Interimtitelhållaren Fabricio Werdum kommer härnäst att möta tungviktsmästaren Cain Velasquez, en match som Werdum vill ska äga rum i Mexico. Här kan ni läsa vad Werdum hade att säga om det kommande mötet, och hur han tror matchen kommer att se ut, via ”MMAFighting”:
I want to fight against Cain Velasquez in Mexico City because I stayed there about two months before my fight and Dana White called me about Velasquez’s knee injury. I’m ready for the fight. I wanna it there because the Latin American fans want the fight. They want this fight. I want to fight again in Mexico. It’s very good there. The last event was amazing, 24,000 people inside the arena. It was good.
I think he’s coming with the same game. He has a very nice game, boxing very hard, has good takedowns, but I think he’ll do the same thing. I think maybe on the ground. I see the fight the same thing of the Fedor Emelianenko fight. Triangle, submitting him. Or the big surprise. Maybe I’ll knock him down.
Nobody believed when I knocked down Mark Hunt. People said before the fight ‘oh, Werdum maybe submits him, or Mark Hunt knocks him down’. But nobody expected me to knock down Mark Hunt. Nobody. They say ‘Werdum, please, don’t fight Cain Velasquez standing, boxing and muay thai, but I believe in myself man.
I just showed a lot of times, against Travis Browne. They said ‘Werdum, please, go to the ground with him’, and I killed it with Travis Browne in the stand up. I punched him, broke his rib, nose, everything. Yes. This is very important. In the Travis Browne fight, I broke his mind. This is very important.
Det har ryktats om att titelmatchen kommer äga rum den 13 juni i Mexico, men om det blir då som de båda kämparna möts återstår att se.
