Filed under: Featured , News , UFC Former UFC heavyweight champion Fabricio Werdum knows Derrick Lewis can’t match him on the mat. So he plans to take the fight there when they meet at UFC 216. “I think, I hope, I finish Derrick Lewis,” Werdum said during a media luncheon this week in support of his Oct. 7 pay-per-view fight with Lewis at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. “I want to try to finish him on the ground.” Werdum (21-7-1 MMA, 9-4 UFC), a decorated submission grappler and former ADCC champ, is no longer the one-sided threat of his early days. So he could stand and trade with Lewis (18-5 MMA, 9-3 UFC), a certified slugger who’s knocked out all but one of his UFC opponents.
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