SCRAPP! FIGHT MAGAZINE
August - 2015
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follow suit. Simply put, Rousimar Pal-
hares should never again fight in a major
MMA promotion. He has had his three
strikes, more in fact. While the small
promotion is no doubt loathe to release
a fighter with name value, it has to be
done — and the competition, be it Bel-
lator MMA or ONE FC, need to show
restraint and decline to sign the fighter.
Yes, some local promotion will no doubt
latch on to him, but Rousimar Palhares’
days of MMA relevance need to be cut
short, before someone’s career is.
So the WSOF must strip Palhares. It won’t
be easy, and they’re no doubt compar-
ing the situation to the UFC and Jon
Jones, who was stripped of the title at
the peak of his reign, but not terminated.
That said, Jones damage was done out-
side the cage, not in it. In the case of Pal-
hares, the two are intimately connected,
so if he cannot control his actions, then
the WSOF (and the MMA community as
a whole) must remove the platform that
makes it possible for Palhares to get into
these situations.
If you want, present it as saving
him from himself, but do not let
him fight again.
