UFC fighter, family robbed at gunpoint in Brazil

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    speeds $2.50 highball, $1.50 beer Staff Member Administrator GFX Team

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    Chris "The Professor" Wilson was robbed while training in Brazil.

    http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Fighting/UFC/2009/05/14/9461606-cp.html
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    The population of Rio is nearly 8-million and a large portion of the inhabitants live in poverty. It has high crime rates, especially with regards to murder, and insufficient police presence. In some cases the police are more dangerous than the thugs.

    It might be easy to forget that with all of the fighters coming out of Brazil, or going to train in Brazil, that it isn't like America. Brazil has the worst economic inequality in the world, though the country seems to be improving itself.
     
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    That is scary. Hopefully he can fight without this weighing too heavy on his mind.
     
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    Damn, driving out to some place nowhere in Brazil with 5 guys with guns. He probably thought he was a dead man.
     
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    thank gawd he's alive to tell his story. I'll be rooting for him but he's in tough with Larson.
     
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