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Video: Monstrous Rousimar Palhares Massively Misses Weight

Rousimar Palhares came in massively overweight for his latest match.

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Rousimar Palhares massively missed weight for his latest bout.

We already knew Palhares was absolutely huge. The hulking, controversial grappler has confirmed that. Palhares missed weight by an alarming margin for his headliner against Craig Jones at today’s Kasai Pro 3 in New York.

The fight was originally slated to be a 185-pound no-gi grappling match. It was changed to a 200-pound bout due to Palhares stating he could only make that weight. “Toquinho” appeared overly massive on social media last week.

That wasn’t the end of his issues, however.

The fight moved on with at an openweight when Palhares weighed in at 218 pounds. Jones, meanwhile, was 13.4 pounds lighter than his opponent. The bout is a submission-only match-up that lasts 10 minutes. Confusion arose when Palhares told MMA Fighting he thought the fight had no weight limit.

Jones agreed to proceed. Kasai officials also told MMA Fighting that a communication problem with Palhares’ team lead to the confusion.

Watch the weigh-in from Flo Grappling here:

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Pic: Rousimar Palhares Is Legitimately Monstrous

Rousimar Palhares is looking like a comic book supervillain.

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Former World Series of Fighting (WSOF) welterweight champion Rousimar Palhares is huge.

The disgraced and controversial grappling wiz has seen better days in his MMA career. “Toquinho” has lost three of his last five fights by T/KO. He’ll return to compete in his beloved grappling soon when he meets rising star Craig Jones at KASAI Pro 3.

When he does, it appears that the hulking Brazilian will be bigger than ever. This photo recently surfaced on social media of Palhares looking simply massive:

The leglock specialist revealed he weighs 212 pounds, telling MMA Fighting he isn’t concerned with all the hate he expectedly received:

“People say whatever they want to try to diminish your work, so that doesn’t bother me at all.”

Palhares was infamously released from WSOF after he eye gouged Jake Shields and held onto a kimura for too long. He’s been fighting overseas ever since.

He’s planning to stop cutting down to welterweight due to the fact his results have been less than stellar recently. Palhares said the weight cut was nearly killing him.

The photo shown above would support that theory.

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Former Bellator Contender Arrested For Murder

Former Bellator contender and Olympic medalist Alexis Vila has been charged with second-degree murder, MMA Fighting’s Marc Raimondi reports. Vila, who’s perhaps best known for knocking out former Bellator featherweight champion Joe Warren in a minute back in 2011, was arrested on April 17 in Miami on murder, conspiracy and weapons charges. Authorities say a […]

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Former Bellator contender and Olympic medalist Alexis Vila has been charged with second-degree murder, MMA Fighting’s Marc Raimondi reports.

Vila, who’s perhaps best known for knocking out former Bellator featherweight champion Joe Warren in a minute back in 2011, was arrested on April 17 in Miami on murder, conspiracy and weapons charges. Authorities say a warrant for Vila’s arrest was issued on March 29.

Vila defected from his native Cuba to Florida back in 1997 and ran into trouble a few years later when he drove his car through a Fort Lauderdale Airport terminal in 2004. Vila served three years in prison for it and began his professional MMA a career shortly thereafter.

The 47-year-old is being held at Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center and has a pending hold by ICE for immigration.

Vila is an Olympic medalist in wrestling from 1996 and competed at bantamweight and flyweight for promotions like Bellator and World Series of Fighting. The Cuban holds a 15-7 record in MMA and last fought in 2016.

No details have arisen on the circumstances behind Vila’s arrest and the Olympian has only been charged as of now, not convicted.

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Video: Rousimar Palhares Gets Brutally Knocked Out Again

Disgraced former UFC competitor and World Series of Fighting (WSOF) welterweight champion Rousimar Palhares continues to have trouble finding success in his fighting career outside the United States. Earlier today (March 30, 2018) ‘Paul Harris’ faced off with undefeated Aliaskhab Khizriev for the interim title at Fight Nights Global 85 in Russia, and the result was […]

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Disgraced former UFC competitor and World Series of Fighting (WSOF) welterweight champion Rousimar Palhares continues to have trouble finding success in his fighting career outside the United States.

Earlier today (March 30, 2018) ‘Paul Harris’ faced off with undefeated Aliaskhab Khizriev for the interim title at Fight Nights Global 85 in Russia, and the result was another brutal loss for the controversial Brazilian jiu-jitsu specialist. Only Khizriev could win the belt, however, as the always controversial Palhares missed weight.

Khizriev dropped Palhares with a head kick early and followed him to the ground with a relentless onslaught of punches, but true to form Palhares responded with his trademark leglock attempts, tying up his opponent in an awkward position. He even went for a takedown attempt but was put into a fight-ending spot when he slipped as Khizriev rained down a final torrent of ground shots to leave Palhares cold on the mat only 58 seconds into the fight.

It was the disgraced submission wiz’s third knockout loss in his last five fights after being released from WSOF for holding onto a kimura on Jake Shields.

Watch the highlights of Palhares’ latest defeat here:

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The UFC Needs To Sign Nick Newell

The UFC is home to many of the top mixed martial artists in the world. The promotion is constantly looking to bring in new talent to its organization, and one of the fighters the UFC should be looking to sign is none other than Nick Newell. The man the…

The UFC is home to many of the top mixed martial artists in the world. The promotion is constantly looking to bring in new talent to its organization, and one of the fighters the UFC should be looking to sign is none other than Nick Newell. The man they call “Notorious” on Friday night submitted […]

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Former WSOF Star Nick Newell Ends Retirement, Signs with LFA

Nick Newell, who made headlines with an incredible run in the World Series of Fighting, has ended his retirement. Newell signed with Legacy Fighting Alliance, ending a two-year absence from the sport. A congenital amputee, Newell (13-1) won five of six fights with the WSOF, falling only to current UFC lightweight contender Justin Gaethje for […]

Nick Newell, who made headlines with an incredible run in the World Series of Fighting, has ended his retirement. Newell signed with Legacy Fighting Alliance, ending a two-year absence from the sport. A congenital amputee, Newell (13-1) won five of six fights with the WSOF, falling only to current UFC lightweight contender Justin Gaethje for […]