With the purchase of Strikeforce by Zuffa, many fans who have been arguing over the internet over which promotion, the UFC or Strikeforce, had the best heavyweight fighters will eventually see their dream matches come true.
One of the heavyweights in question, Fabricio Werdum (14-4-1), the #2 ranked fighter on many sites, has received a lot of interest since his submission win over Russian fighter Fedor Emelianenko last summer.
Werdum has a chance to prove himself against the best as a participant in the Strikeforce Grand Prix Heavyweight tournament and opens his quarterfinal bout against Alistair Overeem, someone he’s beaten in the past. For the Brazilian, he is looking to repeat that win and eventually capture the Grand Prix tournament to prove he’s the best in the World. And after he’s done that, Werdum hopes to unify the Strikeforce and UFC titles sometime in the future. If that fight comes against Junior dos Santos, Werdum’s last loss and the only fighter to knock him out, then all the better.
The good side of it is that UFC is the best event on earth, Strikeforce was growing a lot too, so it’s the two greatest events and my goal is that: my main goal is to beat Overeem, get to the next phase, and I’ve beaten Overeem in 2006 in Pride’s GP on the first phase of the event, so things seems to be conspiring in my favor, it’ll be in June, my month, so things are good for me. So, I want to win this GP and then do this super fight against whoever UFC champion is. I don’t know if it’ll be Velasquez, dos Santos, or other guy… Whoever is the UFC champion is the one I want to fight, that’s what I want to do. I want to unify the titles, like it happens on Boxing…
That time Cigano defeated me it was the first time I was knocked out, I wasn’t excepting it, then I had that discussion with UFC, it wasn’t that we argued, but I was upset for losing the way it happened. I had been defeated before, but on a judge’s decision, this was the only time I was knocked out. So I wasn’t on a good state of mind because I had been defeated, I was far from my family. I’m not saying Cigano didn’t deserve it, because then he went there and kept winning. I’d be surprised if he had beaten me down and then lost. He went there and proved himself to be pretty good. I want to win this GP, to earn a belt, because I’ve never won one, and fight UFC’s champion. If it’s Cigano, I’d be a dream coming true. To do this unifier fight and against Cigano, a rematch, it’d be perfect.
HT: Tatame.com