Fabricio Werdum is not willing to let Junior Dos Santos drag his name all over social media. Vai Cavalo found it in his heart to respond to provocations made by Junior Dos Santos out of American Top Team and launched a challenge: if Stipe Miocic can’t return to the octagon soon he’ll face Dos Santos for the interim heavyweight belt!
“Cigano is talking too much. I even wanted to throw out a challenge to not have this thing. I do not know if people say he ran, he’s scared, but I’ve been fighting for 20 years. I fought the best in the world and I’m afraid of the Cigano ? Some nonsense that you can not understand. He says I’m running, that I’m a lie that worked, so why does he want to fight a lie that worked? Want to fight a guy that’s a lie? The fans talk, but I do not believe it, it’s envy. He was a champion, I do not know why he has this with me. I heard that Miocic is having contract problems and wants to earn more, but I want to launch the challenge of a fight for the interim belt, me and Cigano. Just set the right date for us to fight. Without replacing someone or fighting with another guy I was not prepared to fight six days before. You have to make a right deal. It would be fair for me to fight him for the interim belt if Miocic can not fight. Because I’m first in the rankings, I’m next, I have to fight Miocic. No other” – Werdum told Combate.
Junior Dos Santos was scheduled to face Stefan Struve February 11th but due to injury Struve is out of the card.
Werdum was subsequently contacted by the UFC to be the substitute but he declined explaining his obligations out of the country are keeping him. He’s supposed to travel to South Korea, Russia and Latin America – plus he’s taking a vacation following Cain Velasquez cancelation so he’s paused the training.
Werdum went on to make a 2nd challenge to Junior Dos Santos:
“I can not replace someone yet. He talks a lot of bullsh*t, I can not understand. It must be the blows he’s taken from Cain Velásquez twice. I have another challenge for him too. There are those of the interim belt if Miocic can not fight, and also have a fight in the gym. After we fight in the Octagon, we both win money, I challenge to go to his gym. I’m going to Florida and I make a challenge: we’re going to do a fight without time, it’s only going to end if someone knocks or knocks. But you do not have time, you can not ask to stop because you’re tired. It’s the challenge I bring to Cigano, so we can do it after the fight. And whoever wins will have the right to post on social networks. The two can shoot and it will be inside the gym. Regardless of who wins, we make that challenge and I visit him there, for him to let go of my hand and see that it does not work that way. I would call the (Ricardo) Libório (ATT leader), whom I consider and respect a lot as a person and a teacher, to warn that I would be arriving. It would not come as a surprise. It would be behind closed doors, can not even call her mother. Or knocks (finishing) or knocks, you have no other choice, “
