What they are interested in is what comes on after midnight ( which is the 'watershed' time for Brazilian tv) and thats cage fighting.
When the band stopped playing in our local the other Saturday and everybody turned to the tv's we thought we would be seeing some sort of news flash or something. Instead we got half an hour of 2 blokes knocking shit out of each other while the whole bar erupted in support.
I've seen cage fighting on TV in the uk before but its a whole different ball game over here. Nobody seems bothered bout blood getting spilled and its seems to go on until one blokes really had enough. The camera angle switches between the ring; mothers and grandmothers sat at the ring side holding their hands up to their faces in shock, to the trainers who all look like they were the original combatants in the film Gladiator.
They show training sessions of 12-15 year old kids in between the bouts. The kids are all padded up and they are sparing with a grown up. They dance around for about 5mins and the kid goes in and out trying to get a hit or two, then, as though the adult is think 'i'm bored with this' he lets go with a full force punch or kick that sends the kid flying across the ring, and usually, out for the count. This is supposed to get them use it apparently. You can understand why some people see it as a way to escape out of the gutter but at what cost. Not for me.