UFC 196 is a mess. You're probably aware that Fabricio Werdum isn't defending his UFC heavyweight title against anyone on the card now. It has also been moved off of PPV and onto Fox Sports 1 due to the loss of a headliner. A lot of blame has been thrown in Werdum's direction for his statement that he would have stayed on the card to fight Cain Velasquez, but not to fight Stipe Miocic. Miocic's manager had some words for Werdum yesterday, and it seems that Werdum decided to take to social media to respond today.
Burn. Miocic was quick to respond though:
Then it got silly:
Miocic also cleared up some rumors that he was offered a heavyweight title fight with Jon Jones in the UFC 196 headliner, but turned it down:
So while we're getting some decent humor out of the deal, we still won't have a HW fight. Johny Hendricks vs. Stephen Thompson will headline FS1 196 on February 6th.