MMAWeekly is reporting that Fabricio Werdum's heavyweight bout is back on for August 15th against MMA badboy Mike Kyle:

After several initial reports, including one on MMAWeekly.com, that Fabricio Werdum had been removed from the Strikeforce "Carano vs. Cyborg" fight card, MMAWeekly.com has now confirmed that he will participate on the Aug. 15 event.

"We’ve agreed to fight Mike (Kyle). As I sit hear speaking to you, that’s the fight," Werdum’s manager, Richard Wilner, told MMAWeekly.com early Monday afternoon. Wilner said he even confirmed with Strikeforce CEO Scott Coker that the fight was on after seeing several online reports to the contrary.

"The only question that remains is whether or not it will be on the televised or untelevised portion of card. I don’t know if maybe they make it a swing bout," said Wilner. "I’m leaning towards the untelevized portion."

As many fans recall, Werdum was set to take on the newly-powerful heavyweight behemoth Alistair Overeem, but Overeem's hand was injured in an altercation at a nightclub. Werdum's replacement was rumored to potentially be Fedor Emelianenko when Affliction lost their main event headliner in Josh Barnett due to a positive steroid test, but that fight would have happened at Affliction: Trilogy. Instead, the event was cancelled, and Fedor Emelianenko has been announced as signing with Strikeforce.

Werdum is currently 11-4 with his last fight coming at UFC 90 against Junior Dos Santos that saw Werdum on the end of a massive right uppercut that put him out of the UFC. He hasn't fought since that bout. Mike Kyle is currently 12-6, coming off an upset victory over Rafael Calvancante at Strikeforce: Lawler vs. Shields. Kyle was suspended indefinitely by the CSAC for illegally kneeing Brian Olsen back at WEC 20 in May of 2006, but has bounced back after a two year layoff from the suspension with a 3-1 record in his last four fights.