What Werdum said to Browne at the staredown

If you get close enough to the action in mixed martial arts, you sometimes hear some odd things. While reffing one fight, several times after a guy got hit, I could hear him say “Owww.” Another time a guy on bottom Guard had blood pooling in his eye socket; when he got hit, it went flying off his face and spattered the top fighter’s corner. The bottom fighter looked over, figured out what happened and started laughing. Then the now bloodied corner started laughing. And the top fighter joined in.

At the UFC 203 faceoffs, as co-main-event fighter and former UFC heavyweight champion Fabrico Werdum walked to the stage, he could be heard muttering something.

After he faced off with challenger Travis Browne, he stuck his hands in his pockets and spoke some more. The camera didn’t catch it all, and it was in Brazilian Portuguese.

However, if ever you want to know anything about Brazilian MMA, ask Guilherme Cruz for MMA Fighting. He knows everything.

As Werdum approached the stage, according to Cruz, the fighter said to his cornermen, “let’s break this motherf***er.”

Then after the faceoff, Werdum spoke again.

“I will break your face, bastard,” said Werdum told Browne. “… I’ll break your rib, clown. You know I will break you. You know I will break you. You know that.”

Browne did not appear to know much if any Portuguese, and nodded.

Fabricio Werdum fights Travis Browne in the co-main event of UFC 203 on Saturday, September 10, 2016 at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. Saturday’s fight is a rematch. Werdum took the first one via Unanimous Decision at UFC in FOX 11, on April 19, 2014.

That got him a title shot at Mark Hunt for the Interim title, which he unified in his next fight, defeating Cain Velasquez. Then he lost the title to Stipe Miocic in May. The main event vs. Alistair Overeem Saturday is Miocic’s first title defense.

If Werdum has a spectacular performance on Saturday, he could get the winner of the main event.