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					<description><![CDATA[<p>First off, respect. Plenty of it. Luis Fernando Verissimo, 75, is the Anderson Silva of Brazilian chroniclers, a role he has performed since 1969. His writing starts out thin like Anderson&#8217;s voice, and invariably ends with a resounding knee—a move one of his characters, the Analyst of Bagé, once used. In his column from the&#8230;</p>
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<p>First off, respect. Plenty of it.</p>
<p>Luis Fernando Verissimo, 75, is the Anderson Silva of Brazilian chroniclers, a role he has performed since 1969. His writing starts out thin like Anderson&#8217;s voice, and invariably ends with a resounding knee—a move one of his characters, the Analyst of Bagé, once used.</p>
<p>In his column from the day before yesterday, published in every major newspaper in Brazil, Verissimo was again in fine form. The target, however, was MMA.</p>
<p>A point of view is like a belly button, everybody has one. But Verissimo&#8217;s description of two fighters on the octagon floor is amusing; “like a creature with two torsos and eight legs suffering convulsions,” are the words he used.</p>
<p>The best-selling writer is no layman when it comes to martial arts, in absolute terms. He told us one time that he would watch MMA fights late night during the days of Pride FC out of curiosity, like everyone did. He wrote about Mike Tyson and Muhammad Ali on a number of occasions, and on one of them he tried buying tickets, unsuccessfully, to witness the boxing legend&#8217;s farewell bout, back in 1980.</p>
<p>“Perhaps it was for the best. Ali&#8217;s final fight was a melancholic affair. He could have avoided it. But he believed in his own magic and thought he could pull it off,” Verissimo wrote on the occasion, adding, “But the man will live on in the history of the United States, not just in that of the sport. He was an active participant in a number of revolutions, like the one that gave African Americans new perspectives, as well as the one that ended American involvement in Vietnam. He was always a fascinating mixture of jester and superman.”</p>
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<p>Anyone puzzled by the success fist-fighting has seen on TV perhaps isn&#8217;t aware of how the first sporting event ever filmed, in human history, was a fight. Another point for boxing. Nearly a century thereafter, though, MMA on TV is still getting battered and bruised.</p>
<p>The fact is that a lot of good folk like MMA. And a lot of good folk detest it. A lot of them still don&#8217;t quite get what&#8217;s going on when the fight hits the ground. Nothing out of the ordinary, it&#8217;s just a new sport, one consolidated in 1993. And yes, it is brutal. But describing MMA as “just violence in its purest form,” as Verissimo did, seems to be a bit overboard. That&#8217;s kind of like watching a skier jump a ramp on TV during the Winter Games and saying, “That&#8217;s just a lunatic launching himself into the abyss.” There&#8217;s technique, there&#8217;s training, there&#8217;s a healthy dose of courage, and there&#8217;s even a bit of lunacy. Nothing too out of the ordinary.</p>
<p>Often, someone who doesn&#8217;t practice martial arts doesn&#8217;t comprehend that sporting a gi, shadowboxing or trying to take an opponent down, whether through brute force or intelligence, is as edifying and invigorating a pleasure as taking a walk on the beach, swimming in the ocean or chasing after a ball.</p>
<p>Be it what it may, there is a superb lesson and perhaps even a certain contribution to the sport at one point in Verissimo&#8217;s musing:</p>
<p>“ … [MMA] is pro-wrestling stripped of its costume, with real blood. There&#8217;s no good guy or bad guy, just two fighting machines fighting.”</p>
<p>That said, could there be a lot of good people thumbing their noses at MMA because they see the athletes as being merely machines? For not knowing their backgrounds, what they&#8217;re thinking, and what they&#8217;re trying to prove with that victory?</p>
