Broken Leg Forces Palhares Out of UFC 101 Matchup With Sakara
Rousimar Palhares
A broken tibia suffered during a recent wrestling session has forced Rousimar Palhares (9-2) out of his scheduled matchup with Alessio Sakara (17-7), which was to take place on August 29th at UFC 101 in Philadelphia.
According to InTheGuard.tv, who first reported the injury citing the Portugese ITGFightTalk radio show, Palhares will be out for at least 60 days.
Palhares joined the UFC in 2008 following a 7-1 start to his career and has gone 2-1 inside the octagon, defeating Ivan Salaverry in his May debut and most recently scored a victory over Jeremy Horn in January, while his only loss came to Dan Henderson last September.
Sakara is 4-4 with one no contest in nine bouts inside the octagon. Sakara dropped down to middleweight from light heavyweight following a 3-3 start to his UFC career, but suffered a first-round TKO to Chris Leben last March at UFC 82 in his debut at the new weight class. In his most recent bout, “Legionarius” earned his first win at 185-pounds with a first-round knockout of Joe Vedepo at UFC Fight Night 15 last July.
The UFC is currently seeking a replacement to meet Sakara on the UFC 101 card.
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Tags: Alessio Sakara, rousimar palhares
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MAN THIS SUCKS.. GET WELL SOON TOQUINHO
How is Sakara still in the UFC? Any time a UFC Ultimate KO or Unleashed comes on all you see is him gettin his ass kicked. With the UFC letting go of so many fighters last week i would have thought he would have been one of them.
Indeed. The only “name” he’s beaten is Elvis Sinocic, and even he sucks. Maybe they’re trying to reach out to the Italian market.
Since 2006 he hasn’t lost back to back fights, so, usually you need to lose back to back to get cut.
Yeah, but he SUCKS. Two people said so.
good news for sakara
damn, I was really looking forward to seeing palhares live. That matchup was just about a lock for sub of the night.
That sucks for Palhares, he can be a force @ MW probably 2010 at the earliest but never the less he does have some excellent skills and now he has be set back by breaking his leg, truly unfortunate…..