His nickname may translate to “Go Horse” in Portuguese, but Fabricio Werdum does not fool around when it comes to training and hand-to-hand combat. For more than 15 years, he has fought -- and beaten -- many of the greatest heavyweights of his generation, from Alistair Overeem, Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira and Cain Velasquez to Fedor Emelianenko and Mark Hunt. Werdum has pieced together a hall-of-fame resume in the process.
The latest installment of The Film Room examines some of Werdum’s classic fights ahead of his showdown with former Bellator MMA heavyweight champion Alexander Volkov in the UFC Fight Night 127 main event on Saturday in London:
Dethroning an Emperor
Werdum met Emelianenko in a co-promoted event between Strikeforce and M-1 Global on June 26, 2010.