Fabricio Werdum is wanting fairly good on the skin.
On the within, nonetheless, issues should not going so nicely. The previous UFC heavyweight champion just lately issued his declaration within the UFC antitrust lawsuit and revealed his ongoing battle with persistent traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).
The Brazilian has been knocked out 3 times in his UFC profession.
“Whereas combating for UFC, I suffered many concussions,” Werdum wrote. “I worry that in my profession I’ve suffered traumatic mind damage (TBI) and am noticing signs frequent with TBI and CTE together with irritability, anger, nervousness, insomnia and reminiscence loss. I’ve many lesions and scarring in my mind, and I’ve a cyst that’s positioned centrally inside my mind making surgical procedure to date inconceivable. I monitor this cyst with biannual exams to find out whether it is rising. So far, no therapy for CTE has been discovered.”
Most likely as a result of so many individuals consider it’s “faux.”
Werdum (24-10-1, 1 NC) has not competed since his Junior dos Santos rematch for Gamebred BareKnuckle MMA final fall. “Vai Cavalo” turned 47 again in July and is unlikely to make his return to fight sports activities after mind swelling pressured him from PFL.
The UFC antitrust case reached a settlement simply final month.
