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Former UFC Champion Talks About Doing Pro Wrestling

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Former UFC Heavyweight Champion Fabricio Werdum has a busy schedule with the Las Vegas promotion, but he wants to add more to his workload.

Werdum already has his next fight lined up as he is slated to main event UFC London on March 17 against Alexander Volkov, which marks his fourth fight since July.

While promoting the upcoming fight, he mentioned that he’s trying to negotiate a deal with WWE.

It all started once the name of current WWE Universal Champion and former Heavyweight Champion Brock Lesnar was brought up.

There have been rumblings that Lesnar could make a UFC return once his contract with the sports entertainment company expires next month after WrestleMania 34 where he is set to defend his title against Roman Reigns.

Werdum claimed that he will have a meeting with a WWE official later this week. It should be noted that Kickboxer producer Rob Hickman helped him set up a meeting with the WWE representative.

”I think that both (at the same time) is doable,” Werdum told MMA Fighting. “You can do WWE. … If I had the opportunity I’d fight there, no problem. It’s financially great. Fight at WWE, a spectacle that is fun to do. I’d definitely do it. I have a meeting Thursday about it, doing both (UFC and WWE). I want to fight, doesn’t matter where.”

”I’ll have this meeting Thursday in San Diego to see if something happens with WWE,” Werdum said. “It’s cool, a unique opportunity to do a few fights there as well. People think it’s easy, but it’s not. You have to be well trained to do those jumps, you have to be agile. It’s not easy as some people might think. It’s quite complicated. You have to be well trained and practice a lot to captivate the audience.”.

”I’m fluent in Spanish, so I can do a character that speaks Spanish,” Werdum said. “That would be cool. I’d really like to have this opportunity to do this and captivate the Latin audience because they really love WWE. I’d be thrilled to do a fight there, or more, or a contract, because there’s no problem with the UFC since it’s not a real fight, it’s more of a show.”

Update: Fabricio Werdum has since clarified that he is interested in doing lucha libre pro wrestling – not specifically WWE.

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