MMA-Sportsman

That foot was busted and if Palhares wouldn't get finished the way he did he certainly wouldn't come back for the second round.
The thing I find intriguing is: If my foot was busted and hurting like hell and the only thing I had were ridiculously strong arms like Palhares, I would at least throw vicious punches hoping for the best everytime Lombard would closed that distance until the end of the round. It worked beyond expectations for Franklin and his broken arm against Chuck.
Lombard had nothing coming from Palhares then it was a matter of time to pick him apart and put him away.
I think this evidences even more the lack of versatility of Palhares. He is still unable to adapt at this point of his career. He forgot he had arms that could at least take him to the end of the round and chose desperation road instead - through the cliff.

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El Bresko

it's hard to throw vicious punches when you can't plant your feet properly

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Soojooko

... or maybe because he's just plain rubbish?

MMA-Sportsman

You are right. Maybe "vicious" would relate better to a landed punch anyway. What I should have said instead was "wild" punches.

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TheLyotoLegion

Broken foot or not he had nothing for Lombard, he looked defeated before the fight even started.

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Soojooko

Yea... I have to agree. I love Paul as a character. He brings me lots of lol. But over the years it's become clearly obvious ( to me ) that he's a bit shit. His supposed awesome BJJ has amounted to what? The list of guys he's submitted reads like some grimy smears at the bottom of a barrel.

Life B Ez

Explains why he never shot and tried for a leg.

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Danm2501

Palhares is frustrating. He's a straight killer. His Jiu Jitsu is vicious, and he has the wrestling good enough to be able to get a lot of dudes to the mat. There's that video on the net of him rolling, and mauling Mayhem, pre-Mayhem's woeful UFC performances and breakdown. Mayhem is seen as one of those dudes that's very hard to takedown, and even harder to submit, but Palhares handled him like a child, and easily submitted him.

Harris has incredible ability, the issue comes with his fight smarts. His fight IQ is one of the worst in MMA, and once he feels he's losing a fight he gives up. It was showcased mainly against Marquardt. Went for the leg, thought that like Drwal and Linhares he was just going to give in and have his knee wrecked, when that didn't occur, and the unthinkable happened, Marquardt escaped, Paul Harris cries to the ref, and gets himself punched in the face, really hard. Also, in the Belcher fight, he was expecting to dominate on the ground, but when Belcher showcased his dominance and continually escaped the leg locks, Palhares immediately gave up, and got TKO'd.

It's not a lack of ability, Palhares is one hell of a fighter, it's his mentality that's the issue, and I think that's unlikely to ever change. Despite having the ability, he'll never be a champion.

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That's the perfect description of Palhares and because of all these great assets he possesses, Murilo Bustamante still believes he could develop his fight IQ and also get rid of his insecurity when the plan does not go exactly like expected.

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Killz

I like when he jumped on the cage in the middle of the miller fight. That's my favourite Palharres memory.

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