Anderson Silva Talks About His UFC Action Figures - "I Love It"

thank you thank you thank you, yes, I love UFC, I love my fans, thank you thank you, yeah, I fight this, I fight my clone, I fight myself, thank you thank you.

you’re right, he can really communicate well in English… sure…

Who said he refuse to speak English to Joe?
Did you hear it before and then believed it? Or do you have a credible source?

There are some baseball players who use English as a second language that use their enterpreters a lot more then they have to, simply to avoid a PR disaster. Two good examples are Ichiro Suzuki and Vlad Guerrerro. It is well documented that both speak very, very good English (a lot better than say, Big Nog). But they both use their interpreters to simply avoid slipping up or having something lost in translation and then having everyone freak out. AS is smart for using his interpreter, even if he speaks perfect English (which is doubtful).

I’m a native English speaker living in a German speaking country. I spend much of my time speaking English, even though some might say my German is “excellent”. For me, it’s all about not wanting to sound like an idiot. And I can especially understand it when you’ve just finished fighting (I have experience with this). The last thing you’re thinking about at that moment is how to speak a foreign language correctly. So I have no problem with Anderson speaking Portuguese much of the time, even though he appears to have a solid command of the English language.