One of the top Latin American prospects in the UFC won’t be fighting in the organization’s debut event in Chile.
Due to a minor injury, Marlon Vera has been forced to withdraw from the UFC’s first trip to a South American country outside of Brazil. According to Vera, the UFC planned on having him on the card and they were working on finding him an opponent for the May 19 event that’s set to go down at the Movistar Arena in Chile’s capital of Santiago.
“Yeah, even before the fight in Brazil (at UFC Belem against Douglas Silva de Andrade) they had already told me that I was going to be on that event (UFC Chile),” Vera told MMA Fighting.