Not only is Fabricio Werdum the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s current undisputed heavyweight champion, but he now has a legitimate claim to being the greatest of all time.
Werdum submitted Cain Velasquez with a guillotine choke 2:13 into the third round of the UFC 188 headliner in Mexico City on Saturday night to unify the promotion’s heavyweight title. Now, the Brazilian known as “Vai Cavalo” owns a holy trinity of victories in his professional mixed martial arts career, as he has beaten Velasquez, Fedor Emelianenko and Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira -- all via submission.