For Marlon Vera , a lot ridding is riding on UFC Fight Night 183 . The rising bantamweight contender takes on former UFC and WEC featherweight champion and recent bantamweight title challenger Jose Aldo in the co-main event on Saturday night in Las Vegas. It’s a big fight in the UFC’s 135-pound division, and Vera (18-6-1 MMA, 10-5 UFC) believes it’s one that should put him in the title mix if victorious. “Yeah, 100 percent, that’s the idea of asking for one of these fights,” Vera told MMA Junkie in Spanish during Thursday’s media day. A victory over someone like him, it puts me directly in line to fight for the belt. “He was coming off a title fight, which on the business end, if I beat someone who’s coming off a title loss, that puts me in line.
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