<p>Of the Jiu-Jitsu black belts in MMA, Forrest Griffin once worked as a policeman. Minotauro, having been run over by a truck in his youth, is walking inspiration for those who are going through hard times. Wanderlei, who helped his father work the bar, has a lot to teach us. Renzo, one of the pioneers, reads James Joyce between bouts. Toquinho&#8217;s training was taking down cattle, and he slept under an overpass before starting at BTT. Demian, who&#8217;s fight today in the UFC will air on Fox network in the USA, nearly became a journalist, and he may well have even dreamed of being someone like Verissimo.</p>
<p>As you can see, the sport has its own “supermen,” besides its pranksters, and all of them are fascinating. Maybe that&#8217;s what&#8217;s missing from the UFC, especially on the big screens during the show. Maybe they&#8217;re not showcasing enough, or are too brisk in showing, the human side of the artists in the spectacle, for the accidental spectator to see. Who&#8217;s the villain in that fight? Who&#8217;s the guy going to root for? That was something that Pride FC did masterfully.</p>
<p>In the end, more drama and less blood wouldn&#8217;t do anyone a bit of harm, nor perhaps getting rid of elbows on the ground.</p>
<p>The one saying so isn&#8217;t even us, it&#8217;s the expert Verissimo, that fan of Ali, Tyson, and one day maybe even of the stars of the UFC.</p>
<div id="attachment_54252" style="width: 566px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-54252" class="size-full wp-image-54252 " title="Verissimo with a copy of GRACIEMAG in hand: the master was always clued in to fighting. Photo: Raphael Nogueira." src="https://www.graciemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/VerissimoUFC.jpg" alt="Verissimo with a copy of GRACIEMAG in hand: the master was always clued in to fighting. Photo: Raphael Nogueira." width="556" height="640" /><p id="caption-attachment-54252" class="wp-caption-text">Verissimo with a copy of GRACIEMAG in hand: the master was always clued in to fighting. Photo: Raphael Nogueira.</p></div>The post <a href="https://www.graciemag.com/brazilian-writer-verissimos-opinion-on-mma-jiu-jitsu-and-whats-missing-from-the-ufc/">Brazilian writer Verissimo’s opinion on MMA, Jiu-Jitsu and what’s missing from the UFC</a> first appeared on <a href="https://www.graciemag.com">Graciemag</a>.]]></content:encoded>
					
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Em primeiro lugar, respeito. Alto lá. Luis Fernando Verissimo, 75 anos, é o Anderson Silva dos cronistas brasileiros, ofício que exerce desde 1969. Seus textos começam finos como a voz de Anderson, e terminam invariavelmente num joelhaço – para ficar num golpe de um personagem seu, o Analista de Bagé. Na coluna de ontem, publicada&#8230;</p>
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<p>Em primeiro lugar, respeito. Alto lá.</p>
<p>Luis Fernando Verissimo, 75 anos, é o Anderson Silva dos cronistas brasileiros, ofício que exerce desde 1969. Seus textos começam finos como a voz de Anderson, e terminam invariavelmente num joelhaço – para ficar num golpe de um personagem seu, o <a title="O conto &quot;O Analista de Bagé&quot;, com o personagem de Verissimo" href="http://www.releituras.com/lfverissimo_analista.asp" target="_blank">Analista de Bagé</a>.</p>
<p>Na coluna de ontem, publicada nos maiores jornais do país, Verissimo comprovou a boa forma. O alvo, porém, foi o MMA. (<a title="A crônica de Luis Fernando Verissimo sobre o sucesso do UFC, para ele esporte de gosto duvidoso" href="http://www.advivo.com.br/blog/luisnassif/saudade-do-ted-boy-marino-por-verissimo" target="_blank">Leia o texto na íntegra, aqui</a>).</p>
<p>Ponto de vista é feito umbigo, cada um tem o seu. Mas é divertida a descrição de Verissimo de dois lutadores no chão do octagon, “como um bicho de duas costas e oito patas em convulsão”, nas palavras do mestre.</p>
<p>Escritor best-seller, LFV não é um leigo em lutas, em absoluto. Ele já nos disse, certa vez, que assistia às lutas de MMA do Pride, na madrugada, de curiosidade, como todo mundo. Escreveu sobre Mike Tyson e <a title="Página do setentão Muhammad Ali na internet" href="http://www.ali.com/" target="_blank">Muhammad Ali</a> diversas vezes, e numa destas contou que tentou comprar ingresso, sem sucesso, para ver a despedida do mito do boxe, em 1980.</p>
