Fabrizio Werdum ruffled some feathers last year when he posted a picture of himself photoshopped into Nike gear last year.
But getting suspended from his job as color commentator for the Spanish language UFC broadcast appears to have gotten to him hard. So hard he’s ready to declare the whole thing a joke misunderstood.
“You know me, I’m like Nate Diaz, maybe more,” said Werdum, as transcribed by MMA Fighting. “I joke a lot and I don’t think the UFC understands my joking. I have a lot of fans, and one made the thing where he took off the Reebok and put Nike and I just reposted it, just a repost. The UFC doesn’t understand it’s a joke, they don’t understand. I want to come back to my job at UFC network. I love it, it’s my passion. I have a lot of people asking me, ‘Hey, Werdum, when are you going to come back again?’ and I say, ‘I’m just waiting for the boss to say, ‘it’s okay, your time off is done now.’
“I want to go maybe next week to Las Vegas to talk with Dana White about everything. I have a lot of jokes in my Instagram and social media, I joke a lot, and Dana doesn’t understand me, maybe the joking is different in Brazil than in America. So I want to go there and talk to him, maybe joke with him and post too, you know.
“I’ve worked for the UFC a long time, and I’ve been an ambassador for Latin America, I’ve done a lot of good jobs in Mexico, work a lot for the Latin American fans. So I just want to go there, sit down, have a coffee, and be like, ‘Hey, Dana, I’m 100 percent with the UFC, you know this.’ So yeah, just sit and talk is very important.”
