As noted earlier today, Fabricio Werdum escaped a near-death experience as the number-one ranked Heavyweight contender nearly suffered carbon monoxide poisoning.
Now that the story is public, the UFC 180 co-headliner has sounded off on the experience, telling the folks at MMA Fighting some of the specific details of what went down.
“It was terrible,” said Werdum. “We came to Nevado de Toluca to train, and we didn’t see the house before renting it. There was no power, nothing, and it was really cold there. I was there with 12 other guys from my team, and they got us a gasoline generator to get power. They usually left the generator outside the house, but put this one inside the house.”
Werdum continued, “We were training inside the house, had dinner and went to bed. They didn’t tell us to turn that thing off before sleeping. I woke us in the middle of the night with a huge headache, nausea, and couldn’t get out of bed. Everyone was dizzy. My brother got out of his bed and managed to turn that thing off. We almost died from poisoning. We went to the hospital, everybody throwing up and with diarrhea. The doctor said that we would have died in two hours if nobody had turned that thing off.”
Werdum, proving he has a good sense of humor about the situation, concluded by saying, “What doesn’t kill make you stronger. That made me stronger. We’re fine now. That was a huge scare. We almost died. Imagine the headlines: ‘Werdum moves his camp to Mexico and dies with his whole team.’ We were searching for a breath of fresh air and almost died from carbon monoxide poisoning [laughs].”
Fabricio Werdum challenges Cain Velasquez for the UFC Heavyweight Championship in the main event of UFC 180, which takes place on November 15, 2014 at Arena Mexico in Mexico City, Mexico, airing live on pay-per-view.
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