After Junior Dos Santos was left without an opponent for his planned UFC Fight Night 105 appearance, many viewed former ex-champ Fabricio Werdum – who’d recently had his own UFC 208 appointment scrapped – as a good choice to fill in. That included Dos Santos himself, who then said he couldn’t make much sense of why Werdum had turned down the booking for what he said was the third time in the past few months. Werdum, however, can offer his own explanation as to why the fight – which he says he didn’t get an official UFC offer for – was simply not the right fit for him at that moment. “I wasn’t apt to fight him at that moment because as soon as they canceled the (Cain) Velasquez scrap, I stopped training entirely,” Werdum told MMAjunkie.
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