Brazilian Fans FURIOUS at Anderson Silva!

I got this off the forum at Sherdog, and I was wondering what he was saying. I don't speak portuguese, but am trying to learn. (I'm seeing a 35 year old Brazilian woman. :good) But, according to this and some friends that I have that are from Brazil and obviously speak portuguese, once I had what he said and I said it to them, they immediately asked me, "Where did you learn that?" So, it's really bad.

http://www.fightersonlymagazine.co.uk/news/viewarticle.php?id=4281

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11/04/10 - Anderson facing backlash from Brazilian fans for Maia slurs

Anderson Silva is facing a backlash from fans in his native Brazil after ringside microphones for the UFC 112 broadcast of his fight with Demian Maia apparently picked up Silva taunting his opponent in Portuguese, using terms which are considered very offensive in Brazil.

Portuguese-language MMA forums have been abuzz with discussion over the insults Silva levelled at Maia at points in the fight. The end of the second round is when he is said to have been most offensive, allegedly telling Maia "Bate na minha cara playboy" (“Come on, hit me in the face playboy.")

Odd as it sounds, ‘playboy’ is a serious insult in Brazil when levelled at certain targets. The stark class and economic divides in Brazil make for a wide gulf in status between the rich and poor. In Brazilian terms, a playboy is a hedonist rich kid, the product of a pampered upbringing who cares little for the poor and knows nothing of real life.

Anderson is also said to have cried out "Cade o Jiu-Jitsu?" ("Where is your Jiu-Jitsu?”) as Maia failed to get him to the floor, and also told him “Get up off your ass and get hit some more” when Maia dropped to his back looking to play guard.

According to the general tone on the major Brazilian MMA forums right now, Anderson has surprised and upset many of his fans with his comments. Maia told Fighters Only yesterday that Anderson had sworn at him during the fight but declined to go into detail about what was said.

That was a sporting and honourable thing for Maia to do but fans have already picked up on the comments are spreading them around the forums. So far this particular backlash has been confined to Brazilian fans but a poster named Gomes on Portal do Vale Tudo summed the feeling up:

“Wow, the guy went mad. American are usually super socially-conscious with this kind of discrimination, when they discover what he said, heads will fly. This guy has lost all notion of what you can do in a fight. This type of social/personal insult is the equivalent of ‘Iron’ Mike Tyson saying "I'll **** until you love me, *****!"
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This is really, really bad. I was one of the biggest Anderson Silva fans up until what I saw yesterday.

allegedly telling Maia "Bate na minha cara playboy" (“Come on, hit me in the face playboy.")

This would be the U.S. equivalent of me fighting a black fighter and saying, "Come on, hit me in the face ******!" While it may not have such a "hard" feeling to us in the States, those who grew up in the Brazilian culture (as have a few of my friends) it's equal to what I said above. Horribly, horribly bad. May or may not be racial, in a sense, or as direct a sense, but regardless, completely disgraceful and 50 other things that I could say but would probably get more pissed off about.

Just thought everyone should know. Because I didn't, and now am glad I did. I, for one, won't be supporting him anymore.

I said it in a previous thread, but as a practicioner of martial arts for almost 20 years and one who believes deeply in the teachings of traditional martial arts, I was beyond disgusted with what I saw displayed yesterday.

As a fan of MMA, I'm embarassed.

As a martial artist, I'm ashamed.

 

Wow! Reading the responses of the thread on Sherdog, I'm getting varied reactions, most of which are similar to mine, but one guy (or girl, but likely to be male) says:

"I am brazilian. I read about these insults and that really pissed me off more than I already was...

You guys should also know that Anderson's corner was screaming insults to Maia too and telling Anderson to KO that BJJ playboy...

I want Anderson to lose the few remaining fans he still has, although I am not sure I can convince ******ed people of anything... "

I'm done. As big a fight fan as I am, and as much as I realize that Silva is probably one of the most gifted fighters in modern history, frankly, I wouldn't be upset in the least if I never saw him fight again.

 

I'm trying to figure out what Nogueira must think of what Silva did.

Nogueira is the one who belted Silva in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and is Silva's mentor. Most importantly, he is even more on the traditions of martial arts then I am! I can only imagine what he must be thinking!

Part of me thinks that he's simply going to talk to him and such, but another part of me hopes that he kicks Anderson's ass out of his gym. (At least for a couple days...)

Probably won't happen like the latter, and most likely the former, but I'd be very interested to hear what the Nogueira's have to say.

 

Right, I didn't say it was racial, I said in terms of how someone in the U.S. might perceive it, to give it the kind of "Umph" it has in Brazil, the parallel that is appropriate is the example I proposed in the OP.

It's clearly not racial, but social. But still has the same kind of kick behind it.

And to clarify, if I was born in Brazil (equating it to how I was born in the U.S.), I would be far more like Silva then I am to Maia, however, regardless of that fact, I still find what Silva said and did beyond reproach.