Losing to Jose Aldo was the best thing that could happen to Marlon Vera . After handing Sean O’Malley his first and only career loss in August 2020, Vera got a big opportunity against former champion Aldo at the end of the year. After rallying to win Round 2, Vera was held down for all of Round 3, losing the fight by unanimous decision . Vera (21-8-1 MMA, 15-7 UFC) says he made a costly mistake to start the final round, and was able to take very valuable lessons from that loss. “That loss hurt me so much because watching on TV is something, but being in there, like the first round, I was calculating, I was trying to figure out his speed, I was trying to see his body shots,” Vera told Kevin Iole .
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UFC 299 title challenger Marlon Vera: Jose Aldo loss ‘best mistake of my life’ – MMA Junkie