Cain Velasquez (This story appears in today’s edition of USA TODAY .) By the time UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez sets foot in the cage Saturday, 602 days will have passed since his last fight. That’s a little more than 18 months of inactivity, the longest layoff of Velasquez’s career . That makes it difficult to know exactly what sort of shape the 32-year-old Velasquez (13-1 MMA, 11-1 UFC) will be in when he squares off against interim champion Fabricio Werdum (19-5-1 MMA, 7-2 UFC) in Saturday’s UFC 188 main event in Mexico City (10 p.m. ET, pay-per-view). Depending on whom you ask, it might even be the most significant variable in the fight and the greatest threat to Velasquez’s continued title reign. In boxing, they call it “ring rust.” In MMA, it was once dubbed “cage corrosion” by Showtime commentator Mauro Ranallo
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