Werdum narrowly escapes carbon monoxide poisoning
Fabricio Werdum is a month away for his chance at the UFC heavyweight title, but an incident this week at his home almost cost him that opportunity.
Fabricio Werdum is a month away for his chance at the UFC heavyweight title, but an incident this week at his home almost cost him that opportunity:
“It was terrible,” Werdum told MMAFighting.com. “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.
“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 will fight heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez on November 15th at UFC 181 in the promotion’s debut event in Mexico City.
