Cuba In 2015, he won a bronze medal at the
2015 Pan American Games. In 2016, he won a gold medal at the
Pan American Wrestling Championships while competing for Cuba. He would be the Cuban national champion four times. In 2019 he would begin competing for his adopted country. In 2023, Vera won a bronze medal at the Pan American Championships for the United States, and in 2024, he won a silver medal at the event for Team USA. In 2024, Vera qualified the United States for the
2024 Summer Olympics in the 97 kg division at the
2024 Pan-American Olympic Qualification Tournament in Acapulco, Mexico. Vera narrowly missed out representing the U.S. at the Olympics when he came in second place in the U.S. Olympic Wrestling Trials. == Personal life ==