UFC Champ and all-around badass Anderson Silva celebrated the Easter holiday with Joao Pedro, a 12-year old Brazilian boy suffering from a condition that left him wheelchair bound. The meeting was arranged after the boy asked for Silva’s autograph. As you’ll see from the video, he got much, much more.
MMA Mania provides the Portuguese to English translation:
“What’s up, brother? Don’t cry, come here and give me a hug. Don’t cry, is everything fine? You want to get well soon! Give me a hug, give me a hug, a really strong one. Let’s get well, let’s get well. Let’s take a picture. Look what I brought for you, signed glove, this is for you. Look, let me tell you something. You’re going to have to do something really important for all of us. Give all you got. Give 100 percent effort so you can get well really quick because Minotauro also had the same problem and he’s fighting again, you know what I mean? So you got to give it all you got, ok? I talked to the doctor to talk to Dr. Angela, who was taking care of Minotauro, so she can help you out also so you can go back to training as soon as possible, okay?”
Well, dammit, that warms my cold heart. If you weren’t an Anderson Silva fan before, you are now.