Fabricio Werdum spoke in an exclusive interview to Combate.com about his opinion on Anderson Silva following the positive PED tests:
“Anderson let a lot of people down, mostly because he said that fighters using PEDs shouldn’t fight anymore. Everybody wants to hear what he has to say. Let’s see if he’ll keep his word and retire. It damaged his image.”
‘Everybody knows who Anderson is and this happened out of nowhere. It damaged the image of the sport too, a image that took a long time to be built. People who dislike MMA say that the sport is a fraud and all fighters use drugs, but that isn’t the true. I can speak for myself, I’m a big guy but not that strong and muscled. I have never used.”
“Maybe he used something during his recovery and couldn’t get clean at the right time? I don’t think that he tried to enhance his performance. It’s hard to tell. Everything that he did for the sport can’t be erased. He had a long career and was a warrior. He was one of the greatest of all time, we can’t debate that.”
Werdum broke the bonds of friendship with Anderson Silva since he submitted Minotauro, in the final of TUF Brazil 2, in 2013. After the fight, Werdum said that the Spider had refused to hug him, and since then, they never spoke again.
Since that fight I never spoke with Anderson again and I will tell you that I did not even want to. I do not want to talk to him because he made that bad move there. After the fight against Minotauro, I went and hugged Rodrigo, hugged and talked to coach Luiz Dórea and saw Anderson “So Anderson? Give me a hug? “and he said,” No, no hug “. It was still in the octagon. So I don’t ever want to even want to talk to him after that. Of course I did not want him to get hurt like that in the fight against Weidman, but I was not rooting for Anderson. Because I think that when you have a friend, that person should not change or treat you different depending on where you are. If I meet you in the UFC today and treat well and there’ll meet you somewhere else tomorrow and not give you a bad time, so I’m not being truthful with you, and that’s not cool. And it was more or less what happened.
