Having beaten for the second time also-Brazilian Gabriel Napao, chuteboxer Fabricio Werdum returned to the list of top challengers for the UFC heavyweight belt, according to the president of the organization himself. But to remain at the top, the fighter has a tough task ahead of him: Philippino/American Brandon Vera.
Despite the loss at UFC 77 to Tim Sylvia, Vera, a Jiu-Jitsu brown belt, is coming off eight wins in a row against such names as Frank Mir, Mike Whitehead and Assuerio Silva.
To avoid any setbacks, Werdum has been applying himself in training, to show once again a dangerous mixture of muay thai and Jiu-Jitsu. Should he win, Werdum has no doubts: he wants Rodrigo Minotauro’s belt.
“Training has been really tough, intensive. Every day we train from 5 to 6, sometimes even seven hours per day. I’m sure it will be a good fight (against Vera), from the fact that I want the belt by year’s end. I’ll fight this one, but I’m already thinking of the next one, I’m going to concentrate on this fight, but in December I want to fight Minotauro to be able to take this belt,” said the fighter in an interview on the official Chute Boxe site.
