Cain Velasquez is very experienced, he is always walking forward and mixes his boxing with his wrestling very well" He told Portal do Vale Tudo. "He's very conditioned. To be honest, I don't think his last injury was that serious, I think it was more of a strategy. I don't think he wasn't able to walk or had to go under emergency surgery. It's just my opinion, nobody told me that. I think he did it in order to slow me down a little because he saw I really wanted it. And I still do".
A neighbor of middleweight contender Lyoto Machida, Werdum also claimed The Dragon showed him some new moves he intends to use against Velasquez. He also believes Machida will win against Luke Rockhold.
Fabricio Werdum believes Velasquez injury was a strategy to slow him down - Bloody Elbow