"During the fight, my kick was working well, but soon in the first round, one of my kicks hit Lombard's shin below his knee. I heard a snap, and I knew something bad happened."
Don't kick Hector Lombard! Two fights in a row, Lombard's opponents have broken a foot on his legs. Tank. More due to them both having poor technique, but still.
I get really annoyed when I think people are making excuses but things like this that are directly resulting from what happens in the fight don't really count as excuses in my eyes.
I knew it, I remember during the fight Paul Harris threw a nasty leg kick but it looked like it landed wrong on Hector leg (looked like it hit his knee) and I could see the split sec wince given by Palhares.
Either way, Hector was probably the worse match up for Palhares, crazy TDD, good sub defense, and explosive standup.
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.
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.
Yeah I feel the same way. I thought he was an overall better fighter and the hick ups were just that, but at one point you have to think ok maybe I was wrong about him. Still fun to watch though and that GIF will be forever hilarious
Palhares can be fixed he isn't damaged beyond repair but I think he really needs to get some proper guidance under the nogueira brothers and training partners at blackhouse too, his gameplans aren't great and when his leg locks don't come off it's over for him mentally and you may as well count the fight over for him, he could have beat belcher and hendo and marquardt and lombard if he wasn't so lacking of self esteem that the only way he could win a fight is by leglock.
I don't doubt Lombard would have won either way, but at least this explains how bad Palhares looked.
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