{"id":272490,"date":"2018-03-14T15:33:31","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T22:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=272490"},"modified":"2018-03-15T09:57:42","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T16:57:42","slug":"add-fabricio-werdum-to-the-list-of-fighters-wanting-on-the-massive-ufc-226-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/fabricio-werdum\/add-fabricio-werdum-to-the-list-of-fighters-wanting-on-the-massive-ufc-226-card\/","title":{"rendered":"Add Fabricio Werdum to the List of Fighters Wanting on the Massive UFC 226 Card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former UFC heavyweight champion Fabricio Werdum will attempt to improve his two-fight win streak this Saturday against Alexander Volkov. It&#8217;ll be his journey back to the title, which is well underway. He&#8217;s on the up and up as a whole recently. <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/fabricio-werdum\/breaking-fabricio-werdum-has-a-meeting-with-wwe-on-thursday\/\">He had a meeting with the WWE<\/a>, he got his UFC Spanish commentary gig back, now he&#8217;s shooting his shot to try and get on UFC 226 with a win at UFC London.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I\u2019m very happy to have my commentator job back. I love doing it in Spanish since I\u2019m fluent. I lived in Spain for several years. I have a Spanish passport. So I enjoy it. I have a lot of fans who were very happy to see me back in the booth. I received thousands of notes supporting me. Latin Americans, also in the United States, supported by return.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#x1f44b; We&#8217;re up next! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabricioWerdum?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@FabricioWerdum<\/a> vs <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlexDragoVolkov?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AlexDragoVolkov<\/a> on March 17 &#8211;<br \/>\nLIVE on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UFCFIGHTPASS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UFCFIGHTPASS<\/a>! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IhHxyJ1HNY\">pic.twitter.com\/IhHxyJ1HNY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 UFC Fight Pass (@UFCFightPass) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UFCFightPass\/status\/970192120240852992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 4, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Without a doubt, the business side [of my MMA career] is very important. I feel like a company guy now. I understand the organization now. For example, Stipe Miocic vs. Daniel Cormier \u2013 I understand why they booked that. It\u2019s something the fans welcome \u2013 two champions from two weight classes.\u00a0I\u2019m looking forward to watching it or commentating. And if I can fight on the same card, I\u2019ll do that too.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2018\/03\/fabricio-werdum-ufc-london-company-guy-dana-white-colby-covington-tony-ferguson\">Fabricio Werdum speaking to MMA Junkie<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If Fabricio Werdum gets passed rising contender Alexander Volkov, there aren&#8217;t many people Werdum could fight on the sure-to-be huge UFC 226 card. Derrick Lewis may still be nursing his hand injury, but if not that sounds like a great fight. Mark Hunt just lost to Curtis Blaydes, so maybe Blaydes could get a bump up in competition against Werdum, that is, if he wasn&#8217;t fighting Alistair Overeem at UFC 225. 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