Last month ex UFC fighter Thiago Silva was all over the news when he went to BJJ black belt Pablo Popovitch’s academy in Florida, armed with a gun. It is believed that Silva’s wife, Thaysa, trains under Pablo Popovitch. According to sources close to BJJ Eastern Europe, it appears that upon hearing of his wife’s relationship with her Jiu Jitsu coach, Pablo Popovich, the ex UFC light-heavyweight barged into their school gun-drawn, looking for Pablo.
Silva was eventually arrested and charged with two counts of attempted felony murder. The court later determined there was insufficient probable cause to levy the murder charges, as no shots were fired. Silva was instead charged with two counts of aggravated assault with a weapon, aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, and one count of resisting an officer without violence.
He was held for weeks, before finally being released on $25,000 bond.
Pablo Popovitch is now saying that Silva’s behavior was caused on by Popovitch’s ex-wife.
Thiago Silva and Thaysa
Via Facebook:
To all my friends and for those who know me:
What a struggle this has been for me. I worked so hard my whole life to build my gym, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Center, which I consider my home, my family. Recently it seems like the news, and my ex-wife (whom has become my worst nightmare), is destroying what my family and I took so long to achieve.
My marriage has been in turmoil for such a long time now, my wife, whom my whole my family always warned me about, and I never wanted to listen. I always gave her the best, and one day I realized after she helped me distance myself from my whole family, including my mom, who was always my best friend, and passed away 3 years ago, because of her inability to be a comprehensive person, and extremely selfish. One day I realized, that this person whom I had two children with, and lived almost 10 years of my life, never really loved me, never told me congratulations for one fight. Always seemed more interested in how much money I would make, and she could profit from, then us as a family. I don’t want to spill all of my personal life, and it’s not even the right thing to do, that’s why it took me so long to say anything. But at this point, the fact that she makes it seem like our marriage was so perfect, that she is such a perfect mom to our two boys, just makes me sick.
We have been living in different rooms for over a year now. While she slept in the master bedroom, I slept in the floor of an office. She filed for divorce in 2011, and we tried to reconcile. It didn’t work, again living with someone who was more interested in everything she had going on, than working on us. I met Thaisa, and we trained together for a while. I’m not saying that us ending up together was the right thing to do, but what is the right thing to do, try to work things out with someone who instead of helping us grow, and that I literally found out would pocket the money I’d give her for groceries, to leave our refrigerator always empty, so she can buy personal things. Who when we started having financial difficulties, and I asked to help out around the house by working, she would straight out tell me that she worked already too much, ONE HOUR A DAY in her bootcamp. When I told her she had talent, and she should also maybe become a personal trainer at a gym, she would make comments like “they only pay $35.00 an hour.”
Everything was settled for us, we made an agreement, we decided to get our own places. I waited till she found an apartment for her to live with my boys, paid for moving, the move in costs for the rental. Gave her the money we had agreed on that I would give her every month. I was taking my boys every other weekend, and seeing them twice a week. Everything was perfect. Then she started contacting Thiago Silva, sending him pictures and creating a bigger fire than it was on how long I have actually been with Thaisa. I guess she needed revenge for us not working out. When she found out that I was seeing Thaisa, she started calling my little sister, me and my brother-in –law, freaked out that she knew Thaisa’s ex-husband was crazy, and telling us to be careful. That if he found out, he would go insane. Later we found out, after he was arrested, that when the detective got ahold of his phone, it was Fabianna provoking everything. She would text me that she was scared of this guy, and right after text him egging him on to get pissed and come after me. I have evidence that the day Thiago Silva came to my gym, and threatened us. She sent a message to both my sister and brother in law scared for her life our families life because Thiago had threatened her and the family. The same day, at night he came to my gym with a gun, screaming out my name, and threating everyone at the school. Funny enough, last week, the mother of my kids, goes to court to defend this monster, that could have killed me, the father of her kids, or even her own kids, that were at the gym training jiu-jitsu just a few hours before. Why would she defend him, but yet try to scare the whole family that he could hurt anyone of us? What kind of games is she playing with this guy? What kind of mother is she? I don’t know who this person Fabianna is anymore. She jeopardizes everything, me seeing my boys, my business, our peace of spirit for her revenge.
The crazy part is, I couldn’t understand why this guy came to my gym, he has a girlfriend, has another girl in Brazil pregnant of 5 months, why the hate towards someone he is clearly not with anymore for some time? It’s all clear now, Fabianna drove him so much over the edge, exaggerating how long I have really been with Thaisa, and everything else she did to persuade him to come to the gym with a gun.
I hope that soon enough I get my gym to be in peace again, and have my family go back to normal. I miss my boys, and this is a nightmare.
Below you will see the text message from Fabianna to my sister and to my brother in law the day Thiago Silva went to our school and threatened us.
