"It wasn't that he beat [Nogueira]," Dos Santos told SI.com via a translator. "It was that he talked a lot of trash after that fight, saying things that the Brazilian fans considered very disrespectful. I didn't really want to put myself in a situation that was going to be doing a public appearance with Frank where I knew we were going to be laughing and having a good time. Something like video games is just more of like a hangout scenario, and I thought it might be taken the wrong way by the Brazilian fans."
(Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/writers/ben_fowlkes/05/17/mir.dos.santos/index.html#ixzz1vZBWL1bc )
(Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/writers/ben_fowlkes/05/17/mir.dos.santos/index.html#ixzz1vZBWL1bc )
Frank's reaction was:
"I think it's just the Brazilians being nationalistic, and the fact of an American beating a Brazilian at jiu-jitsu, and one of the legends of jiu-jitsu at that. I think that's the part that stings. I guess I hadn't realized that the Brazilians were so nationalistic. I didn't realize it mattered so much that I beat Nogueira, a Brazilian, and I'm an American."
Look at the Frank's T-Shirt from yesterday's promo shot
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