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By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief
Anderson Silva caused a stir last week during a media teleconference for UFC 148, as he lambasted his opponent Chael Sonnen with a series of heated comments and responses to the questions on the call. However, the full impact of the tirade couldn't be fully appreciated for the non-Portuguese-speaking members of the call, and Ed Soares' translation attempts didn't get everything out.
Thankfully, Fernando Kallas, Brazilian reporter for Portal Do Vale Tudo, translated and transcribed the comments made by Silva during the call. We've had a few of the responses translated in the last week, but here's his full translation of everything Silva said on the call regarding Sonnen and their fight this Saturday night in Las Vegas:
"This dude is a criminal! He's the scum of our sport. This dude doesn't deserve to be in the UFC. He he's a guy who had problems with the law in America. A guy who got caught on doping. A guy that doesn't respect anything. This dude is an imbecile! And on the 7th of July I'm gonna break his entire face and all his teeth. I'm gonna rip all his teeth out of his mouth.
Listen, who lives out from the past are museums. I don't live in the past. I'm gonna beat him again. There is not much to talk. I'm going to give him a beating! He's listening, the time for the child to play is over. It doesn't matter if he keeps saying silly things and whatever else he wants to say now. Talk is over. We are getting closer to the the time of truth. And I'm not hurt, I'm 100%… I'm gonna break his face! I'm gonna expel him from the UFC! He's gonna have a beating like he never had in his life. I'm gonna beat him so he can learn some matters. I'm gonna give him the beating that his mummy and daddy should have gave him when he was a kid so he can learn some matters. Learn to respect other people and other countries!
Listen, from the bottom, the top, the side, on our feet… I'm going to beat him again. This time he's gonna get beat up! Beat up! The small talk is over. When we get inside the cage, he's gonna swallow everyone of his teeth. I'm gonna rip tooth from tooth from his mouth. Everyone of them! After I finish, a lot of people are going to be scared about the path that our sport is going to take. I'm dedicated, focus, prepared and, most of all, on a mission to make something that anybody did before at the UFC: break every single bone of Sonnen's body. He's gonna walk out with his face broken, arms broken, legs broken. I'm gonna break him up entirely. He's listening. He's gonna get his ass kicked. He's gonna get a beatdown. He'll need a stretcher to get out from the Octagon!
He didn't affect me on my personal life. It's all business. It's professional fighting and I'm gonna get his ass kicked and give him a beatdown anyway. He's gonna learn to respect Brazil, our fighters and the people that made and developed the sport that he practice. And forget about his wrestling. I'm gonna beat him up! Beat him up! I'm gonna break him up! This guy is a thug, a bum, a punk and I'm gonna give him a beating like he never got in his life. I'm gonna beat him because his mother never beat him. Never educated him.
So I'm gonna beat him up, I'm gonna rip his teeth off, I'm gonna break his arms and his legs. This dude will never talk trash about another fighter. I'm gonna break him up! You guys are not understanding what I'm saying, please pay attention, I'm serious, you guys can't imagine what is going to happen. The time for playing is over! No more playing around! No more mister nice guy. He is going to be beat up! No more talk. Now is time for ass kicking! For brawling! He never had his ass kicked like I'm gonna do.
It won't be much different from the last fight. Last time he lost. Now, he's going to lose and he'll leave the cage all broken up. He'll need plastic surgery!
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Jamie Penick, editor-in-chief
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