Soccer was the passion of Brazil, UFC taking over

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"They said that soccer was the passion of our people, but the UFC is taking over. So I'm so glad to be a part of the past, the present, and the future. And in the future, the UFC is going to be mainstream everywhere.


Because UFC, Dana White, Lorenzo and the whole crew, bring the best, inside the Octagon and outside.


"We always care about the fans. We deliver the product. But also we love them, we share with them everything, the experience. That's what this trip is about,"


"This has become a style of life ... UFC. I'm excited about today ... tomorrow only comes if you do good things about today ... today is all I have."


 

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kent paul - Vitor is talking out of his backside again, because you could take any Brazilian fighter, Big Nog, Wand, Anderson, Vitor or any member of the Gracie clan and have them walk down the main high street in Rio and i bet that 99% of the general public would not know who they are, yet if Neymar did the same there would be a riot

! Phone Post

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I think Anderson must have really shook him up with that kick... Phone Post

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I don't think a Brazilian fighter making that statement has a lot of merit.

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kent paul - Vitor is talking out of his backside again, because you could take any Brazilian fighter, Big Nog, Wand, Anderson, Vitor or any member of the Gracie clan and have them walk down the main high street in Rio and i bet that 99% of the general public would not know who they are, yet if Neymar did the same there would be a riot



Ummm Anderson is HUGE in Brazil now. Where have you been?

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Absolutely no way, not even close.

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So vitor keeps saying. I think he means mma not ufc. Silly noob. Phone Post

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Jons Forsberg - only a fool can believe MMA is capable of surpassing soccer in Brazil or worldwide. Soccer fans are bonded with their home teams in ways that they'd never relate to an individual athlete, there is simply no way around this. You can't simply offer a more exciting sport and expect people to jump ship.


 this

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Jons Forsberg - ^ Anderson's nothing next to Neymar, Ganso or any other soccer star from Brazil.

Pato Pato Phone Post

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 Brazilians will love it but it will never replace soccer lol!

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Spoken like a true company man.



Does the UFC have mandatory hyperbole seminars?

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 It's just a natural progression. I mean, heck, here in the US, the UFC has surpassed the NFL in the hearts and minds our our people. 

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kingwank -  It's just a natural progression. I mean, heck, here in the US, the UFC has surpassed the NFL in the hearts and minds our our people. 


 lol!

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From an american living in brazil: Tt's hard to get my toxoplasma ridden friends to concentrate on fighting, but when they do it's game over...this is the perfect sport for a country that has had nothing but fighters and soccer players since Frank Senatra and the gang.

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Lets see MMA fill dozens of stadiums with 50.000-90.000 capacity weekly all over the world then we´ll start comparing it to soccer lol

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takes every word vitor says literally

-the ug

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Jons Forsberg - 
jacktripper - takes every word vitor says literally

-the ug


So the UFC is taking over soccer in Brazil, figuratively. That makes sense...


congratulations youre quite the grammar queen

dont let me stop you though, lets hang on and ridicule every word he said in a second language and completely ignore the point hes trying to make

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We know the UFC gives fighters money for trying to be stand up comedians on twitter. Odds they also give money for dropping ridiculous hyperbole too?

Either that, or getting punched in the head for a living finally took its toll on Vitor.

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kent paul - Vitor is talking out of his backside again, because you could take any Brazilian fighter, Big Nog, Wand, Anderson, Vitor or any member of the Gracie clan and have them walk down the main high street in Rio and i bet that 99% of the general public would not know who they are, yet if Neymar did the same there would be a riot

this Phone Post

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Anyone who thinks the UFC will come close to soccer in Brazil or anywhere else apart from a couple of countries worldwide needs to travel a little bit.

The UFC like to talk about how this figher or that fighter is a superstar back home. Usually that is far from the case, more often they are totally unknown back home unfortunately.