One of the most decorated heavyweight fighters in MMA history, Fabricio Werdum is reportedly considering retirement from the sport — this and much more on Wednesday's social media roundup.
Fabricio Werdum considering retirement from MMA
Over his long 24 year career, Fabricio Werdum has cemented himself as one of MMA's best heavyweight fighters of all time with huge wins over the likes of Fedor Emelianenko and Cain Velasquez as well as winning the UFC heavyweight title.
Werdum signed with the promotion PFL last year and despite being arguably their biggest signing of the year, on Tuesday, the promotion announced their heavyweight roster for the 2022 season and the Brazilian was not on the list.
Fabricio Werdum is considering retirement after 24 years of fighting
— MMAFighting.com (@MMAFighting) March 29, 2022
Full story by @guicruzzz -- https://t.co/L8azjnXtAH pic.twitter.com/aKbJytNlRl
Werdum has only fought in PFL once and it was ended very controversially.
The result of the fight originally was a TKO win for Werdum's opponent Renan Ferreira but was overturned and deemed a no contest after footage showed that Ferreira previously tapped out to a triangle choke which Werdum had locked in on him.
In an interview with Ag.Fight , Werdum revealed that the travelling which it takes for him to be fully committed to MMA is the main reason as to why he is considering his retirement.
Werdum also revealed that he would step into the boxing ring if he was proposed with an exceptional amount of money.
Now that it looks like Werdum will probably be retiring, where do you rank Werdum on the list of best heavyweight fighters of all time?
On this day in 2019...
On this day in 2019, Justin Gaethje produced one of the most impressive finishes of his career where he knocked UFC veteran Edson Barboza out cold.
Check out a video of the finish below.
#OnThisDay in 2019, @Justin_Gaethje reminded everyone why they call him ------ ------------------ --
— UFC (@ufc) March 30, 2022
[ via @UFCOnThisDay @UFCFightPass ] pic.twitter.com/KnDkTpf17n
Gegard Mousasi set to defend the Bellator middleweight title again in June
Gegard Mousasi is becoming quite the active champion in Bellator and after smashing Austin Vanderford in February, Mousasi will once again defend his belt in June.
Mousasi will defend the middleweight title against Johnny Eblen at Bellator 282.
Gegard Mousasi has his next Bellator title defense booked. --#Bellator282 Full details: https://t.co/CW1igAgSEt pic.twitter.com/qa4AWm9oFB
— MMA Junkie (@MMAJunkie) March 29, 2022
Ilia Topuria unsure of which weight class to fight at
After his impressive performance at 155 pounds against Jai Herbert at UFC London, ranked UFC featherweight Ilia Topuria is seemingly pondering over which weight class to continue fighting at.
145 or 155? --
— Ilia Topuria (@Topuriailia) March 29, 2022
UFC London was actually the first time Topuria fought at lightweight and if he can keep delivering results like he did against Herbert then he will have no problems settling into life at lightweight.
Despite Topuria looking good at 155, he has a ranking at featherweight which he has worked towards for a long time and might be too much to give up considering the amount of competition he would have to go through to get the same at lightweight.
Robert Whittaker vs Marvin Vettori official for UFC 275
A huge middleweight fight is now official for UFC 275.
Former champion Robert Whittaker will face off against former title challenger Marvin Vettori at UFC 275 which will take place in Singapore.
Once more into the fray. #UFC275 #ReaperNation @UFC_AUSNZ @ufc pic.twitter.com/VtnncWCbYb
— Robert Whittaker (@robwhittakermma) March 29, 2022
Who do you think takes this one?
One of the most iconic combat sports pictures of all time
Check out this rare picture of Muhammad Ali watching Mike Tyson getting his hand wraps back in 2005.
Ali was present in Tyson's locker room before his fight against Kevin McBride.
Muhammad Ali watching Mike Tyson getting his hands wrapped before his fight vs Kevin McBride
— fight pics that go hard (@fightpicsgohard) March 30, 2022
Washington, D.C. (2005) pic.twitter.com/fq0fJBv9E1
UFC 273 bout order updated
Check out the new and updated bout order for UFC 273 which will be headlined by Alexander Volkanovski vs The Korean Zombie.
New #UFC273 bout order per UFC website.
— Marcel Dorff -------- (@BigMarcel24) March 30, 2022
- Latifi vs. Oleynik added.
- Imavov out. Du Plessis now fighting Gastelum.
- Hernandez now fighting Fremd.
And yes....If the order doesn't change anymore I'll do a live shoey after this card on camera. (I'm save for sure) pic.twitter.com/LqZQT8k3Qk
Muhammad Mokaev receives his purple bet in jiu-jitsu
Check out this video of UFC flyweight Muhammad Mokaev receiving his jiu-jitsu purple belt.
Happy to receive my purple belt by BJJ black belt Tarek, last time I got graded blue belt by Andy Aspinall
— Muhammad Mokaev (@muhammadmokaev) March 30, 2022
Long journey… this is just the little steps to main goal which is the UFC belt -- pic.twitter.com/84A0T7DuwG
Kelvin Gastelum gets new opponent for UFC 273
Kelvin Gastelum's new opponent at UFC 273 is Dricus Du Plessis.
Du Plessis was already on the card and was scheduled to fight Anthony Hernandez has been pulled from the fight, Hernandez remains on the card and he has been given a new opponent.
Dricus Du Plessis has been pulled from his #UFC273 fight with Anthony Hernandez and will instead fight Kelvin Gastelum on April 9.
— MMA Junkie (@MMAJunkie) March 29, 2022
Hernandez has received a replacement and remains on the card.
Full details: https://t.co/Z49SX1N347 pic.twitter.com/s72H293gQh
