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Alexander Gustafsson and Fabricio Werdum, who will meet in a heavyweight fight on July 25, have differing recollections of their past sparring session.<\/p>\n

Gustafsson and Werdum only trained together briefly, many years ago at Mark Munoz’s gym.<\/p>\n

In a recent interview with Sherdog<\/a>, Werdum looked back on that sparring session. He claims he left Gustafsson with stitches,<\/a> and that their time training together ended badly.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt happened around eight years ago when I went to train wrestling at Mark Munoz\u2019s academy,\u201d Werdum said (h\/t APMMA.net)<\/a>. \u201cWhen I arrived there, Travis Browne and Gustafsson were doing an MMA sparring session coordinated by his trainer, who invited me to join them. I imagined the trainer would do some kind of rotation sparring, but he put me in the middle with both coming in sequence.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course it was not fair. First I did it with Browne, later with Gustafsson and again with Browne and again with Gustafsson. In that second sparring session, Gustafsson opened a cut on my nose, then I grabbed his neck in a Thai clinch and hit a knee in his face, which opened a big cut. I imagine he got around five stitches in there. Of course, Gustafsson and his trainer got angry with me, said a couple of bad words and the sparring didn\u2019t\u00a0finish in a good atmosphere. I don\u2019t have a problem talking about tactics. Gustafsson knows I want to take him down and that\u2019s no secret. And I\u2019ll take him down and submit him. I live on the same street as\u00a0Lyoto Machida, and he is helping me a lot concerning approach and distance for this fight.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Werdum paints a picture of a bloody and rather unpleasant sparring session, Gustafsson has a different recollection of things. The Swede, who will be making his heavyweight debut against Werdum, says their sparring together was fun.<\/p>\n

He’s also confident he won their sparring rounds.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve sparred with Werdum, actually, ten years ago,\u201d Gustafsson told \u00a0MMAnytt<\/a> last month. \u201cIt was at Mark Munoz’s gym in Los Angeles. He was champion then, and he was fit. It was a strong version of Werdum then. I\u2019d had a fight two weeks after, and we went at it hard. I\u2019d say that I won that sparring. So we have a bit of a past.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah he came in with knees to the head. But we both went all in. It was good sparring. I won that sparring. It was kind of fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

Who do you think will come out on top when Alexander Gustafsson and Fabricio Werdum meet in the Octagon on July 25?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alexander Gustafsson and Fabricio Werdum, who will meet in a heavyweight fight on July 25, have differing recollections of their past sparring session. Gustafsson and Werdum only trained together briefly, many years ago at Mark Munoz’s gym. In a recent interview with Sherdog, Werdum looked back on that sparring session. 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