Fabrico Werdum Says He Wants Out of His UFC Contract

Fabricio Werdum spoke with MMAjunkie about his desire to break his UFC contract due to his two-year USADA suspension for a positive drug test. Highlights are below:

On wanting out of his contract over his suspension: “Of course I love fighting in the UFC, but after this complication, this doping that I found unfair, I’d like to fight in other events…What I’d like to do right now is to be free, for the UFC to have the consideration with me to release me.”

On where he wants to fight: “There isn’t a possibility of going to Bellator. If I had the opportunity to say, and I have said, to the UFC, I will sign a term saying that I won’t fight in the U.S. anymore. I’d only fight abroad – Japan, Russia, Europe. Wherever it was.”

On not wanting good years to go to waste: “I’d just like to be free to do what I want to do, which is fighting. That’s it. I don’t want anything else. Like I said, it’s not about money. I still have a lot to show. I know I do. I’m 41, but I feel like a kid. I have no serious injuries. I’m doing good, physically.”

On his situation compared to Jon Jones’: “I don’t think (Jones) is to blame. He’s there to fight. He trained what he had to train, returned after two years. But I think that the system really makes it happen when they want to. The system wants something to happen, so it will happen. Many people blamed him, but it’s not his fault, he’s there to train. The fault, the way I see it, is the system’s. I think there should be equal rights. The same rule for everyone. And not change the rules for some, for Americans, or Russians, or Brazilians. I think there should be the same rule for everyone.”