Covington versus local MMA fighter Mayton Perea in a submission-only match, but \u201cChaos\u201d was replaced at the 11th hour by Juan Albarello.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Hype did not reveal why Covington didn\u2019t enter the ring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Perea, who signed a deal with the UFC in September after scoring a 45-second knockout at Dana White\u2019s Contender Series, tapped to a foot americana in just over two minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A submission-only grappling match between Jose Aldo and Marlon Vera ended in a draw Sunday night in Quito,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":917738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85],"class_list":["post-917737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917737","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=917737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/917738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}