This paper aims to analyze how teachers (masters) and former fighters modalities fights and martial arts have their memories about the early days of practice that became known as "Vale-tudo" in Curitiba. Through theoretical procedures of Oral History was observed that the memorials fragments analyzed are not restricted to the interpretation of the origins of this practice, they are also traversed by discourses relating to the process of identity construction and constant tests of manhood. We conclude that memory established and this ethos has male violence as a central element - concrete and symbolic - that accompanies the formation of fighter.