<p>“Talvez tenha sido melhor assim. Ali despediu-se do ringue melancolicamente. Podia ter evitado isto. Mas acreditou na sua própria mágica e achou que conseguiria voltar&#8221;, escreveu na ocasião, quando completou: &#8220;Mas o homem ficará na história dos Estados Unidos, e não apenas na sua história esportiva. Foi protagonista ativo de algumas revoluções, como a que deu uma nova perspectiva ao negro americano e a que acabou com a intervenção no Vietnã. Foi sempre uma mistura fascinante de palhaço e super-homem”.</p>
<div id="attachment_54251" style="width: 597px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-54251" class="size-full wp-image-54251" title="O escritor gaúcho Luis Fernando Verissimo: UFC, sangue e violência vazia. Foto: Divulgação." src="https://www.graciemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/LFV.jpg" alt="O escritor gaúcho Luis Fernando Verissimo: UFC, sangue e violência vazia. Foto: Divulgação." width="587" height="640" /><p id="caption-attachment-54251" class="wp-caption-text">O escritor gaúcho Luis Fernando Verissimo: sangue e violência pura no UFC. Foto: Divulgação.</p></div>
<p>Quem ainda hoje estranha o sucesso da troca de bordoadas na TV talvez não saiba que o primeiro evento esportivo a ser filmado, na história da humanidade, foi uma luta. Mais um ponto para o boxe. Quase um século depois disso, porém, o MMA na TV segue levando suas pancadinhas.</p>
<p>O fato é que muita gente boa gosta de MMA. E muita gente boa detesta. Muitos ainda não entendem direito quando a luta vai ao chão. Normal, trata-se de um esporte novo, consolidado em <a title="UFC 1 na Wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFC_1" target="_blank">1993</a>. E é bruto, sim. Mas apontar o MMA como “apenas a violência em estado puro”, como Verissimo escreveu, parece exagerado. É algo como ver na TV um esquiador saltando de uma rampa, nos Jogos de Inverno, e dizer que trata-se apenas de um maluco se atirando num abismo. Tem técnica, tem treino, tem boas doses de coragem, e até um pouco de maluquice. Normal.</p>
<p>Muitas vezes, quem não pratica artes marciais não compreende que vestir um kimono, trocar golpes com sua sombra ou tentar derrubar um oponente, seja pela força ou pela inteligência, é um prazer edificante e revigorante como andar na praia, nadar no mar ou correr atrás de uma bola.</p>
<p>Seja como for, há uma bela lição e talvez até uma contribuição ao esporte num certo trecho do texto de Verissimo:</p>
<p>“&#8230;[O MMA] é o ‘catch’ despido da fantasia, com sangue de verdade. Não há mais mocinho e vilão, apenas duas máquinas de brigar, brigando”.</p>
<p>Dando um desconto, será que muita gente boa torce ainda mais o nariz para o MMA por ver os atletas como simples máquinas? Por desconhecer a história de vida, o que pensam, e o que querem provar com mais aquela vitória?</p>
<p>Entre os faixas-pretas de Jiu-Jitsu, Forrest Griffin era um policial. Minotauro, o baiano atropelado por um caminhão, é uma inspiração ambulante para quem passa dificuldades. <a title="Página da internet do lutador e professor Wanderlei Silva, do UFC" href="http://www.wandfightteam.com/" target="_blank">Wanderlei</a>, que ajudava o pai no balcão, tem muito a nos ensinar. Renzo, um dos pioneiros, lê James Joyce entre uma briga e outra. Toquinho treinava derrubando bezerros e dormiu embaixo do viaduto do Rebouças antes de treinar na BTT. <a title="Twitter do lutador e faixa-preta de Jiu-Jitsu Demian Maia, do UFC" href="http://twitter.com/demianmaia" target="_blank">Demian</a>, que luta neste sábado no canal Fox nos EUA, quase foi jornalista, e talvez sonhasse em ser alguém como Verissimo.</p>
<p>Como se vê, o esporte também tem seus “super-homens”, além dos palhaços, todos fascinantes. Pode ser esta uma carência do UFC, em especial nos telões durante o show. O evento talvez esteja divulgando pouco, ou de forma apressada, o lado humano dos artistas do espetáculo para o espectador acidental. Quem é o vilão naquela luta? Para quem o cara vai querer torcer? Algo que o Pride japonês fazia com maestria.</p>
<p>Enfim, mais drama e menos sangue não fariam mal a ninguém, quem sabe com a exclusão da cotovelada no chão.</p>
<p>Quem está dizendo isso nem somos nós, é o expert Verissimo, fã de Ali, Tyson e quem sabe um dia, dos astros do UFC.</p>
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