Brandon Vera Announces Contract Extension
Brandon Vera, who is expected to return to the UFC in October to take on Tim Sylvia, has signed a 6 fight contract with the UFC. Vera announced the news during an appearance on Fight Network Radio.
With a 4-0 record Vera made his UFC debut defeating Fabiano Scherner with a second round TKO at UFC Fight Night 2. He next posted a quick KO win over Justin Eilers at UFC 57 and quickly followed it up with another win, this time a submission victory over Assuerio Silva at UFC 60. In his last fight in late 2006 Vera dominated former heavyweight champion Frank Mir at UFC 65 winning via TKO in just 69 seconds.
Following the win over Mir it was thought Vera would receive a chance at then-Heavyweight Champion Tim Sylvia at UFC 68 but after issues arose with his manager Mark Dion the title shot ultimately went to Randy Couture. Vera, who will be out of action for nearly a year when he returns in October, has shown great potential but has not yet fulfilled every fighters dream of capturing a title.
The new contract will keep Vera in the UFC for approximately 2 years and will allow him to accept a title bout whenever it is offered to him. The UFC has shown preference in giving fighters with long-term contracts title shots over fighters who only have one or two fights remaining on their contracts due to the risk of having a championship fighter leave the organization if a new deal is not reached.
In his time away from fighting the UFC’s heavyweight division has been bolstered with fighters like Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic, Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira, and Cheick Kongo which will make his path to the UFC title that much harder.
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Vera returns?!?!? Awsome , i cant wait to see him back in action , never a boring fight.I think he will fare well even with all the new HW fighters from pride, Vera is hungry for the title.
I honestly hope he is successful in his debut. I try not to get too personal towards any fights or fighters but I think the UFC can really use a guy like Vera is great at getting people to watch fights and discuss them afterwards.
I hope he is sucessfully KTFO by AA, nog, whoever.
except tim silvia, if they fight I hope they simotaneously slip and knock each other out with headbutt.
Vera will find the wild west is now full of experts instead of amatuers and he is in for rude awakening. He says give me fedor? Ha! Heath Herring would F%$#ing demolish this guy.
dont agree wit the herring totally dominating Vera……watch his fights man see how easy he makes them look…i do however agree wit the fact that vera should not call out fedor cuz fedor is a beast when it comes to fighting….but any one who faces fedor has to remember that his hand is permenantly f***ed and thats all it takes is one good block on his hand to fracture it again…although fedor is gonna come in fight randy after he beats gonzaga and unify the titles….then go on a long title rain until minataro beats him for his title back by submission causing fedor to state family problems as the cause of the loss….thats when Vera gets his shot and becomes champion only to lose the title in the next fight to arlovski….LOL u heard it here 1st folks
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Arlovski? That guys game has gone way south. He seems frightened of getting KOd now. Ravine, I like the way you think( except for Randy losing to Fedor ) I really can't wait to see Randy fight some of these guys, Nogueira, Fedor, Cro Cop……. As far as Heath Herring goes, he's washhed up, I think the UFC has proven it has much better talent than it has been given credit for(before the Pride merger) The one fighter I think will have the biggest problems striking up a win is Tim Silvia. I think he is to one dementional. I don't want to heare about his Jits he used against Monson, Monson is a bad ass midget.
Vera will be facing Tim Sylvia at UFC 77 in Cincinnati…
That's great for Vera, he's out to prove himself to the world, and Sylvia is not at 100%(Militich needs to Lysol their mats!)
I wonder if Vera will be getting six figures for each of his fights.