Marlon Vera embraces UFC 299 opportunity with Sean O’Malley
The Newport Beach bantamweight, who made his UFC dreams come true after moving to Orange County from Ecuador in 2016, goes for the belt Saturday in Miami.
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Brian Martin is a deputy sports editor for the Southern California News Group and writes about mixed martial arts. He began working at the L.A. Daily News as a news editor in 2004. Before that, he was with the Glendale News-Press and Times Community News as a sportswriter, sports editor, news editor and managing editor. He joined the Daily News sports department as deputy sports editor in 2009. He began covering MMA with a 2011 story on future UFC superstar Ronda Rousey, which was awarded second place for Best Story in the California Newspaper Publishers Association's Better Newspapers Contest.
Location: Los Angeles, California, USA