The WerdumFace.

If you haven't seen it, you haven't been on an MMA site in months, and if that's true, I wanna know how the heck you're reading this article. (Seriously. Telepathy? Braille computer monitor? How are you conjuring this magic? I mean, I JUST posted the image, like, one inch above. So obviously you're lying about never having seen it. Why would you do something like that? Are you just trying to be a jerk or what?)

Anyhoozers.

A lot of people have been throwing around theories concerning where the face came from—his strange sense of humor, the 4chan troll face, localized seizures or strokes—but I've finally pieced together the evidence to come to you with the truth:

Emotional trauma. And only one man is responsible...

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Me and my Ukrainian girlfriend (who loves MMA, thank-you-gawd-for-the-blessing-I-have-recieved) are desirin' of some Fedor ass kickery. Unfortunately, while the UFC has taken ahold of the bar scene here in the Chi, it's way harder to find places that show Strikeforce.

You would think, with the hype on the tournament, and the fact that our native Belarussian Arlovski is on the card (I used to see him walk his pitbull in the mornings. Dude was flossin)... Somebody has to be showingthis thing.

Any ideas?

At 1:35 of the second round, Le attempted a judo technique against Smith and only succeeded in moving Smith around for a few seconds. Mauro Ranallo, in his infinite wisdom, referred to it as "almost a judo-type throw, almost looked like a, uh, maybe an attempt at an uchi mata," pronouncing those last words uncomfortably.

Nope. Nice try. But instead of just yelling at my TV, I thought I could diagram the throw Cung DID attempt—my personal favorite—the Harai Goshi. I've also included an example of the throw done correctly.

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