Marlon Vera reveals how he ‘broke’ Sean O’Malley at UFC 252

Marlon “Chito” Vera was given the biggest opportunity of his career this past Saturday night at UFC 252. Vera had the opportunity to derail the hype train of the UFC’s biggest up-and-coming star “Suga” Sean O’Malley.

Vera did just that by defeating the unbeaten prospect in the first round. The amount of trash talk before the fight from his opponent and team only motivated Vera. Keeping his emotions in check was the key to victory.

There was an Instagram post that his opponent posted that got his attention.

“My wife sent me a post Sean made with Snoop Dogg yelling, ‘O’Malley, O’Malley, O’Malley,’ and it said ‘Chito Vera’s girlfriend in bed with Chito,’ or whatever,’ Vera said while speaking to reporters following the fight. “I laughed. I told my wife to not even reply. Don’t give it attention because I really don’t pay attention to that stuff. But somehow I was able to f*ck him up.

“People are mean on social media because, in other sports, they can say something and get away with it. In other sports if you talk wild, you get a sanction, a fine, or money taken away from you. The UFC lets you get away with it, which is cool. I don’t mind the trash talk. I enjoy it, I actually have fun.

My vocabulary was pretty bad when I won, but some people get away with things. The only problem is that you get baptized. If you want to talk wild, make sure you bring a pair of balls to the cage.”

Vera revealed that the trash talk from O’Malley’s coaches continued until the fight before the fight.

“I was shaking my head thinking, ‘You don’t even know what’s about to happen,’” Vera stated. “Like Dana White says, if you don’t know, now you know. I just knew something he didn’t know. Fighting is a f*ckin’ weird thing, dude. You just know. I don’t know how to explain it, I just had it inside of me.

“They kept yelling sh*t. Even Herb Dean told them to shut the f*ck up when the fight started. They’re yelling, ‘F*ck him, he’s scared.’ Why are you talking? Scared? I’m f*cking out there ready to die. I’m not letting you take money from my family. I’m not letting you take my ranking, I’m not letting you take nothing from me right now.

“If you’re talking sh*t, you better bring that same energy win or lose. If I’m insulting you, and I lose, I’m still gonna insult you after the fight.”

Vera explained he felt he broke the 24-year old will after landing a hard kick.

“There’s an energy to this game,” Vera explained. “When he kicked me hard, my energy didn’t drain. I wasn’t like, ‘Oh, f*ck, he kicked me so hard, let me throw in the towel.’ When he kicked me it was like, ‘Okay, you kicked me, now you’re gonna take mine.’ I checked one of those, too, so I thought that’s where the injury came from, but it actually came from a kick.

“That’s how you break fighters: when you take the best from them and nothing happens. I kicked him and he broke. That means my conditioning coaches are doing a great job.”

Vera calls out his next opponent Jimmie Rivera.

“I believe when the UFC comes back to Vegas in November, that would be pretty cool,” Vera said.

“I’m in the rankings now and I’m looking up. Let’s get the fight done with Jimmie. That’s the fight to make.”