ONE Championship: Brandon Vera would ‘love’ to give Aung La N Sang heavyweight title shot
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There might be plenty of fresh blood in the ONE Championship heavyweight ranks, but champ Brandon Vera is open to facing an old foe down the line.
Filipino 42-year-old Vera (15-7, one no contest) fell in his bid to wrest the light heavyweight championship from “The Burmese Python” Aung La N Sang (26-10) – who is also the promotion’s middleweight champ – last October at ONE: Century Part II in Tokyo.
And should the 35-year-old from Myanmar want to take a crack at becoming a three-division champ, “The Truth” is all for it.
“Aung is the man. If he wanted to come up to heavyweight and have a go I would absolutely love it,” Vera told SCMP MMA. “I think that would be so cool. I enjoyed our time in that Circle together.
“I’m a huge fan of Aung, he says he’s a huge fan of me. We’re basically cut from the same cloth. I would love if he came up to heavyweight, are you kidding me? That would be amazing.”