Talking about Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira is not something that is easy for me to do, mainly because it is impossible for me as a journalist to give a professional opinion about him. As coincidence would have it, he nearly became a close family member of mine prior to becoming a vale tudo fighter.
Everything started in 1997, when my sister went to the famous Carnival of Salvador, where she was introduced to Antonio Rogerio Nogueira. They fell in love, and Rogerio moved from Salvador to Rio de Janeiro to enroll in law school. My father once worked as an attorney, and helped set up Rogerio with his studies and even secured a trainee job for him at his firm.