If ONE Championship heavyweight champ Brandon Vera has any advice to pass along to his one-time opponent Jon Jones about chasing heavyweight ambitions, it’s this: always be humble.
That’s the phrase Vera has carried for the past decade of his career, through a tumultuous stretch of his career in the octagon, halfway around the world in the Asia-based ONE as he chased belts in two divisions. Jones taught him those words.
This year marked the 10-year anniversary of Vera’s loss to Jones in the UFC. Vera had been beaten before he met “Bones” in the main event of UFC on Versus 1 on March 21, 2010.