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Fabricio Werdum
24-9-1tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Fabricio Werdum’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. All-rounder

Pro record24-9-1
Current streak1 win
Last 5 (UFC)W L L W W
DivisionHeavyweight
Age49
Height6' 4"
StanceOrthodox

6' 4" orthodox all-rounder campaigning at Heavyweight. 12 UFC wins — 4 KO/TKO, 4 submission, 4 decision.

Every figure here is recomputed at build time from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date. If a number isn’t in the data, it isn’t in this profile.

Tale of the tape facts

The facts, plainly — vitals and record from public UFC statistics; nickname, nationality, hometown and camp from the public fighter register. A field we can't source stays “pending”; it never shows a fake value.

NicknameVai Cavalo
NationalityBrazil
HometownPorto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul
Fighting out ofpending
Height6' 4"
Reach77.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age49
Date of birthJul 30, 1977
Weight231 lbs.
Pro record24-9-1
Finish split12 UFC wins — 4 KO/TKO, 4 submission, 4 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Fabricio Werdum’s UFC bouts, straight from public UFC statistics — the same eight numbers on his official record. These are the source’s figures, not our read: what we make of them is the card below.

Striking
Strikes landed / min3.59
Striking accuracy52%
Strikes absorbed / min2.64
Striking defence55%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min1.75
Takedown accuracy31%
Takedown defence31%
Sub attempts / 15 min1.20

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Heavyweight field — not against the whole roster. Tap any i for what a score measures.

FightIQ's read — derived from the tape
Our read — derived, not official stats. Ranked within Heavyweight.
Striking72
Defence72
Grappling / TD48
Cardio46
Chin50
Fight IQ58

Strike zones

Strike zones

Fabricio Werdum

Where the strikes go — and where they land on him. Career UFC totals, straight off the tape.

HEAD63.8%ACC 47%BODY19.0%ACC 79%LEGS17.2%ACC 93%
FightIQ read Balanced attack 64% head / 19% body / 17% legs — no single target dominates.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
63.8% acc 47%−3.0 vs field
BODY
19.0% acc 79%+0.5 vs field
LEGS
17.2% acc 93%+2.5 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 76%CLINCH 13%GROUND 12%

Significant strikes only, as recorded by UFCStats, across the fighter's whole UFC career. Shares are raw counts — nothing here is modelled or smoothed. Accuracy is landed ÷ attempted and comes from the per-round tape, which covers slightly fewer fights than the totals do. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average.

18 UFC fights · 890 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Fabricio Werdum

The level change — how often it lands, how often it is stopped. Career UFC rates, straight off the tape.

1.75takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 1.75 landed per 15 minutes — −0.64 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS55
1.75 / 15m−0.64 vs field
ATTEMPTS70
5.65 / 15m+0.63 vs field
ACCURACY21
31%−20pp vs field
SUB ATT68
1.20 / 15m−0.45 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.77 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Career UFC takedown rates exactly as UFCStats publishes them: takedowns landed per 15 minutes, completion rate, submission attempts per 15 minutes, and the share of takedowns tried on them that they stuffed. Attempts per 15 is the one derived figure — landed ÷ completion rate — and it is omitted wherever either input is missing. UFCStats writes 0% where no attempt was recorded at all, so a percentage of exactly zero reads “n/a” here rather than as a measured rate. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average.

Ranked in Heavyweight

Recent form

Pro record: 24-9-1. In the UFC: 12-6. Fabricio Werdum’s last 8 UFC bouts, most recent first — the result in the cage, not our pick.

Straight off the official UFC fight record. Card names are left off on purpose: the only event labels in our data are derived, and we’d rather print nothing than print one that’s wrong.

Full UFC career — 18 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2020-07-25WAlexander GustafssonSubmissionR1UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. Till
2020-05-09LAleksei OleinikDecision (split)R3UFC 249: Ferguson vs. Gaethje
2018-03-17LAlexander VolkovKO/TKOR4UFC Fight Night: Werdum vs. Volkov
2017-11-18WMarcin TyburaDecision (unanimous)R5UFC Fight Night: Werdum vs. Tybura
2017-10-07WWalt HarrisSubmissionR1UFC 216: Ferguson vs. Lee
2017-07-08LAlistair OvereemDecision (majority)R3UFC 213: Romero vs. Whittaker
2016-09-10WTravis BrowneDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 203: Miocic vs. Overeem
2016-05-14LStipe MiocicKO/TKOR1UFC 198: Werdum vs Miocic
2015-06-13WCain VelasquezSubmissionR3UFC 188: Velasquez vs Werdum
2014-11-15WMark HuntKO/TKOR2UFC 180: Werdum vs Hunt
2014-04-19WTravis BrowneDecision (unanimous)R5UFC on FOX: Werdum vs Browne
2013-06-08WAntonio Rodrigo NogueiraSubmissionR2UFC on FUEL TV: Nogueira vs. Werdum
2012-06-23WMike RussowKO/TKOR1UFC 147: Silva vs Franklin 2
2012-02-04WRoy NelsonDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 143: Diaz vs Condit
2008-10-25LJunior Dos SantosKO/TKOR1UFC 90: Silva vs Cote
2008-06-07WBrandon VeraKO/TKOR1UFC 85: Bedlam
2008-01-19WGabriel GonzagaKO/TKOR2UFC 80: Rapid Fire
2007-04-21LAndrei ArlovskiDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 70: Nations Collide

Every date links to that bout’s own page. Card names come from the official event record; where the UFC ran two cards on one date, or that record has no row for it, the Event column is left empty rather than filled with a guess.

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