Yesterday I learned how to say 'Can I have a hamburger?' in Russian, but I instantly forgot it. I have the attention span of a warm jar of mayonnaise. The purpose of temporarily learning a new language was solely to impress a waitress that works at a Russian fast-food place here in Hollywood. However, due to my inability to retain newly acquired information, I asked how many 'Emelianenkos' she knew in her home country. Yes, that was my ice breaker.

Brazil's UOL broke the news today that Anderson Silva will be the new face of Burger King and will attend a variety of promotional events leading up to and after his UFC: Rio bout with Yushin Okami. 9ine, a promotional company owned by ex-Brazil soccer player Ronaldo (or 'footballer' for everyone in the world not living on the North American continent), signed Anderson Silva to the campaign this week. A representative for Burger King had this to say about the seemingly historic signing.

"Anderson has a great identity with the brand, is an idol of many audiences, especially young people, our main customers. We believe he has much to contribute to make the new campaign more fun and impactful."

It's going to be hard not imagining Anderson Silva in a commercial where he's getting dominated by a Triple Whopper with cheese only to devour it in the fifth round. Where's your BK Big Fish at now, playboy? [Source]

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+5 # Cheebo 2011-07-27 15:09

I can imagine it now: Silva dancing around the burger for the duration of the add, cause he doesn't wanna make the first move..

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+14 # KidShowtime 2011-07-27 16:05

What the fuck Anderson? You forget about your love for the Big Mac?

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-6 # Guest 2011-07-27 17:34

Haha...that was my first thought as well (without the F-bomb though)! :)

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+12 # KidShowtime 2011-07-27 18:58

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+3 # Jonesy 2011-07-27 20:19

Yeah dude didn't he say something in one of the countdown specials about sneaking in big macs during his weight cut?

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+1 # KidShowtime 2011-07-28 09:09

Quoting Jonesy:

Yeah dude didn't he say something in one of the countdown specials about sneaking in big macs during his weight cut?

I think it was during UFC All Access where he said that after weigh ins, the night before the fight, he'd eat two big macs because he 'used to work there'.

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+6 # Guest 2011-07-27 17:12

the spider FINALLY getting at least 1/4 of the recognition he deserves.. congrats Mr. Anderson a.k.a "The one" and only.. always imitated(im lookin at u jon bones) but never duplicated....

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0 # Guest 2011-07-27 17:35

And why is Anderson a white guy in this illustration??

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+3 # Guest 2011-07-28 00:06

if anyone's seen ronaldo recently he's clearly been working far too closely with burger king

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0 # Guest 2011-07-28 04:09

Any irony in the fact that he used to work for McDonalds?

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