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Found April 28, 2012 on For The Record Sports:
PLAYERS: Anderson Silva

Anderson Silva recently released an autobiography in Brazil titled 'Fighters Only' in which he tells everything about his life from childhood through the present day, and even admits to almost shooting his trainer, Rafael Cordeiro, with a shotgun after an altercation while training in Rio before he became a superstar.

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