Palhares comments on submission issue

Brazilian Top Team fighter Rousimar Palhares has commented on the issue of holding onto submissions too long.

Palhares has been accused of this in his past fights, but the Brazilian has now defended not letting go of the submission hold until the referee steps in.

He told Fighters Only Magazine: “Murilo [Bustamante] always told me to wait until the referee stops the fight. He had problems with [fake taps] in the past and Anderson almost had the same problem in his last fight.

“Its not that I want to hurt anyone but I am trying to be fast with my submissions so the referee needs to be fast as well, to stop the fight. My opinion is that the referee in my last fight was too far away and took too long to stop the fight. If he had been closer then he could have stopped it right away and then we would not even be having this conversation at all!”