Currently serving a doping suspension that he considers unfair, former heavyweight champion Fabricio Werdum is trying to negotiate the rescission of his UFC contract. Last September, Werdum (23-8-1 MMA, 11-5 UFC) was handed a two-year suspension by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, after testing positive for the steroid trenbolone and its metabolite epitrenbolone in an out-of-competition test conducted last April. The ex-champ was quick to state his innocence right after news broke that he’d been flagged, and would later talk in detail about the lengths he went through in trying to prove that to USADA – including a five-hour meeting in which he said he turned down a request to “snitch” on fellow athletes. More recently, in chat with MMAjunkie Radio , Werdum’s manager, Ali Abdelaziz, said that “I don’t think Fabricio fights in the UFC again,” though he did expect the fighter to return to MMA. The heavyweight, himself, confirmed these intentions in a chat with Brazil’s Portal do Vale Tudo on Thursday.
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Suspended ex-champ Fabricio Werdum wants out of UFC contract – MMA Junkie