Fabricio Werdum is out of the 2025 GFL season.
GFL introduced the previous UFC heavyweight champion is not competing “resulting from harm,” however the Brazilian fighter defined on the Mundo da Luta podcast this week that he didn’t really feel motivated to go on with the plan following Frank Mir’s current withdrawal from their anticipated matchup.
“Vai Cavalo” was slated to face Mir within the first half of 2025, however determined to drag the plug on his participation after Mir was compelled out of the deliberate match with an harm.
“I received’t combat for GFL anymore,” Werdum stated. “I hope it’s a cool occasion, I root for them so it offers different folks a possibility, so legends can combat every yet one more time. I need it to work. I consider it’s regular that issues like this occur, indecisions, two, three, 4 playing cards till the promotion will get issues going, however I made a decision to not combat.
“I got here again residence, I’m in Florianópolis now. I’ve modified my whole schedule now, I’m going again to my life with out fascinated about preventing. I’m 47 now.”
Werdum hasn’t fought since a bare-knuckle MMA bout with Junior dos Santos in September 2023, when he misplaced a choice. Previous to that, the UFC veteran misplaced through TKO to Renan Ferreira in his sole look underneath the PFL banner again in Might 2021, a consequence that was later overturned to a no-contest resulting from Ferreira allegedly tapping to a submission moments earlier than.
