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Werdum explains the origin of the happy face
Fabricio Werdum: “I wanted to make a face like that of the Joker. I always tried to do it, but it never came out right. So I ended up making the face you always see.”
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Chris Palmquist
New UFC heavyweight champion Fabricio Werdum is characteristically all smiles following his win over Cain Velasquez.
However, one of his smiles, The Happy Face, is not like the others.
That face comes from watching ‘Batman’ movies when I was a kid, said Werdum to Matt Erickson and Christian Stein for MMAjunkie. I wanted to make a face like that of the Joker. I always tried to do it, but it never came out right. So I ended up making the face you always see. We call it my ‘happy face.’ Everyone laughs about it. It’s definitely based on the Joker.
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