UFC heavyweight contender Fabricio Werdum has signed a new, five-fight contract with the UFC and will take on UFC newcomer Junior “Cigano” dos Santos at UFC 90 on October 25th in Chicago, according to Tatame.
According to Werdum, the new contract stipulates that he will receive a heavyweight title shot if he is victorious in his next bout.
“It’s my last fight under the old contract and, with a victory, my first new contract’s fight will be for the title,” Werdum told Tatame. “I deserve that, I’m training hard for that, I wanna be UFC heavyweight champion. A final against Minotauro would be like a dream, it would be great for me, because I fought against him at Pride and it was a great fight, he deserved the victory, and I wanna say that fighting for the belt against Minotauro, probably on March.”
Werdum (11-3-1) disappointed in his UFC debut, losing a unanimous decision to former UFC heavyweight champion Andrei Arlovski at UFC 70 in early-2007. He bounced back from the debut loss with back-to-back TKO victories over Gabriel Gonzaga at UFC 80 and Brandon Vera at UFC 85 in June. A veteran of PRIDE, Werdum posted victories in the organization over Alistair Overeem and Aleksander Emelianenko and dropped a unanimous decision to current UFC heavyweight champion Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira.
Dos Santos (6-1) has not had a fight go past the first round, defeating all but one of his opponents via TKO or submission in the opening frame. His lone loss was a fight-round armbar submission to Joaquim Ferreira last November. In his latest fight “Cigano” defeated Geronimo Mondragon via technical knockout due to a cut in May.
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Nog will handle Werdum without even breaking a sweat. Well wait he’s a sweat machine so scratch that.
Big Nog v Werdum rematch would interest me greatly
without breaking a sweat? do you watch Nog’s fights? I bet he’ll get the shit beat out of him for the first 3 rounds, then he’ll pull off a submission and the fight will be over…
i think nog would break a sweat..it should be a competitive match there is a chance though that mir could beat nog….thats not gonna happen though unless mir gets really really lucky!
Take it easy guys…I said ‘scratch that’. It’s called sarcasm and I am chock full of it today. :)
I actually like Mir’s chances but I think you’re right…he hasn’t been the same since his accident. I was sure glad to see him beat Lesnar, though.
Does anyone know why in the RUMORS section it says that the Ultimate Fighter 8 will be broadcast immediately following UFC Fight Night 14? Hasn’t that happened already or did they mean 15?
Nobody understands you do they Dannyboy…Your just the Maverick of MMA blogging…Its okay..the world needs people like you…it keeps everything level…like ying/yang, good/evil, Dana/elite xc…
I like Mir and Big Nogueira. I think Frank subs him in the fourth.
I think in the Mir/Nog fight you see Nog beating up Mir pretty bad in the standup. Both guys are verry good on the ground but I don’t think Nog will even need to go to the ground to beat Mir. Plus we ALL know Mir will gass out completely if it goes past 2mins. So no worries for Nog.
Anyone notice the huge transition the HW division has gone from striker to grappler? It use to be AA, Sylvia, Paul Beunatello (sp?) and all these wanna be big bangers, now its got herring and congo among Werdum, Gabirel Gonzaga, Nog, Lesnar, and others.. poor strikers.
i hate nog or as i like to call him the human punch bag
wow nog is such an easy guy to like i cant believ you hate him……i got nog winning secong round tko….if lesner can drop then nog definitly can…..and im telling everyone that nog is gonna hit mir harder than the ground did in his motorcycle accident!
Mir is better now. When I saw him last December he was freaking huge but not fat.I think his cardio has actually gotten better since he went to Striking Unlimited. I actually like both fighters I just think a Dec/NYE showdown in Vegas favors the hometown boy…
good point dietrich….the dec show is gonna be sick!…i know dana has some great fights already lined up for then…i would bet the winner of huerta and florian will fight penn in dec 2 title fights
It will be a good one either way. I’d love to see Mir champ again. He’s matured a bit and some of that cockiness has gone… then again… that could be why he was such a winner.
BTW… does anyone else here think Mir would do well as a LHW?
I think he would be better at lhw…but I don’t see him being a top dog with liddel, silva, griffin, jackson….his stand up is way to slow
Yeah I guess you’re right Cole. He may end up turning into a Shinya “Let me jump on you and force guard” Aoki. I wouldn’t want that.
Haha…how did Mir get a title shot anyways?? hes only won 2 in a row and the last one was Brock lesnar…must be because all the heavy’s took off?
hey cole ive just watch the lesnar mir fight its worse then i remember steve saved mirs ass big time
Mir at LHW
Short Answer …
He can compete but that division is like playing Russian Roulette in The Deer Hunter.
Mir is going to get killed, then because it was a title fight they’ll give him another shot and he’ll probaby lose that and go the way of david louaso
yay i dont even care about this guy at all he could fight wherever
i really think nog is gonna just destroy him t=like nothing…he didnt deserve a title shot….he should have faced werdum for the #1 contender……..also they need to stop making all the ultimate fighters champs vs challenger its stupid it holds up the title it should be like team gsp vs team penn….i dont know why gsp hasnt couched yet
“…and will take on UFC newcomer Junior “Cigano†dos Santos at UFC 90″
I haven’t seen this guy yet, is he any good? …at least better than Kimbo?
http://www.fromthecage.com
I haven’t seen him fight either.6-1 looks like an easy payday for Werdum.Its his grocery money fight…
haha werdum got owned by cigano.