Former ONE heavyweight world champion Brandon Vera shall be making his much-awaited return to motion at ONE 164 on December 3. ‘The Fact’ shall be one in all many Filipino fighters who shall be preventing on the cardboard, together with ONE strawweight world champion Joshua ‘The Ardour’ Pacio, who shall be preventing in the principle occasion.
Forward of Vera’s important card bout in opposition to Amir Aliakbari in entrance of his residence crowd in Manila, ONE put collectively an Instagram submit chronicling the Filipino-American MMA icon’s martial arts journey:
“Brandon Vera won’t ever again down from a problem 😤 The Filipino-American makes his return to the Circle on December 3 to tackle Amir Aliakbari at ONE 164! 👊 @brandonthetruthvera”
From rising up with 9 siblings in Virginia, USA, to grinding it out in numerous promotions for 12 years to lastly successful his first world title in ONE Championship, Vera’s journey is a real depiction of a warrior’s path.
Now that he is nearing the ultimate stretch of his profession, ‘The Fact’ is primed and able to make one other shot at gold. All of it begins together with his return contained in the circle at ONE 164.
ONE CEO Chatri Sityodtong believes Brandon Vera is engaged on getting again into the world title image
ONE CEO and Chairman Chatri Sityodtong not too long ago sat down with CNN Sports activities Desk to speak about ONE 164. One of many attention-grabbing factors of the dialog was concerning the return of Fil-Am MMA icon Brandon Vera.
Vera was final seen dropping back-to-back bouts in opposition to Aung La N Sang and Arjan Bhullar in 2019 and 2021, respectively. Within the interview, Sityodtong spoke about Vera’s relationship together with his individuals and the way, even at 45 years previous, he’s nonetheless very a lot keen and in a position to make one other run on the world title:
“He [Vera] is clearly a famous person, and he isn’t simply probably the most adorned Filipino athlete in ONE, however I might argue he is probably the most adorned Filipino athlete in martial arts, full cease, ever. He is reached the top of the game in ONE and I feel he is hungry to get his title again.”
On this new era of fight sports activities, age is now not a difficulty on the subject of performing on the high. With new applied sciences and strategies created to push the human physique above and past its limits, fighters can nonetheless be aggressive with males half their age.
With wonderful examples set by the likes of Randy Couture, Glover Teixeira and former ONE bantamweight king Bibiano Fernandes, we do not see any cause why Brandon Vera will not have the ability to win one other world title sooner or later.