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Fabricio Werdum used to own a UFC championship belt. No one else in the PFL s heavyweight division can say that.
The jiu-jitsu black belt from Brazil has a half dozen gold medals from the World Jiu-Jitsu Championships and Abu Dhabi Combat Club World Championships. The other nine PFL heavies don t have even a single gold between them.
Werdum tapped out Fedor Emelianenko back when Fedor was Fedor, halting the Russian legend s decade-long unbeaten streak. That s something the rest of the heavyweights in the PFL can only dream about.
But the UFC title win came in 2015, the grappling golds between 2000 and 2009, the conquering of The Last Emperor in 2010. That was then, but what about now? In 2021, Werdum is a 43-year-old with just one victory in nearly 3½ years. He has the credentials, for sure, but does he still have the game?