Luis Henrique When UFC heavyweight Luis Henrique was a 6-year-old growing up on the streets of Rio de Janeiro, he liked getting into fights. Martial-arts classes seemed like a logical step to curtail his antisocial habit, and he was eager to try them. But back then, jiu-jitsu didn’t have the glowing reputation it often does in retrospectives. “Jiu-jitsu had a ‘bad boy’ image,” Henrique told MMAjunkie. “My father didn’t want me involved in that. But my mother could see how badly I wanted to learn martial arts.” So, unbeknownst to Henrique’s father, his mother began sneaking him into judo classes
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After sneaking into jiu-jitsu class as kid, UFC’s Luis Henrique finds peace in fighting – MMA Junkie