Fabricio Werdum is out of the 2025 GFL season.
GFL announced the previous UFC heavyweight champion is not competing “resulting from damage,” 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 latest withdrawal from their anticipated matchup.
“Vai Cavalo” was slated to face Mir within the first half of 2025, however determined to tug the plug on his participation after Mir was pressured out of the deliberate match with an damage.
“I received’t struggle for GFL anymore,” Werdum stated. “I hope it’s a cool occasion, I root for them so it offers different folks a chance, so legends can struggle every yet one more time. I would like it to work. I imagine 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 struggle.
“I got here again house, I’m in Florianópolis now. I’ve modified my total schedule now, I’m going again to my life with out desirous 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 call. Previous to that, the UFC veteran misplaced through TKO to Renan Ferreira in his sole look underneath the PFL banner again in Could 2021, a consequence that was later overturned to a no-contest resulting from Ferreira allegedly tapping to a submission moments earlier than.
