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If it wasn't for martial arts, Thiago Silva probably wouldn't be alive t...
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- Nov 29, 2017
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Thiago Silva endured a hellish childhood in the notoriously violent favela slums of Sao Paolo, Brazil. He says most of his friends are "now dead or in jail" and that martial arts is what saved him from that same fate.