{"id":457967,"date":"2010-03-22T10:59:48","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T14:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,yhoo:20050301:mma,article,yhoo-ept_sports_mma_experts-229381:1"},"modified":"2010-03-22T10:59:48","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T14:59:48","slug":"ouch-veras-face-broken-from-jones-elbow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/457967","title":{"rendered":"Ouch! Vera&#8217;s face broken from Jones elbow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a323.yahoofs.com\/ymg\/ept_sports_mma_experts__18\/ept_sports_mma_experts-658644749-1269269891.jpg?ymEmR3CDtUdj0Dok\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The elbow that <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mma\/blog\/cagewriter\/post\/Jones-elbow-forces-Vera-to-quit?urn=mma,229265\" >ended Brandon Vera&#8217;s bout with Jon Jones<\/a> at UFC on Versus 1 also did serious damage to Vera&#8217;s face. Jeremy Botter <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/JeremyHeavyMMA\/statuses\/10859421239\" >first reported<\/a> that Vera&#8217;s face was broken in three places, and Cagewriter sources confirmed that Vera can&#8217;t board a plane due to the injuries. <\/p>\n<p>Jones&#8217; elbows may be one of the most vicious weapons in MMA. Those elbows are what cut up Matt Hamill&#8217;s face in their December bout. Though Hamill won that fight because of Jones&#8217; illegal elbow, the message sent from both that bout and Sunight&#8217;s is clear. If you get hit with a Jon Jones elbow, your fight is not going to last very long.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The elbow that ended Brandon Vera&#8217;s bout with Jon Jones at UFC on Versus 1 also did serious damage to Vera&#8217;s face. Jeremy Botter first reported that Vera&#8217;s face was broken in three places, and Cagewriter sources confirmed that Vera can&#8217;t board a plane due to the injuries. Jones&#8217; elbows may be one of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4013,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}