Mixed Martial Arts in Brazil: Is Violence a Solution to Violence? – Sports

Whole neighborhoods used to get together in Rio for mass brawls. Today the bloodshed is channeled: in mixed martial arts. About trying to pacify Brazil’s favelas with hard martial arts of all things.

It’s not love when the two bodies push each other sweating and panting across the floor in an intimate embrace. It’s not hate either when one of them deliberately rams the front of his elbow into the other’s temple. It’s mixed martial arts. Short MMA.

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